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7-Day CitrusPay/Card Processing Support and One Location to View All Card Transactions
I am requesting two improvements to CitrusPay: - Card-processing support that is available seven days a week. - One place where we can see ALL card transactions processed through CitrusPay, including deposits, sales, refunds, and attempted/declined transactions. WHY SEVEN-DAY SUPPORT IS NEEDED For a bike shop, Saturday and Sunday are typically our busiest days. Those are the days we have the most customers in the store and process the greatest number of credit and debit card transactions. If there is a problem with CitrusPay or a card transaction on a weekend, we need to be able to reach someone who can help us determine what happened and resolve the issue while the customer is still standing in front of us. Today is a perfect example. WHAT HAPPENED TODAY Today, an out-of-town customer put a bike on LAYAWAY. Like many of our customers, he lives several hours away. In this case, he lives five hours away. We are in a tourist town, so transactions with customers who do not live locally are quite normal for us. We took a $400 deposit from his debit card. Later in the day, the customer returned and told us he had changed his mind about purchasing the bike and asked us to refund his $400 deposit. Because this was a Layaway, I: - Used Recall Order to retrieve his Layaway Order. - Located and selected "Deposit Taken." - Clicked "Issue Refund." - Proceeded through the refund process. - The customer inserted his debit card into the Pin Pad. - The Pin Pad then displayed "Card Declined," and the refund did not appear to process. I attempted the refund again. However, when I clicked "Issue Refund" the second time, Citrus-Lime told me: "The deposit has already been refunded." The system also displayed the following message: "Please note that you can only refund any deposit payment up to the maximum still applied to the transactions (e.g., if any of the deposits has been used when picking up items, you cannot refund more than the remaining value)." THE PROBLEM Citrus-Lime POS is now telling me the $400 deposit has already been refunded, while the Pin Pad told me the refund was declined. I then tried to determine what had actually happened. I checked the Receipt Journal. I could not find a receipt showing that the refund had been successfully processed. I checked Back Office > Payments & Transactions. Under the Transactions tab, I could not find either the original $400 deposit or the attempted refund. I then checked CitrusPay Payouts > Transactions. That screen will not show me today's transactions. I can only see transactions through yesterday at 5 pm. So, despite checking multiple areas of Citrus-Lime, I have no way to determine what actually happened at the card processor. Did the refund go through? Was it declined? Did CitrusPay receive the refund request but decline it? Did the POS incorrectly mark the deposit as refunded even though the card processor declined the transaction? Why was the debit card declined for a refund? Most importantly, how do I now get this customer's $400 back to him? THE CUSTOMER IMPACT Unfortunately, I could not get an answer because this happened on a Sunday, when I could not reach Citrus-Lime or the card-processing support office. The customer has to leave early tomorrow morning (Monday am) to drive approximately five hours home. He left my store without his $400 refund, and I could not even tell him definitively what happened to the transaction, or when I might have the issue straightened out. That puts both the customer and our business in a terrible position. REQUEST #1: CITRUSPAY SUPPORT SEVEN DAYS A WEEK If CitrusPay is going to be our payment processor, we need access to card-processing support on the days we are actually processing cards. Retail does not stop Friday afternoon. Saturday and Sunday are among our busiest days, and those are precisely the days when card-processing problems can have the greatest impact on our customers and our business. At minimum, we need a seven-day CitrusPay/Card Processing Help Desk that can look at a transaction in real time and tell us exactly what happened. REQUEST #2: ONE PLACE TO SEE ALL CARD TRANSACTIONS We also need a single location within CitrusPay where we can see every card-processing transaction that has gone through the Pin Pad/Card Processor, regardless of how Citrus-Lime categorizes the underlying POS transaction. That should include: Sales Deposits Layaway deposits Refunds Deposit refunds Voids Declined transactions Failed refund attempts Pending transactions Most importantly, we need to be able to see TODAY'S transactions in real time. If a transaction goes through the CitrusPay Pin Pad, I should be able to immediately find it in CitrusPay and see its status. I should not have to search the Receipt Journal, Payments & Transactions, CitrusPay Payouts, and multiple other areas of the system trying to piece together what happened. In today's situation, the POS says the deposit was refunded, the Pin Pad said the refund was declined, and I cannot find a card-processing record that tells me which one is correct. That's exactly when a retailer needs two things: real-time visibility into the card transaction and a support person we can call. Please let me know how I can determine the actual status of today's $400 refund and how I can successfully return the customer's money. I would also appreciate Citrus-Lime considering these two requests as important CitrusPay operational improvements.
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