All customer payments are in the form of Best Buy gift cards.
Stone said the Hoku contribution will come through a combination of cash on hand, existing credit lines, customer payments, and possibly an equity sale.
Eighty-seven companies said customer payments were roughly the same as the previous quarter (on a timely basis), three reported increased delays and three reported reduced delays.
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In December, the Bank of America launched its own mobile payment application that is linked directly to small-business owners' checking accounts, with customer payments available within a day.
It uncovered customer payments diverted to Super American Tissue, as well as inventory that should have been written down and damaged equipment that couldn't operate at break-even volume levels.
Customer interaction, payments and often product delivery can exist entirely within computer systems.
Hemlock prepared for the potentially negative volatility in the solar market by requiring strong and firm contracts with customers and getting customer pre-payments against these contracts.
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Foti's exhaustive list of demands for documents include all of UBS' electronic and paper communications files relating to Sedona stock, its trading records, monthly stock inventories, stock loan documentation, information regarding commission payments, customer account records and research done in house related to Sedona.
Luckily, with advances in technology and analytics, for the first time media companies have an opportunity to get their arms around the problem of corporate-wide rights management thanks to integrated solutions which manage the content from point of consumption all the way through to royalty and partner payments to invoicing the end customer.
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Banga is banking on prepaid cards, e-commerce and mobile payments to diversify MasterCard's customer base.
Under the new structure, InPhonic gets a smaller upfront fee for each handset activated, but it also gets residual payments for as long as the customer stays with the carrier.
The carrier finance department used them to credit a customer for up to several million dollars in payments as if the money had already been received, when it hadn't yet arrived at MCI.
In a free society, private payments should be covered by merchant-customer privilege just as attorney-client privilege covers confidential legal communication.
Not just timelier claim payments, the seller can provide enhanced customer service to expedite each of these specific customer needs if only by being impeccably responsive when inquiries as to scope of coverage are made or clarifications on notices or extensions are sought.
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Some new cloud-based solutions act as payment processors, as well as offering back-end customer relations management systems and the ability to accept mobile payments in the growing Internet economy.
The ICB wants a free current account redirection service to be formed by September 2013, with an improved system to catch all credits and debits going to a customer's old, closed account, including automated payments on debit cards and direct debits.
The Vickers report wants a free current account redirection service to be formed by September 2013, with an improved system to catch all credits and debits going to a customer's old, closed account, including automated payments on debit cards and direct debits.
"The payments would not be so recognised by the typical customer when he opens a current account with a bank, and they are not generally so presented by the banks in their terms or other documentation, " he added.
Most large credit card payments have to be authorised by an online check of the customer's account.
The theory behind such payments is often to keep a good (but presently unhappy) customer.
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We also helped customers by waiving mortgage fees, creating a customer service hotline with extended hours, and allowing customers to postpone their mortgage payments.
Square has grown quickly as a mobile payments service by simplifying the payments process, but has lately been adding more tools to increase customer loyalty with merchants.
But the customer never sees that extras like extended warranties have been quietly factored into the monthly payments.
Small businesses will take payments with a card swipe and leverage our back office, and a customer can put a check on there and do a deposit.
With smart commerce enabled mobile payments they can have an opportunity to do this by reworking the entire customer loyalty, reward and couponing process using smart mobile phones.
Not just by advancing insurance payments for cleanup and other initial response work, insurers can also provide enhanced customer service to expedite each of these specific customer needs if only by being impeccably responsive when inquiries as to scope of coverage are made, or clarifications on notices or extensions are sought.
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Mr. MICHAEL GOODMAN (Analyst, The Yankee Group): There's a lifetime value of that PS2 customer, and you're making money off of them, you're making royalty payments off of them.
Large retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target can successfully leverage their customer networks, wide reach and existing business models to increase adoption rates for the upcoming mobile payments platform.
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More Internet stores figure they'll be able to win over Nervous Nellies by accepting payments from services like BillMeLater, PayPal and Secure-ebill, which either allow a customer to pay directly from a bank account or allow personal financial information to be stored in one place, rather than spread out among numerous merchants.
Likewise, if you provide a low margin but high frequency services like payments you must find a way to retain customers for long enough to pay multiples of your customer acquisition cost.
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