National Processing Company - Credit Card Processing & Merchant Services -  Category Main Page 

The company, with $480 million in sales, provides credit card processing and merchant services to a wide array of customers in virtually every industry, including retailers, supermarkets, quick service and full service restaurants, petroleum and convenience stores, hospitality, and e-commerce. National Processing is the second largest provider of merchant card processing services in the United States.  The company's website is www.npc.net.

In 2003, National Processing Company processed 4.3 billion transactions, including approximately one out of every five Visa® and MasterCard ® transactions in the United States.  NPC provides a diversified product mix to meet a wide range of customer needs, including:
• Processing of all credit card types
• Authorization and settlement accounting

• Chargeback prevention and handling
• Point of Sale (POS) hardware and software
• Merchant reporting
• Electronic Benefits Transfer processing (EBT)
• On-line and off-line debit card acquiring
• Customized reporting formats and data management
 

National Processing Company currently operates two business segments, Merchant Card Services and Payment Services. Payment Services was formerly a component of the Company’s Corporate Outsourcing Solutions segment. This segment was renamed Payment Services in 2001 after the sale of the Business Process Outsourcing (“BPO”) unit, which was also formerly a component of the Company’s Corporate Outsourcing Solutions segment. Payment Services provides financial settlement and reporting solutions to large and mid-size corporate customers in the travel and healthcare industries.  Merchant Card Services authorizes, processes, and performs financial settlement and reporting of card transactions, including credit and debit card transactions. 

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