Realex Payments - Online Credit Card Payments

Realex Payments - The Global Online Payment Processing Exchange LogoRealex Payments are a privately owned company that was founded in 2000 by Irish entrepreneur, Colm Lyon. Since that time, the business has grown year on year and now employs over 60 people in Dublin, London and Paris. Further overseas offices are planned over the coming years.

Realex Payments provides their customers with a comprehensive range of payment processing services to cater for companies selling in the card-not-present environment. The growth of customers has been experienced in a steady year on year growth since its foundation. The range of Realex Payments services cover the following :

  • Multi-channel payment processing, catering for a range of businesses, from SMEs to Corporates.
  • Allowing business to process payments over the phone, via the internet, via a recurring file or an IVR solution.
  • Offering extremely competitive pricing rates, starting from as little as €29 per month, which includes 350 transactions.
  • Realex have a range of international corporate services that cover fraud management, currency conversion, direct debit processing and electronic bank transfers.


Realex Payments now have in excess of 3000 merchants across Ireland, the UK and Internationally. In June 2009, they signed a record number of 110 new customers in the month, which was a milestone for Irish internet business. Some of the key customers include Aer Lingus, Vodafone, Virgin Atlantic, the Irish Government and Party Poker, all whom have experienced first class Service, Reliability and Support from Realex Payments.

 

Contact Details

Company Name: Realex Payments
Address

Realex Payments

Castlecourt

Monkstown Farm

Monkstown

Co. Dublin

Ireland

Telephone +353 (0) 1 280 8559
Fax +353 (0) 1 280 8538
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Website http://www.realexpayments.com
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/realexpayments
Payment Methods Delta
American Express
Visa Electron
Switch
Solo
MasterCard
Maestro
Laser
Visa Diners Club International
Recurring Payments
Acquiring Banks

AIB

Elavon (Bank of Ireland)

Elavon (A&L / Girobank)

Elavon (Santander)

Elavon (Citibank)

Streamline - Natwest, Ulster Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland

American Express

Fexco

Diners

Barclaycard

Visa

Mastercard

Bank of Scotland Merchant Services

LLoyds TSB Cardnet

EMS Card

Settlement Period Next day settlement to your bank account.
Currency Realex Payments support all major currencies worldwide, providing you are set up with your acquiring bank to process that currency.
Dynamic Currency Conversion Realex Payments offers dynamic currency conversion and multi-currency pricing.
Address Verification Service (AVS)
Address Verification Service (AVS) is supported by Realex Payments
Card Verification Service (CVS)
Card Verification Service (AVS) is supported by Realex Payments
Verified by Visa
Verified by Visa (3D Secure) is supported by Realex Payments
MasterCard Secure Code Mastercard Secure Code (3D Secure) is supported by Realex Payments
Fraud Prevention & Fraud Detection
As standard to all customers, Realex Payments provide a range of fraud prevention solutions. This ranges from the standard offerings of 3D Secure, AVS and CVC checking but on top of that, Realex provide their own in-house fraud scoring system, RealScore. RealScore is a data-checking system that analyses the nature of the transaction and cross-references its data against a number of key parameters. It is a very powerful tool to help in the prevention of fraudulent transactions and it has been extremely popular with the majority of their corporate clients.
Virtual Terminal Realex Payments provide a Virtual Terminal

Web-Based

(No Application to Install)

The Realex Payments Virtual Terminal can be accessed from a web browser.
Web Browser Support
  • Firefox
  • Internet Explorer
  • Safari
  • Chrome
Transaction Types Supported

All major transaction types are supported through the Virtual Terminal:

  • Authorisation
  • Refund
  • Void
  • Settlement

Role Based Access

(Customised Access Levels)

Realex Payments provide role based access to the virtual terminal based on the requirements of the customer.
Integration Methods
  • Hosted Payments Page (Redirect model)
  • XML API
Integration Technologies

Realex Payments provide sample code in the following technologies:

  • Java
  • PHP
  • ASP (Classic)
  • ASP .NET
  • Perl
E-Commerce Platforms
Telephone Support

+353 (0) 1 280 8559

Telephone Support Hours
08.30 - 18.15 (Monday - Friday)
Extended support hours can be provided for an additional fee. Our systems are monitored by our administrators 24x7.
Email Support

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Average Email Response Time Average response time would be within 3 hours but should there be any service affecting issue, our support team will keep you constantly updated.
Online Support
Realex provide online support in their resource centre
Support Forum Realex provide a support forum in their resource centre
Reporting Application Realcontrol is a powerful database reporting interface of all a merchant’s transactions, allowing customised searches. All pending, failed, delayed and unpaids are readily available as standard. Batches and files submitted are available for download.
Data Exporting A comprehensive search facility allows the download of results to an Excel spreadsheet for reconciliation or import to other internal systems.
Real Time Reporting Merchants have full visibility over all transactions in real time through all sales channels processed via Realex Payments. This may be through the website, call centre, online terminal or by direct debit processing
Transaction Types Transaction management allows processing of voids, rebates and refunds through Realcontrol

Role Based Access

(Customised Access Levels)

Realex Payments RealControl supports role based access
Transaction Pricing

RealPay

  • No Setup Fee
  • Monthly Fee: €29
  • Number of Free Transactions per month: 350
  • Excess Transaction Charge: €0.19
  • 3DSecure Transactions: Free of charge

 

The features of the service are:

  • Fraud prevention tools including CVN and Fraud Scoring and 3DSecure
  • Multi-currency capability
  • No extra charges for terminal IDs, accounts, currencies
  • Can support multiple websites
  • Next day settlement to your bank account
  • You control the branding on the payment page
  • Support for a large range of credit and debit cards
  • Comprehensive online reporting application
  • Supports refunds, rebates, voids and easy downloads.
Setup Fee No setup fee for RealPay package.
Custom Pricing
contact Realex Payments for custom pricing.

 

The information listed above was provided by Realex Payments and confirmed correct on 13/07/2009.