Restaurant Credit Card Processing

Restaurant Merchant Accounts Processing credit cards in a restaurant environment typically combines the activity of both retail merchant accounts and mail order merchant accounts in that the credit card processing activity is distributed evenly between the point-of-sale activities conducted face to face within the restaurant and the manually keyed transactions resulting from delivery and take out. With a Restaurant Merchant Account, merchants will have the ability to accept credit cards, debit cards, and check cards and can also add other point of sale merchant services such as check guarantee, gift cards, value cards, and loyalty cards. To process these transactions, merchants can choose from a standard credit card terminal and printer combination or a fully integrated, multiple station Point-of-Sale (POS) System complete with touch screen, back office reporting and inventory control. These products can authorize credit cards via an analog telephone line, a digital phone line, a high-speed Ethernet cable or Wi-Fi for high traffic locations.

1st National’s Restaurant Merchant Accounts are specifically designed to effectively support the high demands of multi-server, high volume locations. Additionally, these specialized restaurant merchant accounts offer a significant savings in comparison to the standard applications which penalize merchants severely for manually keyed credit card transactions resulting from delivery and/or take out orders. Any of the credit card terminals offered by 1st National Processing can support restaurant merchant account applications with or without tip and server programs. 1st National Processing also offers customized, technologically advanced Restaurant POS Systems manufactured by Micros, Posi-touch, Sable and Aloha and can also issue merchant accounts to work with any other Point Of Sale system in the industry.