Back Office Conversion allows a business to accept a paper check for payment and convert it electronically at a central location. At this point in the process, the only difference is that customers must receive notification their checks will be converted and must be given the choice to opt-out. If a customer chooses to opt out, you are under no obligation to accept his check.

The transaction takes place via a one-time Automated Clearing House (ACH) debit. Using payment information from the check, your check processing service creates an ACH file and transmits it to the customer's bank via the ACH network. The customer's account receives a debit for the amount and you receive a credit.

After sending payment information to the check processing service, you would make and retain a copy of the check and destroy the original.

Once the transaction is complete, you will immediately see the transaction listed in your bank account as a normal deposit.

Point of Purchase conversion occurs at the business location. The customer writes a check and receives the check back when the process is complete. Although you do not retain possession of the check, the customer signs, either electronically or on paper, a receipt assuming responsibility for the check.

As the check passes through a scanner, information from the customer's check transfers to the check processing service. The payment information obtained allows for the creation of an ACH file. The check processing service transmits the file to the customer's bank via the ACH network, where the customer's account receives a debit for the amount and you receive a credit.

Once the transaction is complete, you will see the transaction listed in your bank account as a normal deposit. Converted checks will normally clear the customer's bank within one day of receipt.