Alliance AuthExpress provides a reliable, scalable, and manageable platform for the authorization of credit card, value card, and gift card transactions. Your organization can start with a small volume of transactions and grow to a very large number of transactions without changing your authorization software. Alliance supports a variety of authorization networks including Visa (Visa Access Point and Direct Exchange), First Data, Alliance Data Systems, ValueLink and others.  Interfaces to the system include TCP sockets,  MQ (MQSeries), data queues, and secure FTP. You can directly connect Point of Sale systems or other computing platforms to Alliance for authorization services.

Alliance AuthExpress provides two versions for the small and large enterprise. Alliance AuthExpress Internet Edition provides the starting point for the small company or an company with a small number of transactions. Alliance AuthExpress Internet Edition includes a license to Alliance FTP Manager for settlement transfer, Alliance Application Monitor for system monitoring, and Alliance BankLink/400 for dial communications. Standard business hours support is included.

Alliance AuthExpress Enterprise Edition provides for an unlimited number of transactions per day and includes a license to Alliance Application Monitor for system monitoring, Alliance BankLink/400 for dial communications, Alliance FTP Manager for secure SSL FTP transmission to your bank,  Alliance PGP Option for strong encryption, 24/7 support. The Enterprise Edition is designed for the large retail or commercial enterprise with a high volume of transactions.