CHARGE Anywhere, payment services or payment solutions?

Actually the company we are talking about in this article cannot be regarded as a payment system though it is directly related to the payment services. CHARGE Anywhere is just a provider of electronic payment solutions and it offers payments processing through its own Payment Gateway and its CHARGE Anywhere POS solution.

CHARGE Anywhere LLC does its business as Comstar Interactive which it acquired in 2004. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in South Plainfield, New Jersey. The CEO of the company Paul Sabella was the co-inventor and co-developer of the Charge Anywhere wireless credit card processing hardware and point of sale software solution and established the Comstar Payment Gateway for IP and wireless transaction processing services with Comstar Interactive Corp.

In 2005, Mr. Sabella and Comstar unveiled a suite of custom point of sale applications including, InFlight POS, MeterPOS, Charge Anywhere for Nurit terminals, Check Anywhere and Charge Anywhere POS software for Verifone equipment.

At the moment there is no comprehensive information about the company and its activity except numerous press releases and news entries on the company’s agreements, partnerships and products released. All we can learn about CHARGE Anywhere is that its POS solution was extended to be compatible with QuickBooks or via BlackBerry devices and so on. No statistics on the company revenues and production volumes can be accessed. There is no source that ever published such kind of data.

Still, we know something about its services and products, and thus, here is the brief review of what the company offers to its customers.

The company’s proprietary Visa Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) CHARGE Anywhere® v2.0.0 Mobile Payment and POS software solution designed for QuickBooks®, Smartphones and e-commerce environments, and the Web Terminal Payment Solution - ensures Payment Card Industry (PCI) Level 1 compliance via ComsGate® Payment Gateway.

CHARGE Anywhere accepts all types of payments:

• All Major Credit & Debit Cards
• Check Verification / Guarantee
• Prepaid Cards
• Contactless Payments

CHARGE Anywhere is certified with all major processors:

• CHASE Paymentech
• Concord/Buypass
• First Data Omaha
• First Data Nashville
• Global Payments
• TSYS

CHARGE Anywhere® Software is available on POS Terminals, PDAs and Smartphones and for Windows. All merchant accounts include a free Virtual Terminal to process transactions. CHARGE Anywhere solution is designed to work with QuickBooks®. It supports AT&T (GPRS), Sprint (CDMA), Verizon Wireless (CDMA) and Velocita (Mobitex) wireless networks in addition to IP, Wi-Fi and Dial-up Terminals.

CHARGE Anywhere software is developed for the deployment by the following industries:

• Taxi
• Limo
• Quick Restaurant
• Delivery
• Towing
• Restaurant
• Retail
• E-Commerce

In fact CHARGE Anywhere targets merchants that need to process transactions in a mobile environment. CHARGE Anywhere allows businesses to use their mobile phones for accepting payments.

Merchants can download CHARGE Anywhere via their mobile browser, create their merchant account and start operating it.