Online ticketing platform connects to FAC’s secure, real-time payment gateway
Hamilton, Bermuda – September 25, 2018. First Atlantic Commerce (FAC), the foremost online payment solutions provider in the Latin American Caribbean Region and Premier Tickets Limited (Ptix), a leading online ticketing platform, today announced their partnership and technical integration to enable real-time, online credit card processing for Ptix and its customers.
FAC is a feature-rich payment gateway that delivers customized and flexible online credit and debit card processing to companies in Bermuda, the Caribbean and Central America, as well as in the US, Canada and Mauritius. The company also provides the first and only PCI validated P2PE solution for Mail Order/Telephone Order businesses in the Latin American Caribbean Region, as well as risk mitigation solutions to its merchants, banks and other gateways.
Ptix.bm is an online ticketing and marketing solutions company that has hosted over 3,000 events in Bermuda and internationally. The Ptix platform is capable of handling all event types including concerts, parties, theatre productions, registrations, conferences, workshops, and fundraisers.
Ptix supports general admission and reserved seating events for all size venues in Bermuda and globally. The Ptix system has robust capabilities in sales reporting, e-tickets, gate management, accreditation and barcode scanning, integration with social media and online donation portals, processing more than 10,000 transactions per month.
Ptix has integrated to FAC’s gateway to enable the online ticketing portal to accept credit and debit card payments using FAC’s payment platform with local settlement to Butterfield Bank. Given FAC’s currency support and connection to bank processors across the globe, utilizing the FAC platform will better equip Ptix for expansion into a broader international market.
FAC’s CEO, Chris Burns said: “Ptix is Bermuda’s leading ticketing and event company comprised of 100% Bermudian staff dedicated to help businesses market, support and run events. We are pleased to welcome Ptix to our portfolio of Bermuda clients and look forward to managing their payments strategy.”
Michael Branco, Ptix Founder added: “Ptix has leveraged the expertise and dedication of FAC to handle all of our ecommerce payments. This has streamlined our payments approach and will build value for the customers on our platform. We are excited about this partnership.”
About First Atlantic Commerce
First Atlantic Commerce (FAC) is a leading global, online payment solutions provider that specializes in the Caribbean. FAC is headquartered in Bermuda and was established in 1998 to create secure card-based payment solutions for online businesses. FAC provides merchants with multi-currency payment solutions, tokenization services and PCI validated Point to Point Encryption solutions. As well, FAC provides merchants and banks with fraud management services including AVS-only, CVV, 3-D Secure™ and Kount’s fraud control system, in multiple jurisdictions across Europe, Mauritius and the Latin American Caribbean Region.
About Premier Tickets
Premier Tickets Limited has been in operation as an online ticketing company since 2009 and has grown to be Bermuda’s leading online ticketing platform, hosting over 3,000 events locally and internationally. Our management, staff and online systems are all headquartered in Bermuda. Ptix.bm hosts a variety of large to small scale events, while managing a number of registrations, activities and experience bookings, averaging 10,000 transactions per month, while continually providing donation portals for over 30 charities. Furthermore, the Ptix platform is available for customization to enhance the customer experience.