Source: Electronic Clearing House
Electronic Clearing House, Inc. (NASDAQ:ECHO), a leading provider of electronic payment and transaction processing services announced today that it has signed a three-year agreement extending its long-standing partnership with EZCheck Check Services, Inc., a leading check conversion and authorization company.
Under this new agreement EZCheck will continue to utilize ECHO's Automated Clearing House (ACH) and authorization processing services, including risk management services, to augment its own check processing and check conversion infrastructure.
Through ECHO's range of products and access to other third party databases, EZCheck will be able to secure additional resources that aid in negative data acquisition, risk management integration and ultimately reduction of a merchant's bad check experience. These resources, along with the robust ACH and transaction processing services supplied by ECHO, enable EZCheck to provide a suite of quality products and services to its merchant customers.
"We are very pleased to be continuing our partnership with EZCheck, an organization that truly leads the market in providing check services to its clients," said Charles Harris, President and COO, ECHO. "ECHO is excited that we remain the processor of choice for a company of this caliber. Going forward, we believe our relationship with EZCheck will result in a greatly expanded channel for our services to meet the market's needs. The fact that EZCheck has chosen to continue this partnership is confirmation that our services and expertise support both the needs of our partners and merchant end-users. Ultimately, our mutual goal is to ensure that retailers enjoy tremendous savings due to reduced fraud, elimination of paper processing and minimal check returns."
"We believe no other processor can provide the same range of payment services, in ACH and paper check services, and also in our other payment processing products," Harris added.
"EZCheck has enjoyed a long-term relationship with ECHO, having partnered with them since 1999," said Randy Rutledge, President and CEO, EZCheck Check Services. "ECHO's ACH processing services have proven to be exceptionally reliable and this partnership gives EZCheck a strategic and technological advantage in the market. The National Check Network authorization database is, we believe, second to none. When combined with ECHO's other check risk management capabilities, we are ideally positioned to offer the best in check services to our clients," Rutledge added.