Merchant Services.

Providing your customers with even more payment options.

At Ameris Bank, it is our goal to help your business make money, save money, and add convenience, and this is why we have partnered with First Data®, a global technology and electronic payments leader, to offer you easy and affordable payment processing solutions to meet today's consumer demands.

We go beyond basic processing to help you make transactions easier, faster, safer and more valuable to your bottom line.

• Visa®, MasterCard®, Discover® Network and American Express® - all organized onto one statement.*
• Quick access to your account anywhere, anytime with Online Reporting.
• Choose from a wide variety of advanced credit card processing technology including wireless, Internet and PC-based options.
• Innovative payment options for credit cards, pin-based debit, gift cards, electronic check acceptance and more.
• Backed by the security of the Chargeback Defense System, one of the industry’s most accurate ways of processing chargeback investigations.
• Online access to key information on all of your payment streams through Business Track(SM), a single consolidated web tool that provides convenient, user friendly insight into all of your processing data, including credit, debit, prepaid/giftcard and check.

Our partnership with First Data® enables us to offer:

• Credit Card Processing: Offer your customers more payment options by accepting credit cards including Visa®, MasterCard®, Discover® Network, American Express®, Diners Club® and JCB®.
• Debit Card Payment Options: Personal Identification Number (PIN) based and signature based debit transactions are the fastest growing form of electronic payment. This method of payment is convenient for your customers and offers you reduced fraud, faster checkout times and higher ticket averages.
• Terminals: Accepting cards is easy for you and your customer with First Data's innovative merchant card processing solutions. Whether you need a wireless solution or one integrated with your PC, we have the equipment to help your business.
• Gift Cards: Build your brand and increase your sales with gift cards. Gift cards bring in new customers and gift card customers tend to spend more than just the value of the gift card.
• Electronic Check Conversion: Minimize returned checks by turning a paper check into an electronic purchase at the point of sale using TeleCheck Electronic Check Acceptance®. Electronic checks are deposited directly into your account within 48 hours.
• eCommerce Solutions: Whether it's a standard dial-up, high-speed IP or wireless terminal, we provide the most-advanced equipment available. Our software solutions make it easy for you to accept electronic payments over the Internet