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VersaPay Signs Brewers Distributor
Ltd. to a 5-Year Preferred Financial Services Provider Agreement
& Introduces the VersaCard.
Vancouver, BC, April 11, 2008 – VersaPay
Corporation, a national payment processing and financial transaction
services and solutions provider is pleased to announce the
signing of a 5-year preferred financial services provider
agreement with Brewers Distributor Ltd. (BDL), a joint venture
company owned by Labatt Breweries of Canada (www.labatt.com)
and Molson Coors Brewing Company (www.molson.com).
Brewers Distributor Ltd. represents over 9,000 restaurant,
beverage and hospitality clients across Western Canada, representing
over $1.5 billion dollars in business-to-business transactions
and over $10 billion dollars in consumer-based transactions.
Under the agreement, Brewers Distributor customers will be
able to use VersaPay’s VersaCard, a stored-value solution
which permits their merchants to instantly fund their VersaCard
for distributor purchases using their personal or corporate
credit cards, electronic funds transfer and other available
payment methods. The VersaCard is beneficial to Brewers Distributor
customers as cash settlement is required prior to the release
of inventory to liquor licensees. The VersaCard enhances supply-chain
relationships by providing multiple electronic payment methods
within one central and integrated environment, while increasing
order fulfilment efficiency and simplifying distributor account
reconciliation processes.
“We are very pleased to provide our customers with
the convenience of paying online, giving them the option of
using their credit cards to earn points and providing them
with merchant services through VersaPay” says Garry
Clermont, President of Brewers Distributor Ltd.
In addition to offering the VersaCard solution, Brewers Distributor
customers will be eligible to participate in the Brewers-VersaPay
Merchant Services Program which consists of preferential rates
on their payment processing for their own merchant accounts.
Under the joint program, VersaPay will immediately make available
to the 9,000 customers the guaranteed and privileged rates
for processing Visa®, MasterCard® and Interac®
Direct Debit payments at their place of business.
“We pride ourselves on offering versatile payment solutions
for our customers, and this is a testament of VersaPay’s
ability to deliver innovative solutions for any customer size,”
says Michael Gokturk, Chief Executive Officer of VersaPay.
He adds: “by further aligning ourselves with Brewers
and their vendors, we are able to simplify their product fulfillment
process, offer more forms of payments as well as lowering
their costs of credit and debit acceptance through preferential
rates.”
More information can be found on Brewers’ website at
www.bdl.ca or VersaPay’s
website at www.versapay.com
and www.versacard.ca.
For More Information
VersaPay Corporation: Kevin Short, Executive Vice President,
(604) 678-3230, kevin.short@versapay.com
Brewers Distributor Ltd: Mark Richardson, Director, (403)
531-1000, mark.richardson@bdl.ca
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