Frequently Asked Questions
What Is It?
Payment Boss is a total online solution for accepting and processing payments through your 3G enabled cell phone. Payment Boss automatically sends an e-receipt to your customer once payment has been confirmed and provides you with a simple web interface to track and manage your mobile phone payments in real time.
Back to TopHow Much Is It?
Its cheap! Payment Boss is a total online solution for accepting payments through your 3G enabled cell phone that you subscribe to for $9.95 a month. For less than $10 a month you will be able to accept payments on your cell phone, manage and track your payments in real-time, reconcile your payments with your merchant account as well as share your payment data with your Accountant/Bookkeeper.
Back to TopWho Is It For?
Payment Boss was designed for anyone who wants to be able to get paid anywhere and anytime – as long as they have their cell phone and a merchant account, they can get paid. Its that simple!
Back to TopWhat Can I Do With It?
You can:
- Accept and Process payments via your 3G enabled cell phone
- Reconcile your payments against your merchant account
- Track and manage payments in real time
- Share your payment information with your Accountant/Bookkeeper
- Automatically update your customer list with new customers that you accept payments from
- Consolidate your online and mobile payments into one merchant account for easier cash flow management and tracking
- Process Canadian and US dollar transactions into your Canadian and/or US dollar merchant account
Back to TopCan I use any merchant account?
No. Check with your payment processor to see if your merchant account supports card not present transactions or online transactions. If not, apply for a new merchant account with Sage
Back to TopIs My Data Safe?
Payment Boss uses industry standard 128K bit SSL encryption to ensure that your client transactions are safe and secure. Your data is hosted in a state of the art data centre that ensures that your privacy and billing transactions are safe and secure.
Back to TopWhy Should I use Payment Boss?
Simple. Its cheaper than renting a mobile terminal from your merchant account provider, it’s the only tool that provides real time transaction tracking and the only mobile phone payment processing tool that gives you a history of who paid you, how much and when so that you can reconcile that against your merchant account to ensure that all your payments are showing up and that if you have any chargebacks – you can find out who did it.
Back to TopHow can I share my data with my Accountant/Bookkeeper?
Sharing data with your Accountant/Bookkeeper is easy! Just login to your account at
www.paymentboss.com, click on the Share data tab, enter your Accountant/Bookkeepers email address and click send – Voila! All done! Your Accountant/Bookkeeper will receive an email inviting them to set up an account and when they click View Data, they will be able to view your payment transactions.
Back to TopAm I locked into a contract with Payment Boss?
Nope! Payment Boss is billed on a monthly basis – you can cancel anytime you want, but why would you? For less than $10 a month you can get paid anywhere, anytime!