Electronic Funds Transfer Canada

Canada EFT Processing – Providing a convenient and cost effective solution for managing Canadian EFT or eCheck transactions.

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Electronic Funds Transfer Canada allows Canadian based businesses the ability to debit checking accounts for one-time or recurring payments. In the US there are many providers that offer an ACH processing solution. For Electronic Funds Transfer Canada  your options are much more limited as a small number of banks control the payments landscape. It can often be difficult to gain access to the Electronic Funds Transfer Canada capabilities.

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EFT by Agile Payments

Electronic Funds Transfer Canada gives Canadian companies the power to debit checking accounts, making it easier to collect one-time and recurring payments. In the US, there are a number of providers that provide an ACH processing solution. Well, for Electronic Funds Transfer in Canada, you literally have no options. Five banks dominate our payments system. However, it can be a hassle to obtain the Electronic Funds Transfer Canada functionality.

By partnering with Agile Payments you can offer your clients a seamless, simple-to-implement solution. You’ll be able to electronically debit or credit Canadian bank accounts with ease! This leads to incredible savings in time and money devoted to the collection of payment. Note: It is important to note that in contrast to credit cards cross border payments are not available meaning funds are collected and settled in the same denomination. So for a US company wanting to debit Canada customers, they would need to maintain a Canadian bank account to settle funds into. Integrating Electronic Funds Transfer Canada or Canada EFT processing as a stand alone or in conjunction with US ACH processing offers SaaS platforms a way to automate the payment collection and reconciliation process. A single platform to access both U.S. Canadian eCheck transactions and reporting data for reconciliation is a powerful customer acquisition tool as well as a payment revenue generator For SaaS platforms initiating recurring payments or one-time payments from your application you make your end users business life more efficient and profitable as well as make your app more valuable.

Key Benefits and Features of our Electronic Funds Transfer Canada Platform

  • Better cash flow management and forecasting capabilities. When you know your business has other reliable predictable cash flow coming in the planning becomes a whole lot easier and a whole lot less stressful.
  • Less operating expense related to collecting/ writing cheques, manual data entry and time spent reconciling accounts. Go ask someone who works in the collections process how much fun it is to pick up the phone to call someone you need to ask for payment.
  • Speed up your payables cycle and take control over when credits/debits post to your bank account. Once more business planning gets a whole lot easier.
  • Get alert for denied payments. Most often, you need to address payment rejections by hand. This is particularly relevant when trying to work with a bank’s Canadian EFT capabilities. Frequently these can take a week or more to get a determination back on.
  • Prevent lost and stolen cheques. Most importantly, by moving money electronically you mitigate the risk of paper cheques being misplaced or even stolen.
  • Reduce the incidence of cheque fraud and forgery risk. Once more risk is lowered and mitigated with the use of less paper cheques.
  • Maintain the flexibility of your operating businesses but centralize visibility and control of dollars. Automation and systems is the magic sauce to achieving that explosive, scalable growth. An automated Canadian EFT solution A significant business development boon
  • Minimize service charges paid by employees and banks. Not only are lost bank trips a huge bottom line drag on your business but paying per check fees are as well. A Canada ACH solution takes care of these repetitive and time-consuming steps manually while keeping you compliant.
  • Sophisticated Payment Deposit Reconciliation tools allows you to reconcile payments deposits directly in your payment reporting suite. The ACH API provider majority do not provide this deep level of reporting visibility either.

Canadians ACH Integration creates a new avenue for SaaS platforms. This powerful integration goes beyond providing a more useful and engaging solution for end-users. It opens up new revenue opportunities.

On-Boarding

In fact for many organizations the on-boarding process is almost a make-or-break tunnel. It might not be enough for just you to offer ACH integration as an option. Many organizations like to have their own “white label” on-boarding process. In this configuration, the third party ACH processor remains behind the scenes. It is essential for the EFT integration to provide the organization an easy method to transmit their participating merchant’s information into the EFT or ACH processor’s underwriting department. Better yet, this should all be done electronically, signatures included.

The Electronic Funds Transfer Canada API should enable application and underwriting process to look integrated on their website, in addition to making the ACH payments solution look like it’s coming directly from them. Finally, it must pass the underwriting decision data back to the third-party processor, notify everyone involved with the application of its status, and issue API credentials to the applicant when the merchant application has been approved and enrolled. For example, when an API access method is needed by a SaaS application, sometimes the merchant will directly input API credentials. In other cases, the SaaS org manages the API credential input process for the merchant. It really just depends on which Canadian ACH integration path the SaaS business selected.