Small businesses using PASS Commerce Center and services will benefit from improved cash flow, visibility into their financial standing, best practice security measures that reduce fraud and identity theft, and the ability to extend greater flexibility of payment options to their customers. 

The new services for small businesses are now available in PASS (Payments as a Secure Service) Commerce Center. The solutions leverage IP Commerce’s IP Payments Framework, a single platform that provides the framework to enable disparate applications and services to communicate. PayPal’s technology allows small businesses to create and send their customers payment-enabled invoices over email using the PASS Email Invoicing service. 

The invoices include an encrypted payment button that is embedded into the invoice, allowing small businesses to accept payment through their PayPal accounts. The Sales Ticker allows PayPal small business users to add an active desktop icon that receives and alerts them to incoming PayPal payments in real-time, without the need to login to their PayPal accounts. 

The PASS Consortium, developed by IP Commerce, is a group of leading financial institutions and payment service providers working together to promote secure and efficient open financial transactions within the Windows Vista Business operating system.

As part of the PASS Consortium’s quest to promote an open payments network, the member organizations’ services are now available via PASS Commerce Center, a comprehensive financial management solution designed to help small businesses using Windows Vista Business succeed. In addition to PayPal, PASS Consortium members include AmbironTrustWave, BankServ, Chase Paymentech, CIT Group, Inc., and Internet Commerce Corporation.  

PASS Commerce Center is available now for free by visiting www.passpayments.com .  PayPal enables any individual or business with an email address to send and receive payments online securely and easily using a bank account, credit card or stored balance. Because PayPal allows customers to shop online without sharing their financial information with merchants, privacy is built into the service. PayPal has nearly 133 million accounts and is available to users in 103 markets around the world.