Payments Gateway and Striata are proud to announce their new partnership to offer an enhanced e-mail billing solution. Payments Gateway provides a flexible, reliable and cost-effective tool for automating and managing payment processing functions for thousands of organisations throughout North America.
The addition of Striata Email Billing and Striata Secure Document Delivery enables Payments Gateway to offer a powerful electronic presentment solution to complement its robust and mature payments capability. As a result, the partnership has won its first client, Allegheny County.
Allegheny County: Department of the Treasurer (Pennsylvania, USA), selected the Striata - Payments Gateway partnership to securely deliver residential property tax bills via e-mail. Allegheny County customers now have the opportunity to receive their e-mail bills directly into verified e-mail inboxes. Bills can also be viewed on any e-mail capable mobile device such as the BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, etc.
“I am pleased to offer this valuable service the county residents that will help reduce our carbon footprint, save our environment and make Allegheny County a truly greener government,” says Treasurer John Weinstein. “This convenient, efficient and environmentally friendly billing option and payment service will also reduce the overall cost of county government.”
Garin Toren, Striata Chief Operating Officer, says: "Payments Gateway is an ideal Striata partner. Their core payments processing strengths, in conjunction with Striata's unique e-mail delivery solutions, create a customer experience that will be hard to match in this geography. Our immediate success with Allegheny County bodes very well for our future together."
By partnering with electronic payment providers, Striata enables its proprietary BillPay solution. The solution sets being incorporated into this partnership include: Striata Email Billing, Striata Secure Document Delivery, Striata BillPay, Striata eConsent, Striata Email Authentication and Striata Email Collection Services. Payments Gateway is geared to become a significant reseller of Striata's products and services.
“We're very excited to add Striata's unique bill presentment solutions to our broad array of payment processing solutions,” says Jeff Thorness, Payments Gateway Chief Executive Officer.
“By enabling our payment processing capabilities directly within Striata's bill presentment solutions, we can provide our joint customers with a solution that can significantly improve their cash flow.”
Striata securely delivers the e-mail bill with payment functionality embedded directly within the bill itself, thus allowing simple, secure payment with just a single click, all without the need to link back to any Web site. This results in radical improvement in time to pay.
“Striata utility, insurance, telco and government clients in North America have all seen Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) reductions in excess of 30% and in many cases as high as 55%. One of our large utility clients in Colorado recently saw payment speed reduced from 44 days, on average through paper billing and their Web site, to nine days with its Striata solution,” says Toren.
In addition to dramatically faster payments, a critical result of delivering bills and statements via e-mail is paper turn off. The Striata eConsent process allows billers to gain paper suppression consent from their consumers, with just one simple click from within the body of an authenticated e-mail. In addition, Striata adoption specialists will work with the Payments Gateway team to drive fast, cost-efficient and accurate e-mail address collection with their clients.
"Turning off the physical mailing and gaining the associated cost savings, in a way that drives maximum customer satisfaction, is a key goal for all billers in 2011. Striata and Payments Gateway's unique solution set, which speeds up clients' payment processes and increases annual paper suppression, just cannot be beat in the marketplace today," concludes Toren.
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Striata
Striata revolutionises the way bills, statements, policies, collection notices, letters, paystubs and other high volume system-generated documents are delivered and paid. Registration requirements are eliminated by e-mailing feature-rich, interactive, encrypted documents directly to the inbox and enabling innovative 1-click electronic payment from within the document itself.
Direct e-mail delivery of bills and statements dramatically increases customer adoption of electronic documents, paper turn off and e-payments. This enables Striata's clients to achieve rapid ROI; complement their existing self-service and e-communication strategies; significantly reduce paper output; and meet their carbon footprint/environmental impact targets.
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As a leading international provider of electronic messaging since 1999 with more than 200 blue chip customers, Striata has operations in New York, London, Sydney, Hong Kong, Johannesburg and partners across the globe.
Payments Gateway
At Payments Gateway we understand how critical payments are to any organisation, which drives us to develop and continually evolve one the most popular and innovative payment processing solutions on the market. Payments Gateway provides organisations of all types and sizes a flexible, reliable and cost-effective tool for automating and managing their payment processing functions.
The role of Payments Gateway continues to expand as we strive to provide customers with first-class performance and reliability, secure and compliant payments, adaptive technologies, a broad array of solutions including a complete range of payment types, and competitive transparent pricing with no surprises.
From credit cards to electronic cheques, point-of-sale to the Internet, or payments via phone or fax, Payments Gateway is the only payment processor your business will ever need. Organisations can work directly with Payments Gateway and join the thousands of satisfied customers throughout North America which depend on Payments Gateway to process millions of transactions each and every month. Additional information about Payments Gateway can be found at http://www.paymentsgateway.com.
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