You have probably seen them everywhere – hanging by the cash registers at Home Depot, Macy’s, and K-Mart or those signs at your table at Pizzeria Uno and TGI Fridays. They are electronic gift cards and loyalty cards. The country’s largest retailers and chain restaurants have been using and heavily promoting them for the past few years. In fact, the largest selling single item for over 80% of the top 100 retailers in the United States is their gift card. Now is the time for you, the small to medium sized retailer and independently owned restaurateurs to grasp the opportunity and start your own program. It will look and work exactly like the big guys program, except yours will be designed with a price that you can surely afford.

Credit Card Processing Services, an expert in merchant accounts has teamed up with Valutec Card Solutions and ProfitPoint which are the leading providers and processors of gift and loyalty cards in the country. Both are renowned for maintaining the most state of the art real-time gift card processing networks and backing them up with superb customer support. Ours is a completely turnkey program since we can handle every aspect of your program including card design and production, terminal programming, staff training, program promotion, and card processing.

We are ready to assist you in starting your gift and /or loyalty card program from scratch and will hold your hand through implementation and beyond. We have designed this website to help answer most of the questions you will have since your business is probably new to this. Once you read each of the pages that interest you please feel free to contact Kevin at CCPS at 215-489-7878, toll-free at 800-717-1245, via Email or completing our online Inquiry Form to answer any of your questions or to begin your own program.

The Valutec and ProfitPoint programs run on many of the most popular credit card POS systems. Please click in the Equipment Supported button on the left for the complete list.

The benefits to you, the merchant, are many:

1. Paper vs Plastic – Experience has shown that plastic gift certificate sales increase an average of 35% over current paper certificate programs. Also, customers spend more with plastic with average sales about 40% more than paper.
   
2. Will enhance your business’ professional image. Puts you on a level playing field with the major chains that already have this type of program in place.
   
3. Carrying a plastic card with your logo in their wallet is like having a mini billboard in your customers’ hands every day.
   
4. Increases profitability – No cash back is given with gift cards, if you desire.
   
5. You will benefit from the float since you have the funds until the card is redeemed.
   
6. Experience shows that 5-15% of gift card values are never redeemed. This fact can pay for your program by itself.
   
7. Reduces theft potential since cards have no value until activated unlike paper gift certificates that are usually kept under lock and key.
   
8. Has been shown to reduce shoplifting when a policy to put refunds without a receipt on a gift/stored value card. Discourages stealing and then asking the cashier for cash back. Many national chains have developed this as store policy.
   
9. You can view and print real-time activity reports from your PC, will receive monthly reports via email, plus you will get daily reports from your terminal.
   
10. Ease of issuance and redemption – employees just need to swipe the card through the terminal to load or redeem value on the card, which only takes seconds.
    
11. Having a successful loyalty program in place means more visits by your current customer base that may mean that you can reduce advertising costs to attract new customers since tables are already filled. Also, if you are using coupons such as buy 1 get 1 free then you are giving up much more in profits then if you were to reward loyal customers with a free appetizer after spending $100.00 in previous visits. As you know, Client Retention is one of the most important aspects of your business and of course it is much more expensive to find new customers then to keep your existing ones coming back again and again.

Now that you know about this great program, you are probably ready to take that extra step. So please fill out the I Want More Info form on the left and Kevin will contact you to discuss your needs.