Eckoh’s CallGuard Remote enables businesses to continue operating remotely and securely during the COVID-19 crisis

Eckoh (AIM: ECK), the global provider of secure payments products and customer contact solutions has, since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, seen a significant increase in demand for its patented CallGuard Remote product, which enables contact centre agents to take payments securely whilst working remotely or at home.

For organisations that have needed to migrate some or all of their contact centre operations to remote locations, one of the toughest challenges they have faced has been to ensure the security of customers’ data when payments are taken over the phone.

CallGuard Remote, which has been successfully deployed with clients for more than three years, allows agents to take payments securely in a remote location in exactly the same way as they would whilst working in a contact centre secured by Eckoh’s CallGuard solution. The product can be activated quickly for homeworkers and can be easily upgraded to one of Eckoh’s other secure payment solutions, after operations return to an office-based environment.

In the past six weeks Eckoh has sold and deployed CallGuard Remote to both existing and new clients in sectors spanning utilities, retail, insurance and financial services. By facilitating secure phone-based payments, CallGuard Remote is enabling these organisations to continue providing critical services to their customers. Furthermore, at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, Eckoh made the decision to migrate its own contact centre to entirely remote locations, with all agents using CallGuard Remote.

In addition, Eckoh has also seen growing levels of interest for its patented ChatGuard, which assists in securing payments made over a live web chat. ChatGuard can be deployed into both Live Chat and Chatbot services, which can themselves be provided either directly by Eckoh or by a third-party provider. ChatGuard not only provides the optimum customer experience by taking payment within the customer’s channel of choice, but it also ensures that sales are maximised by converting them immediately.

Nik Philpot, CEO of Eckoh said; “We originally developed CallGuard Remote to meet the challenge of delivering robust payment security in remote locations, a need which has been growing steadily over recent years. However, the current crisis has driven an unprecedented and sudden move to remote working for contact centres and the demand for CallGuard Remote has risen significantly as a consequence.”

“In these challenging times businesses want to retain great customer service and keep commerce flowing, but they can’t compromise on security and controls have to be watertight. Deploying quickly shouldn't mean organisations need to take risks with security, so we’re really happy that we’ve been able to assist both new and existing clients in a short timeframe to continue to trade securely with a proven product, and one that we ourselves use.”

For more information, please contact:

Eckoh PLC
Nik Philpot, Chief Executive Officer
Chrissie Herbert, Chief Financial Officer
Tel: +44 (0) 1442 458 300
www.eckoh.com

FTI Consulting LLP
Ed Bridges / Jamie Ricketts / Tom Blundell
Tel: +44 (0) 203 727 1017
eckoh@fticonsulting.com

Singer Capital Markets (Nomad & Joint Broker)
Shaun Dobson / Tom Salvesen / Alex Bond / Kailey Aliyar
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7496 3000
www.singercm.com

Canaccord Genuity Limited (Joint Broker)
Simon Bridges, Andrew Potts
Tel: +44(0) 20 7523 8000
www.canaccordgenuity.com