As I was completing the research for this article, I was admittedly getting a bit frustrated. What is it with these companies that have credit card offers that no one seems to be able to access online? Seriously, what’s the point?
If I’m interested in your organization’s credit card, I would expect to go online and look up your card and… voila, a complete website appears with all the information I need. It’s not magic; It’s how things should be, any good salesperson knows that.
Well, to my surprise, this is not what I experienced while searching for the Elan credit card. Instead, I was greeted with a card member services page for all my research effort. Now tell me, how can I become a member when I can’t even find information about the credit card offer to decide whether to go ahead with an application?
Upon further investigation, I realized that the Elan membership page was powered by Elan Financial Services, so I thought that if I visited their site, I would be able to access Elan’s credit card offer details.
Once I got to http://www.elanfinancialservices.com it became clear to me why there were no specific credit offers on the internet and this time I would let go of my frustration because I now understand what Elan is all about.
You’ll see that Elan is actually a transaction management company that offers credit card and other financial services to its members.
They do not offer credit cards to the general public, but instead handle the back-end work such as card authorization processing, system monitoring, and point-of-service transactions, to name a few.
You must be a business entity to take advantage of Elan credit card services. This is because your business would be partnering with Elan to provide credit card services to its customers and the day-to-day transaction management would be handled and supported by Elan Financial Services.
As an example, the following credit cards provided by these two companies work with Elan, but the cards are issued in the name of the bank.
o Banco del Pacífico Central credit card
or Bloomfield State Bank
Although the Elan option did not work, there are many other credit card offers available in the market. You can search through many different categories to find the right card for your circumstances. Categories include:
o Airline credit cards
o Balance Transfer Credit Cards
o Business credit cards
o Bad credit Credit cards
o Rewards credit cards
o Student credit cards
These are just a few of the categories available, so don’t delay, start your credit card search today.