Merchant Warehouse Announces Partnership With Teamwork Retail

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwired - Feb 18, 2014) -  Merchant Warehouse®, a leading provider of payment technologies and merchant account services, today announced a new partnership with Retail Cloud Technologies, maker of Teamwork Retail® which provides mobile, cloud-based retail technology solutions for retailers worldwide. Now, with the integration of the Genius™ Customer Engagement Platform™, the company can offer its clients the opportunity to be one step ahead of their competition with an advanced, flexible and seamless payments technology solution.

Teamwork Retail is a flourishing cloud-based management and mobile point-of-sale (POS) solution for mid-tier specialty retailers transforming how they run their business. Based on 30 years and over 100,000 stores of retail systems experience, Teamwork Retail is deployed internationally in five countries and is fast-growing with management and mobile POS solutions to more deeply engage consumers. With the Merchant Warehouse partnership and Genius integration, Teamwork Retail can provide retailers with the opportunity to easily adopt advanced payment technologies, while ensuring connectivity on the back-end to complete transactions, even in high-volume situations.

"The payments landscape has changed significantly over the past few years, and there are more changes to come. We need to bring solutions to our clients that are flexible in this rapidly evolving environment. That's how we found Genius," said Michael Mauerer, founder and CEO of Retail Cloud Technologies. "Genius is a visionary solution. Partnering with Merchant Warehouse us gives our clients the ability to accept virtually any type of payment on a single, unified platform. We look forward to embracing the continued advancements of Genius and a long partnership."

Genius offers merchants unprecedented flexibility and scalability to respond to market changes and customer preferences in an effective and timely manner. Designed to evolve with the payments landscape, the solution presents merchants with the opportunity to turn every transaction into an interaction through integrated commerce and marketing functionalities, seamlessly connecting user preferences across every shopping channel.

"The future of retail will include a combined mobile and analytics component," said Chad Willis, co-owner of Retail Cloud Technologies. "The ability to not only provide a seamless customer experience through mobile payment capabilities, but to also gain insight into the status of real-time performance of any of your retail locations from wherever you may be, will help retailers be more effective in achieving success. Merchant Warehouse's Genius integration will help us deliver this capability to our customers."

"It's our mission to help companies prepare for the future. That's why we created Genius," said Henry Helgeson, CEO, Merchant Warehouse. "With the Genius Customer Engagement Platform, merchants can be confident that they will always be able to adapt to the changing payments environment, letting them remain competitive with other key players in their respective markets." 

If you're interested in becoming a Merchant Warehouse partner, or for more information on the Genius Customer Engagement Platform, visit merchantwarehouse.com/genius.

About Retail Cloud Technologies and its flagship product Teamwork Retail
Teamwork Retail delivers the power of totally mobile, tablet-driven cloud computing to retailers seeking to transform how they do business. With this retail management system, clients enjoy smart, easy-to-use management and point-of-sale solutions (POS) that engage today's consumers to take full advantage of how they purchase. For more information, visit http://www.teamworkretail.com/.

About Merchant Warehouse
Merchant Warehouse is a leading provider of payment technologies and merchant services. The company's solutions enable merchants to more effectively connect and engage with their customers regardless of how, where or when they choose to shop. Merchant Warehouse's flagship technology solution, the Genius™ Customer Engagement Platform™, supports both traditional and new payment types, including mobile commerce, from a single countertop acceptance device.

Merchant Warehouse offers innovative payment solutions that help online and brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as point-of-sale (POS) developers, value-added resellers (VARs) and agents, strategically grow their business. Merchant Warehouse is one of the fastest growing payment technology companies in North America.