Seamless Transactions, Top-Notch Security, and Happy Customers: How Online Payments Affect You as a Theater Owner
As the world grows increasingly digitalized, mobile payment methods are becoming the primary channel for e-commerce. 80% of transactions are now happening on mobile devices. Yep, you read that right. Mobile devices are where your customers are at.
Think about it. How recently did you pay for something on your mobile phone? And did you pull out your credit card or did you pay with the click of two buttons thanks to information already stored on your phone? It’s no surprise that customers are turning to mobile solutions like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and PayPal to make their transactions more swift and convenient. Keep in mind, ease of pay translates to increased conversion rates which means more ticket sales.
The world of online payment security keeps evolving, and PCI compliance is taken very seriously to guarantee that your customers’ data is protected. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) sets security standards that payment providers have to abide by. These standards apply to all companies that handle, transmit, and store card data.
At Boxoffice we feel that if we don’t need to handle sensitive card data, we shouldn’t. Third party solutions — otherwise known as hosted payment solutions — securely accept and store the data, whisking away considerable complexity, cost, and risk for our customers. Using these solutions, card data never touches our servers, alleviating the need to be PCI DSS compliant.
Given the rise of mobile payment methods and the evolving importance of PCI compliance, we’re excited to announce the launch of Boxoffice Pay. Powered by WorldPay, this solution offers the best of all worlds to our customers.
Some benefits of Boxoffice Pay:
- Boxoffice Pay is fully PCI compliant because it’s a hosted payment solution. It’s also regularly evaluated by Worldpay’s Risk & Assessment Team to ensure PCI compliance and security. In the coming months, we will stop using integrated payment solutions via POS to limit risk to our current customers’ businesses and, instead work with them to transition to hosted payment.
- Boxoffice Pay is top-notch when it comes to payment ease. It comes out of the box with Apple Pay, GPay, and credit card tokenization (when a user’s credit card is remembered and doesn’t need to be re-entered over and over, making the process less cumbersome for those who still prefer to use their credit cards).
- Boxoffice Pay comes at very competitive rates. We negotiated prices for our customers at scale, ensuring that we can beat most prices you would get by going directly to a payment processor.
We’ve been waiting to bring features like these to our customers for quite some time. Now, with Boxoffice Pay we can! Of course, we will continue to support our existing integrations with Worldpay/Vantiv, Adyen, Stripe, and Spreedly in the US, all of which offer excellent hosted & mobile-friendly solutions. But we encourage our customers to reach out and get a quote on Boxoffice Pay so they can save while boosting online sales.
