Merchant Link and MSI Team Up to Provide Cutting-Edge Payments Solution for Hospitality Sector

SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Merchant Link, a leader in the secure payments gateway market that works with some of the world's largest retail, lodging and restaurant merchants, and MSI (Multi-Systems, Inc.), a leading hospitality industry supplier of hotel technology and property management systems (PMS), have announced a partnership that will add a high-speed payments gateway and high-touch support as well as comprehensive reporting capabilities to MSI's property management system.

Through the partnership, MSI's customers – more than 4,500 hotels and resorts across the U.S. – will enjoy the benefits of the Merchant Link Gateway^TM:

• A secure, cloud-based, high-speed payments network reducing cost and effort to achieve PCI compliance;
• Expanded choice and flexibility of payment processors;
• Elimination of processor pass-through fees for American Express, saving a hotel up to $.20 per AMEX transaction;
• Merchant Link's industry-leading "One-Call-Solves-All" technical and help desk support to assist customers with any issue regardless of where it occurs within the transaction life cycle; and
• Robust, web-based enterprise reporting that provides a consolidated view of all credit card activity throughout the property.

As a result, MSI is providing a comprehensive way for its customers to control costs and manage credit card processing more efficiently. The integration also includes Place Point, MSI's innovative point-of-sale system that integrates with MSI's WinPM property management solutions.

"We are excited to now offer a high-speed payments gateway solution that is integrated with our world-class property management system," said Tim Tiller, President, MSI.  "Thanks to our partnership with Merchant Link, we are able to provide next-generation transaction solutions that streamline the credit card payments process for our hospitality clients."

"MSI is a true technology leader for the hospitality sector and we are very excited about our partnership," said Dan Lane, Chief Technology Officer, Merchant Link.  "We look forward to collaborating and developing an integrated solution that brings added value when it comes to payment processes for MSI's deep base of hospitality clients."

Merchant Link is also a leading provider of transaction security solutions including TransactionVault®, a next-generation tokenization technology that removes customer credit card data from merchants' systems and stores it in a secure, hosted "vault," as well as an innovative new end-to-end encryption offering.

About Multi-Systems, Inc.

Serving the hospitality industry since 1990, MSI (Multi-Systems, Inc.) is a leading supplier of hotel technology and property management software solutions. With an installed customer base of nearly 4,500 hotels and resorts throughout North America, MSI is one of the largest privately-held providers of fully-integrated property management, sales, marketing and catering, point of sale, web booking, and centralized corporate services. MSI specializes in "total system solutions" for management companies and hotel chains by providing central reservation and property system integration. For more information on MSI, visit www.msisolutions.com.

About Merchant Link

Merchant Link is a leading payments gateway company, providing PCI compliance, secure solutions, data transport services and comprehensive technology to merchants, software providers and credit card processors.  Merchant Link currently supports more than 150,000 hotels, restaurants, retail stores, and other venues, and maintains connectivity to the major US payment card processors.  Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Silver Spring, Md., Merchant Link handles more than 3 billion transactions for some of the world's best-known merchants.  Merchant Link's tokenization solution, TransactionVault®, removes the risk of data compromises and reduces a merchant's efforts to attain and maintain PCI compliance.

Further information is available at www.merchantlink.com.

SOURCE Merchant Link