AIC truly puts the ‘IN’ in Indiana

Last week CORE had the privilege of attending the Association of Indiana Counties (AIC) annual conference in South Bend. With over 500 participants, it was a wonderful opportunity to connect with old friends and make some new ones. We were equally impressed with how well the show was organized by the AIC team in terms … Read more

What is a Virtual Terminal For Credit Card Processing? Everything You Need To Know

Virtual Terminal

The world of payment processing is shifting every day. With each new technological advance, merchants must accommodate the growing number of payment methods. Finding a credit card processing system that accepts all major credit cards and mobile payments while keeping costs down can be challenging. That’s where virtual terminal payment processing comes in. A virtual … Read more

What Are Recurring Payments and Why Should Your Business Have Them?

What Is A Recurring Payment

Many customers prefer to pay their bills on an automated, predictable schedule. If your business does not offer this level of automatic and recurring payments to ensure a customer-centric experience, this article presents the basics of what recurring payments are, how they work, and the benefits they offer to your business and your customers.  What … Read more

A Prescription for Improving the Hospital Pharmacy Revenue Cycle

Robbie and Shea at HCP22 Spring Conference

Hospital pharmacy revenue cycle management is more than easy payment processing and accurate reconciliation. It is critical for reporting patient prescription dispense as directed under legal, industry, and business compliance regulations.  Last month, Robbie Niedergall, Senior Vice President, Sales; Pierre Dupuis, VP Strategic Accounts & Channels; and I met with hospital pharmacy professionals at HCP22 Spring … Read more

The Utility of Exhibiting at CS Week

Operating a utility adds layers of complexity that can be daunting for local governments. One especially complex layer? Customer engagement. An online payment platform that lacks ease of use, delivers suboptimal EBPP, and needs more merchant services options results in less customer engagement, lost revenue, and weakened reputation. It thus made sense for CORE to … Read more

All’s Well That’s Sourcewell

Sourcewell Cooperative Purchasing

An RFP is not fun for anybody to respond to. It is not fun to develop either. More than a time-consuming document to write, it is a time-consuming process. Under increasing pressure to achieve goals and reduce costs, oftentimes, RFPs require more time to create, process, and manage. On the other hand, cooperative purchasing agreements … Read more

How Can Automated Payment Reconciliation Help Your Revenue Management?

Man doing manual payment reconciliation

Cash flow is the lifeblood of any organization. Accurate record-keeping on your end only goes so far because there may be errors on your bank’s end or extra fees or taxes that are more difficult to track and manage.   Payment reconciliation can help make sense of your organization’s accounts payable and receivable operations. Here’s your … Read more

What Is a Payment Facilitator?

credit card payment facilitator abstract

Payment facilitators make it faster, cheaper, and easier to process payments. Find out more about how using a payment facilitator can:  Help you avoid the piles of paperwork otherwise required to open a merchant account  Reduce your risk and liability around fraud and chargebacks  What Is a Payments Facilitator?  A payment facilitator, also known as … Read more

How Does Payment Processing Work? 

Close up of card payment between customer and bartender in cafe

While the credit card transaction process may seem to take place instantaneously, a lot happens behind the scenes to ensure the payment is accurate and delivered on time.  Discover who is involved in each step of the credit card transaction process and how payment processing works.  Who Is Involved? The customer and merchant aren’t the … Read more

Increase time-to-payment and overall collections with the right automation

The manual processing of invoices is slow and manually-tasking: from the moment they arrive they need to be processed, coded and submitted for approval before being manually entered into the system-of-record or ERP system. Data entry errors are common and invoices easily misplaced or overlooked. It’s no surprise that invoice processing remains a manual process … Read more