BridgePay Cuts Development Time for Customer-Facing Portal by 40% with Progress

BridgePay Network Solutions, LLC is a transaction gateway company specializing in providing turnkey payment application solutions to merchants and partners across numerous industries. The company’s comprehensive suite of payment products aims to reduce the scope of PCI with simplified connectivity to more than 30 domestic and international processors, five ACH providers and 16 gift and loyalty companies. “We help independent sales organizations bring transactions to banks”, said Bill Marshall, Chief Technology Officer at BridgePay Network Solutions. BridgePay was looking to replace its existing payment application with a more full featured, visually appealing portal for customers and partners.

“We wanted to create a portal website for our credit card processing gateway that was aesthetically pleasing yet functional, enabling our customers to perform any and all tasks required for processing credit card transactions in a single location,” said Marshall. While researching numerous frameworks, the development team stumbled on Progress® Kendo UI®. “What stood out primarily was the look and feel Kendo UI created,” said Jenna Ramsey, Chief Architect at BridgePay Network Solutions. “When you’re dealing with the presentation logic, the more it can pop and distinguish you from competitors, the better. Kendo UI has drop-in widgets we can configure on-thefly, based on what the user wants to see. It was the ideal solution for creating the portal we had in mind, within a short timeframe.” While learning about Kendo UI, the team discovered Progress Telerik® DevCraft™, as well. “We liked many of the DevCraft tools, and decided to adopt them to assist with our development efforts,” she said.

Using Kendo UI and several of the DevCraft tools, the development team at BridgePay created MyBridgepay.com, a highly functional, one-stop portal for BridgePay customers.Users can log in and perform any and all tasks associated with processing credit card transactions, including managing batches of transactions, setting up billing and payments, onboarding merchants and so on. Administrators can use the portal to define roles and access rights for users. The site is used in a variety of industries, including lodging, car rental, dining establishments, utilities, retail and government.

The team used DevCraft tools such as JustDecompileTM, JustCode, FiddlerTM, Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC and Telerik Reporting during the site’s development, as well as Kendo UI. “We have well over 100,000 merchant customers who will benefit from the solution,” said Marshall. “During the first phase, about 30,000 adopted MyBridgePay.com, and more will be adopting it this year.”