OMAHA -- Sapp Bros Travel Centers Inc. will deploy Postilion's solutions to enable the company to centralize fleet card authorization and transaction capture. Norcross, Ga.-based Postilion is a major global provider of integrated solutions for payments and self-service banking and a division of S1 Corp.
Because of the complexity of managing fleet payments and the range of fleet cards used to purchase fuel in the travel stop and convenience store industry, Sapp Bros chose Postilion to help streamline its authorization and transaction capture and to integrate payment for fuel at the pump [image-nocss] with traditional retail payments in its stores. Postilion solutions enable Sapp Bros to process all transactions via a central, open-systems payment switch and provide stand-in authorization.
"Given our current goal of growing our stores and the increasingly tighter margins on fuel purchases, it was imperative that we find new ways to streamline our transaction processing," said Don Quinn, president of Sapp Bros. "The Postilion Forecourt and POS Payments solution and the Postilion Payment Switching solution enable us to further control the payment transaction authorization and settlement process, which in turn drives down our costs and improves our customers' overall experience at the pump and in the store."
Francois van Schoor, senior vice president and general manager of Postilion Payments, said, " This enables [Sapp Bros] to reduce transaction processing time, the overhead of managing, configuring and maintaining multiple applications at each store and the in-store hardware footprint."
Sapp Bros Truck Stops was started by the four Sapp brothers in Omaha in 1971. Sapp Bros Truck Stops Inc. was incorporated in October of 1988. Prior to being incorporated, the travel centers were each separate corporations under the central leadership of W. D. Sapp. Sapp Bros Truck Stops has grown into a chain of 16 travel centers covering an eight-state region.
Built on open systems, Postilion solutions provide consolidated management information, card management, 3DES and EMV enablement and loyalty management. It is at the forefront of compliance with new regulations and security enhancements, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Visa's Payment Application Best Practices (PABP).
Norcross, Ga.-based S1 delivers customer interaction software for financial and payment services and offers solution sets for financial institutions, retailers and processors under three brands: Postilion, S1 Enterprise and FSB Solutions.Members help make our journalism possible. Become a CSP member today and unlock exclusive benefits, including unlimited access to all of our content. Sign up here.