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5 Innovative ACH Payment Technology Trends for a Sustainable Digital Economy

June 22, 2020

By ICG Digital

Payment technology is transforming business processes across a multitude of verticals and industries. Industries themselves are evolving to become more technology driven, which boastsa variety of benefits. Not only are ACH payment solutions a green initiative—something many businesses are striving…

How to Protect Your Business When Taking Telephone Credit Card Transactions

June 20, 2020

By ICG Digital

When Alexander Graham Bell obtained his official telephone patent in 1876, there likely wasn’t a single person around who envisioned the communication device as an instrument of billions of dollars of commerce transactions. Yet, here we are, and that telephone…

Proper Authorization: CCD Transactions

February 15, 2017

By ICG Digital

Over the past few months, we have gone over the different ways businesses can conduct proper transactions across the ACH network through iCheckGateway.com: PPD Transactions (Prearranged Payment and Deposit Entries), TEL Entries (Telephone-Initiated Entries), and WEB Entries (Internet Initiated/Mobile Entries).…

TLS 1.2 Compliance

December 2, 2016

By ICG Digital

By now iCheckGateway.com's customers have received their billing statements along with a notice that, as of July 1, 2017, we are no longer supporting TLS 1.0 or 1.1 over HTTPS and that any older browsers or API clients that do…

Proper Authorization: WEB Transactions

October 27, 2016

By ICG Digital

The plastic poinsettias are already on shelves. Ornaments are now hanging in droves along the aisles. Red and green decorations have begun to flow across the store rows. Yep. Holiday shopping is already beckoning consumers to start buying. For those…

Proper Authorization: TEL Transactions

September 16, 2016

By ICG Digital

Previously, we established that the National Automated Clearing House Association has spelled out the guidelines requiring specific authorizations for online transactions across the ACH network (see Aug. 24 post). At first glance, the rules governing how authorization can be obtained…

Proper Authorization: PPD Transactions

August 24, 2016

By ICG Digital

As we’ve stated before (see July 12, 2016 post), the number of transactions across the ACH network has increased dramatically, even in the last year. But that’s not to say that these transactions can occur arbitrarily, without some oversight and…

Unauthorized Return Rates

July 12, 2016

By ICG Digital

To say the number of transactions occurring across the ACH Network is growing would be quite the understatement. According to the National Automated Clearing House Association, more than 5 million transactions occurred across the ACH Network in the first quarter…

Email Invoicing

November 17, 2015

By ICG Digital

Still mailing paper invoices to your customers through the good ole United States Postal Service? Here are some sobering numbers: >One ream of paper (500 sheets) can cost anywhere between 4 and 7 dollars >A 500-count box of business envelopes…

Make Your Accounts Receivables Department Happy with IVR

October 13, 2015

By ICG Digital

Accounts Receivable: a claim against a debtor, carried on open account, usually limited to debts due from the sale of goods and services (from dictionary.com) It’s a given: a business offers a product or service, compensation must be collected from the…