About Express

Express is an e-Connections application that offers workflow-enabled, single-point-of-entry capability to streamline the process of boarding and maintaining merchant accounts by providing a single point of access and data repository for all of your merchant-related data.

With Express, you are able to:

• Board merchants Merchant boarding refers to the process by which all merchants are added and configured in the Express application. Full-service merchants, as members of the back-end hierarchy, inherit characteristics from the higher levels of the hierarchy. This includes banks, groups, and associations. Front-end only merchants, as members of the front-end hierarchy, inherit characteristics from BINs, agents, and chains. These inherited characteristics appear in Express as default values and enabled or disabled options. and terminals.
• Setup front-end only clients and merchants.
• Align front-end and back-end entities to streamline reporting and management.
• View and manage bank information.
• Generate detailed reports on system and entity activity.
• Perform targeted searches to locate the information you need.

Before you familiarize yourself with the topics listed above, you might want to read about some of the basic concepts and utilities employed throughout Express - hierarchies, context, and error checking. Understanding these concepts will help you use Express more effectively.