International Consulting

There’s an acquiring dilemma that’s not going away. It’s surrounded by oceans of closed doors, unfamiliar rules and regulations and barricaded by dozens of foreign languages. It is the arena of international processing. Have you been caught up in it yet?

The Strawhecker Group is uniquely qualified to help you not only make a positive first step towards international processing but also get both feet firmly planted within its intimidating doors. Entering the international payments space doesn’t have to be limited to specialized niche acquirers or ISOs whose staff understand more than two languages. By taking advantage of our International Processing services, TSG will enable you to tackle the foreign space and come out on top.

Solving your revenue growth issues needs to be a forward-moving process, both strategically and tactically. When finely tuned, that process provides your acquiring program with significant competitive advantages—and that’s key to mastering international waters. When reviewing the international side of the revenue growth equation, you need to answer three simple planning questions:

• Where do you stand?
• Where do you want to go?
• What options will get you there?

Under our International Processing services, we define the perspective of where you stand in three parts – geography, industry and Internet. Geography is your area of use or existing acquiring region. Secondly, TSG looks at which area of the industry you specialize in and which ones will benefit from your international acquiring activities? Lastly, the Internet and card-not-present transactions may influence your acquiring program channels as it relates to your geographic location and the industries you focus on.

TSG’s International Processing services also helps you decide exactly where you want to go. Enabling your domestic merchants to sell internationally depends primarily on security and authentication solutions, payment types offered, multi-lingual support and increasingly, multi-currency. Our multi-decade years of experience and expertise in these areas will afford you the knowledge and understanding necessary to support international movement of your domestic merchants. TSG will review all pertinent options and assist you in implementing appropriate ones available to you and your processor.

Getting into the international payments space doesn’t have to be limited to the big boys or a few niche players. It only takes selecting the best pilot to successfully steer you across the international processing ocean. Be proactive in that selection.