For issuers that need a sophisticated way to manage the complete cardholder relationship, SmartVista’s SmartIssuer provides integrated card management software that streamlines card program maintenance. SmartIssuer helps you easily design new card products, while providing functionality to manage existing card programs. When you want to add a special introductory interest rate, offer a deal for balance transfers, or create an incentive plan for volume purchases; SmartIssuer helps you implement card programs like these, even in legacy environments, without requiring additional coding. With SmartIssuer, you are limited only by your imagination.
SmartIssuer also provides application processing, with a scoring component that helps pre-qualify applicants—application data can be captured either manually or electronically. The card management solution also helps efficiently manage the customer relationship after the card has been issued including statements, invitation letters, online fees, and reports. SmartIssuer is highly configurable so you can create unique customer profiles. In addition, all customer communications such as events, transaction details, and statements can be sent by a variety of delivery methods such as mail, fax, email, and SMS text.
SmartIssuer also interfaces to external call centers and provides screens that assist with transaction inquiries. It also includes built-in workflow for dispute resolution. This automated card management system reduces operational costs by providing tools that help resolve chargebacks and disputed transactions. You can also enhance SmartIssuer’s capabilities with the SmartGuard fraud prevention solution, the SmartLoyalty loyalty program solution, and the SmartPro card production solution.
SmartIssuer electronically captures data from core banking or other external personal data management systems to eliminate manual entry, improve accuracy, and reduce operational costs.
SmartIssuer provides flexible configuration tools to help issuers create innovative card products on-the-fly. By selecting from pre-defined sets of card characteristics, issuers can quickly design targeted card products that exactly match customers’ requirements.
Tools are provided to organize product templates, such as base commission rates, agreement terms, and other parameters that apply to customers within a defined template. SmartIssuer is completely flexible and is not limited to specific templates.
SmartIssuer supports flexible fee calculation rules set up, as well as transactional and event-driven fees. Various fee calculation algorithms are supported, including fixed value, fixed value threshold, fixed value tiered, percentage value, percentage value threshold, percentage value tiered, and combinations of these types.
Multiple card types can be created that follow various payment schemes—VISA, MasterCard, China UnionPay (CUP), Diners Club, American Express, and proprietary cards—also different physical card types such as magnetic stripe, contact and contactless chip cards, co-branded cards, individual and corporate cards, and supplementary cards linked to main accounts. Debit, credit, and prepaid cards are also supported.
Multicurrency support is provided and various rules can be applied to define fund sources. SmartIssuer can accommodate accounts in local currency for local transactions, account selection, and others. SmartIssuer provides flexible ways to debit accounts—an important feature for cards that support multiple currencies.
SmartIssuer provides a variety of notifications for different transactions and events, providing customer information pertaining to both financial and non-financial messages, such as a PIN change.
SmartIssuer supports different statement rules setup with various statement generation cycles supported—weekly, monthly, or quarterly according to customers’ banking requirements.
SmartIssuer maintains customers’ personal profiles including most regular payments and stand-in payment orders saved and used by the system such as paying specific amounts on certain established days to specific payment destinations.
Through a web interface, SmartIssuer provides comprehensive information about the cardholder and account relationship.
SmartIssuer supports the full clearing and settlement cycle for all authorized financial transactions in accordance with the issuer’s pre-set rules.
SmartIssuer supports the complete cycle of dispute resolution from customer inquiry to write-off.
SmartIssuer includes a comprehensive accounting tool that is purpose-built to manage the complexity and sophistication of the payments business.
SmartIssuer provides a comprehensive set of standard reports such as reports required by local regulators or payment schemes, operational reports, and management reports.