T3 delivers IP transport solutions designed around the payment card transaction industry. Whether it is for payment approval and settlement routing from a merchant location to a designated payment processor or more sophisticated transaction handling, formatting and message translation solutions, T3 delivers all with speed, security and reliability. A hallmark of T3’s approach to transaction handling is flexibility. Flexibility that offers choice to the customer of payment processor, SSL and VPN encryption formats, entry device, payment types accepted and reporting. Flexibility translates to ease of implementation for the merchant, Value Added Resellers supporting the merchant and the Acquirer. In lieu of spending time and money on development and custom interfaces, T3 provides user options along with world class implementation support to help the user choose the best solution to fit the operating need. Pre installation testing is coordinated directly with T3. Similarly, should a new processing host be required, T3 will manage all implementation testing and certification.

Whether purely transport or transport with T3’s new Universal Message Format or re-formatting translation models, all transactions are managed within the T3 network architecture that is designed for IP transaction routing, service reliability beyond the 9’s and security of data at every point in the transaction routing chain.

Flexibility Advantage:  T3 maintains multiple managed connectivity links to major card processors. Depending upon the processor offering, connectivity may include host and/or terminal draft capture, support for multiple industries well beyond the traditional retail, hospitality, restaurant and mail order segments. If desired, users can implement T3’s Universal Message Format. Using a common input data stream that employs the management of name value pairs, T3 will direct the message to a designated host in the custom format required by the processor. T3’s Universal Message Format gives the user total flexibility to settle to multiple hosts without the need to develop custom interfaces for each.

Premier benefits of T3’s Flexibility Advantage include:

• Elimination of development costs to support new payment connections and services.
• Access to all existing payment connections supported by T3 without the need for custom development, resource allocation and lead time for implementation.
• Processor portabilitythat provides the acquirer options in choice of the processing host while minimizing quick to market obstacles.   T3  - hassle free processing with you in control.
• Strategic control for the acquirer and developer.  Unique identifiers within the format provide a digital suit of armor that prevents another acquirer or developer from pirating the merchant. 
• Custom Reporting options that transcend the traditional batch and deposit summary and detail information and allows the user to obtain data to more effectively manage the business.  Want to know the average number of transactions and ticket based on defined time tables across an 800 location merchant?  T3 can provide.   Want to know peak processing times? T3 can provide.  Positioned between the merchant and processor, T3 can peer into both sides of the transaction and build unique information models as defined by the user to help manage and grow business. 

Service Delivery:  T3 takes pride in every aspect of service delivery including network design and management, account set up, transaction processing, report preparation and delivery.  Customer Support is staffed by experts dedicated to the business of T3 which is the delivery of IP transport solutions for payment cards.  The Service Delivery team strives to make T3’s Customer Support telephone number obsolete.   But, should any customer or user need help, then only the highest quality of service will be provided.

Network Availability:  T3’s network availability, security, and customer service is SECOND TO NONE!  While we know you expect it and deserve it, more importantly, T3 considers it our job to make sure that is what you receive.   The goal is 100% - 100% of the time.