Spire Payment Solutions

Spire Payment Solutions was established in 2010 as a result of years of experience with our parent company, North Pacific Payment Services. North Pacific Payment Services was established in 1992 by William Ayres Sr. and William Ayres Jr. Their goal was to establish a company that would provide premier merchant services to businesses in the Pacific... Northwest. Unlike so many other providers, North Pacific Payment Services took the time to understand a businesses needs and deploy a customized merchant services package. Over the course of time, North Pacific Payment Services grew and established offices across the nation while always holding to their core values of providing correct pricing and customer service. From it's inception in 1992 to 2009, North Pacific Payment Services recognized a growing trend in requests made by non profits to provide a temporary solution for card acceptance at fund raising events. Like others in the industry, when those request presented, wireless terminal or terminals utilizing "Store & Forward" programming were deployed. These solutions were adequate, but there were always innate problems with those solutions. Wireless signals are often weak or inconsistent and "store & Forward" terminals are difficult to batch and close. In 2009 Mark Ayres, the manager of the California office began to wonder, "There must be a better way". Countless credit card terminal solutions were considered and quickly discarded due to their inadequacies and complications caused by PCI compliance. Out of frustration and numerous dead ends, an early morning coffee meeting was scheduled between Mark and a prominent web developer, Dave Naves of Dave Works. Dave Works list many fortune 500 companies as clients. Listening to Mark and understanding how he wanted to assist non profits in the arena of fundraising, Dave promptly offered this observation: "Get your head out of traditional credit card terminals, step into the future and utilize the worldwide web". Armed with is new inspiration, the Spire System was ...Read More