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ISO/MLS contact:
Bruce Kirst
Executive Vice President
Sales, Marketing and Business
Development866-663-6132
help@merchante-solutions.com
www.merchante-solutions.com

Embracing a global evolution

n 1999, a handful of Bank of America Merchant split-ordering and encryption have all been native to the
Services executives broke away to form the mer- MeS platform from the beginning, so by nature, we've
chant acquiring and global processing company always been an omnichannel-ready service provider," he
I Merchant e-Solutions Inc. (MeS). Their primary said. "This is one of the unique MeS advantages, and it
ambition was to capitalize on the burgeoning ecommerce has enabled us to easily serve the emerging omnichannel
market. market, as well as specialized B2B verticals that are
incorporating an online focus."
Nearly 20 years and a major buyout later, MeS reported
it now processes over 20 billion in transaction volume MeS was quick to forge key business partnerships with
annually and serves a diverse portfolio of ecommerce, several ecommerce thought leaders, and according to
brick-and-mortar and business-to-business (B2B) custom- Rubel, the company's legacy partnership with NetSuite
ers. Purchased by Latin American processor Cielo S.A. in Inc. has carried MeS forward into many fruitful business
2012, MeS functions as a wholly owned subsidiary, repre- relationships over the years. He said the company also
senting Cielo's U.S. business. created similar partnerships with key telecommunications,
recurring billing and professional services companies.
Recognized for excellence

The MeS headquarters and engineering department The partnership mindset also moved MeS toward natural
are located in Atlanta, where approximately 120 of the alliances with independent software vendors (ISVs) and
company's 240 employees are based. Another branch software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, which Rubel said
is located in Spokane, Wash., and functions as the "far outweigh other parts of the market right now for
company's customer support and operations hub. This payments." He described his company's approach as, "the
location employs a staff of 80. The company also employs payments business inside of SaaS solutions."
a handful of remote workers.
According to Rubel, the original MeS business model
MeS has been recognized two-years consecutively on set the company up to naturally link with cloud-based
the Business Journal's "Best Places to Work in the Inland software providers, because the founders knew to
Northwest" list. The company has also earned two Stevie position themselves as a solution consulting group and
Awards, and it recently placed as a top-tier finalist in serve partners by embedding a "payments business" into
the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Young the software provider's payment model. "MeS has a great
Professionals One in a Millennial Awards. deal of skin in this game, so we're deeply invested in
making these companies successful with their payments
"We take pride in our world-class work environments," said solutions," he said.
Trevor Rubel, MeS co-CEO and Executive Vice President The new horizon
of Product. "We strive to maintain highly attractive,
contemporary work settings with innovative work spaces MeS noted that with over 200 partners, including
that promote fun, camaraderie and collaboration for our technology application providers (cloud and on-premise
team." solutions), ISVs, technology-driven ISOs and community
banks, the company has achieved status as a top-10
A partnership powerhouse merchant acquirer by The Nilson Report.
Designed and built to be a full-stack processor, MeS
prides itself on an extensive array of technical services. When asked about the future, Rubel indicated MeS is all
The company hosts end-to-end technologies that cover about payments and moving money. "We have the ability
everything from its virtual terminal and gateway platform to embed the technology and let the partner become the
to its final authorization and settlement technologies. payment facilitator," he said. "We still do underwriting,
but the partners offer the widgets, and this keeps our
Rubel referred to MeS as the original omnichannel service integrations clean, streamlined and attractive."
provider. "Features like tokenization, account updater,

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