Forte Overview
What is Forte?
Forte offers a complete payment solution to accept online payments in a variety of formats, including credit cards and eChecks, accepting all major credit cards and debit cards and verifying checks. Forte can also be used to manage recurring billing, integrate secure checkout to your website, take mobile payments on the go, and track and report on all payment activity from a single interface.
Forte offers advanced features to simplify and secure payment processing, these include ACH processing which lets you automatically collect payments from recurring subscriptions, memberships, as well as one-time payments. The ACH feature includes Sunday processing, late cut-off times, automatic recollect of returned checks, and automatic account correction.
Forte also includes point-to-point encryption and tokenization to protect and hide sensitive payment, check and credit card data as it moves through the payment process. Other features include real-time reporting, notifications & alerts, APIs for integration with other systems, and support for customers to pay over the phone and from their mobile phones.
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Excellent Pricing-A Little Lacking on Features
We started out with PayPal online payments but quickly wanted a more robust and professional way to accept payments at a lower cost. Forte was a great solution for us overall.
Integration with Invoicing Systems with some what rates competitive with Square, Stripe and...
We had a generally positive experience with Forte. Our main use of Forte was ACH processing, but the turn around time on ACH transactions was upwards of 10 days before funds were deposited in our account. Our new processor linked with our bank has a much faster turnaround time, usually 3 days.
It just WORKS!
We use Forte with NeonCRM. The two work together wonderfully.
Great and Easy Product for Small Business Owners
This service is HANDS DOWN the most affordable, and best value for the money when it comes to allowing a business to collect AUTOMATIC PAYMENTS. It has reduced the HOURS that I used to spend weekly collecting and writing invoices. Now everything is handled automatically - a dream for me and my team.
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Excellent Pricing-A Little Lacking on Features
Pros
The system handles all the PCI requirements and offers very, very competitive one-time eCheck entries. VERY few companies I found will offer this so it is a GREAT benefit our church deeply appreciates.
Cons
Setup was a little involved, since we are not a typical storefront selling some kind of product. Our payments are all donations. As such, setting up to allow people to donate to various of our income stream was a little involved--regular donations, international fund, youth camp fund, assistance to the needy, etc. But we've been able to make it work for us.
Response from Forte Payment Systems
Hi Ken. Thanks so much for providing feedback based on your experience using Forte. We appreciate your time and value you as a customer. Our support teams are available to help you with whatever you need.
Integration with Invoicing Systems with some what rates competitive with Square, Stripe and Paypal
We had a generally positive experience with Forte. Our main use of Forte was ACH processing, but the turn around time on ACH transactions was upwards of 10 days before funds were deposited in our account. Our new processor linked with our bank has a much faster turnaround time, usually 3 days.
Pros
Setting up the account was a pretty smooth process. We were assigned a merchant ID and given access to a virtual client to manually charge credit cards. They offer ACH processing with our invoicing software. When we decided to move to a different ACH process we left Forte. I was expecting a hassle cancelling our account, but it was straightforward and easy.
Cons
The virtual credit card processing client is very dated as is the navigation for reporting. Unlike Square, Forte charges a different percentage for American Express credit cards (and many of our clients use their business AmEx which created a functionally higher credit card processing rate.
We only use it because we have to
Pros
The only pro about your product is that it allows for our developers to write their own code to reconcile the transactions processed in Forte with our Quickbooks software. We have had to spent an absurd amount of resources to get it to work, but at least you allow us the option and a sandbox as other companies require a 3rd party software or close this information off completely.
Cons
Pretty much everything else. The Dex platform is a slight improvement, however, everything needs to be initially set up in the Virtual Terminal prior to being available in Dex (example, email addresses). The Virtual Terminal is horribly designed (literally painful to look at) the amount of clicks it takes in order to complete a function is excessive, the character max for email addresses is unnecessary. If we could switch off of this platform we would, but unfortunately many of the other processors out there do not play well with Quickbooks Enterprise.
It just WORKS!
We use Forte with NeonCRM. The two work together wonderfully.
Pros
Reliability. It just works. Up time is very close to 100%.
Cons
It's not pretty and takes a little bit to learn your way around, but it always works. Pretty isn't always better. I've seen many software companies release new prettier versions and lose the comfortable flexibility.
Great and Easy Product for Small Business Owners
This service is HANDS DOWN the most affordable, and best value for the money when it comes to allowing a business to collect AUTOMATIC PAYMENTS. It has reduced the HOURS that I used to spend weekly collecting and writing invoices. Now everything is handled automatically - a dream for me and my team.
Pros
The product is STRAIGHT FORWARD and very affordable for allowing me to collect ACH and Credit Card payments for my business.
Cons
The functionality is low - I'd like to be able to run more reports. The interface is rudimentary - I'd like to see a more sleek dashboard.
Response from Forte Payment Systems
Thanks so much for the feedback, Kate. We're glad you find working with Forte to be such a great experience and is such good value for your business.
Our support team is available at your convenience if you need any assistance with anything.
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Key features of Forte
- ACH processing
- Auto-collect returned checks
- Check verification & recovery
- Checkout
- Credit card processing
- Fraud prevention
- Full stack APIs
- IVR/ phone payments
- Mobile payments
- Multi-channel bill paying
- Notifications & alerts
- POS solutions
- Payment gateway
- Print & email payment receipts
- Real-time validation
- Recurring payments
- Search, void, & refund payments
- Suite of reports
- Virtual terminal
- eCheck processing
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Forte FAQs
Forte FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Forte.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Forte offer?
Forte offers the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Not Available
Q. What are the main features of Forte?
Forte offers the following features:
- ACH processing
- Auto-collect returned checks
- Check verification & recovery
- Checkout
- Credit card processing
- Fraud prevention
- Full stack APIs
- IVR/ phone payments
- Mobile payments
- Multi-channel bill paying
- Notifications & alerts
- POS solutions
- Payment gateway
- Print & email payment receipts
- Real-time validation
- Recurring payments
- Search, void, & refund payments
- Suite of reports
- Virtual terminal
- eCheck processing
Q. Who are the typical users of Forte?
Forte has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Forte support?
Forte supports the following languages:
English
Q. What type of pricing plans does Forte offer?
Forte has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
Q. Does Forte support mobile devices?
We do not have any information about what devices Forte supports
Q. What other apps does Forte integrate with?
Forte integrates with the following applications:
ChargeOver, Chargent, Citizenserve, CounSol.com, Zoho Books, Zoho Checkout, Zoho Commerce, Zoho Expense, Zoho Inventory, Zoho Subscriptions
Q. What level of support does Forte offer?
Forte offers the following support options:
Forum, Online Support, Phone Support
We started out with PayPal online payments but quickly wanted a more robust and professional way to accept payments at a lower cost. Forte was a great solution for us overall.