July 2012 Featured Articles
One Year And Counting for EMV!
Visa will require VisaNet acquirer processors to ensure that their systems support merchant EMV chip acceptance.
Effective April 1, 2013, acquirer processors and sub-processor service providers will be required to support merchant acceptance of EMV chip transactions.
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End to End Encryption & Tokenization
E2EE and Tokenization are often positioned as an either/or solution, but this is not the case. Each technology has its place in payment security. This article defines both solutions and their significant characteristics.
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March 2012 Featured Articles
What's New
in Payment Terminals for 2012?
VeriFone was one of
the many manufacturers that choose the January NRF
Convention held in New York City to introduce their
new products to retailers and developers.
The new MX915 and
MX925 are VeriFone's latest additions and although
complete redesigns of their popular MX family of
terminals, they are compatible with existing MX
applications.
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These Dates are Real!
Both Equinox Payment Systems and Ingenico are moving
to new product platforms and discontinuing their
old products.
The final dates are fast approaching. Click on
the link below to review the products effected
and notable dates.
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December 2011 Featured Article
 NEW
Video: Why POSDATA
7 Major Reasons You Can Count on POSDATA
Take a few minutes to check out our new video. The
entertaining, fast paced video graphically depicts what
sets us apart. It highlights seven (7) key areas
you need to consider when evaluating your distributor
partner.
July 2011 Featured Articles
Hypercom announces L4250 End of Life
Hypercom has announced that it will cease production of all
L4250 products on January 31st, 2012. It should be
noted that current PCI regulations still will allow for the
purchase and installation of these products through April
30, 2014. It is expected that some amount of inventory will
be available through POSDATA after January 2012.
POSDATA
Recommends
POSDATA recommends that any development work on Hypercom
products should be done on their new L5XXX product
lines. Current software vendors and resellers should begin
planning on upgrading their code to support the new
generation of Hypercom products.
Hypercom
Announces End of Life for SmartPayments (TPI) Products
POSDATA was notified on July 18, 2011 that effective July
15, 2011 Hypercom has provided an End of Life announcement
for all Smart Payments products. For your reference, click
below to the Hypercom End of Life Statement, as well as a
list of alternative solution providers.
Hypercom announced that Smart Payments products are no
longer PA-DSS compliant and strongly recommend that users
migrate to other solutions.
Click
for more more information:
Hypercom Support Discontnuance Notice
Alternate Solutions to SmartPayment Products
Ingenico announces i6XXX Price Increase and EOL Plan
Ingenico has announced
that their popular i6XXX integrated credit
terminals will have a 15% price increase beginning for all
purchases made after September 30th, 2011.
Distributors like POSDATA will be making purchases of
equipment at the current pricing in an effort to stockpile
some terminals for their customers before having to
institute the price increase. POSDATA's
intention is to maintain all current pricing until at least
January 1st, 2012.
In addition to the price increase notice, Ingenico has
announced that it will cease production of all i6XXX
products on December 31st, 2012. It should be
noted that current PCI regulations still will allow for the
purchase and installation of these products through April
30, 2014. It is expected that some amount of inventory will
be available through POSDATA after January 2013.
POSDATA Recommendations
POSDATA
recommends that any development work on new Ingenico
products should be done on their new
iSC2XX,
iSC350,
iPP2XX and
iPP3XX Telium product lines. Current software vendors
and resellers should begin planning on upgrading their code
to support the new generation of Ingenico products.
March 2011 Featured Articles
POSDATA and PAX Partner on the SP20
About PAX
PAX is a provider of EFT POS
terminals. The company has been serving the global payments
marketplace since 2001 and is now one of the largest POS
manufacturers in the world. In 2008, PAX ranked 8th in terms
of annual shipments for POS vendors, according to The
Nilsson Report. With shipments over 264,000 units in 2008,
PAX is the fastest growing POS terminal manufacturer of the
top 25 worldwide.
 Hypercom's
L5300 is a Smash Hit
Last year, Hypercom quietly introduced its new family of
integrated payment terminals to the marketplace. Since that
time, they have begun to roll out the first member of that
family. The L5300 is a color touch screen terminal capable
of supporting all major communications protocols, RFID and
NFC.
Click here for
more information on the L5300 and to download the data
sheet.
Call Center
PCI Document for Payments Data Security is Issued
POSDATA is constantly checking out news related to the PCI
Security Standards Council and any documents that may
interest our customers. One such document was released on
March 18th concerning data security standards at
call centers. The main purpose of this document is to
define the standards to be used when taking card information
over the phone either in a recorded environment or live. I
know that most of us take orders over the phone. Like the
merchants we serve, we are also governed by the PCI
rules when it comes to the security of payment card data.
Take a moment to review this document and make sure that you
are compliant.
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/protecting_telephone-based_payment_card_data.pdf
July 2010 Featured Articles
Want to use your iPhone as a credit card terminal? ID TECH's got an app (and a product) for that!
 ID TECH, the leading manufacturer of standard and custom POS and identification peripherals, has released the iMag, a PCI compliant credit card reader for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, the iPhone 4, or the iPod Touch.
ID TECH utilized its superior card reading technology on the iMag, bringing new possibilities to the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The iMag is capable of reading up to three tracks of card data and has a 300,000-cycle minimum, bi-directional card reader. The user can swipe credit cards in either direction to complete the transaction, eliminating confusion while providing comfort.
With the current strong market demand for smart phone MSRs, it is more important than ever to choose a proven and trusted MSR manufacturing partner such as ID TECH.
Read more about the iMag and about the UniMag for other smart phones.
Mobile payments and promotions
ViVOtech has solutions that will enable the mobile retail revolution
Mobile marketing and payments are set for strong growth beginning in 2011. In fact retailers are expected to send approximately three billion dollars worth of 'mobile coupons' to phone users in 2011, according to Juniper Research. Juniper also expects mobile phones equipped with Near Field Communications (NFC) technology to generate over $112 billion worth of payment transactions in 2014.
Retailers will be able to leverage mobile phones to reach consumers like never before and change the consumer shopping experience forever using mobile phones by:
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Driving traffic to stores via targeted and location-based promotions
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Increasing use of profitable prepaid cards
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Allow automated redemption of coupons stored in the phone
The ViVOpay 8800 and
8600 NFC enabled retail pin pads are the first devices to enable the mobile revolution for retailers around the world. These PCI 2.1-certified payment acceptance devices are ready for mobile payment and promotions usage today, along with secure contactless and mag-stripe card payments.
More about the ViVOpay 8800
More about the ViVOpay 8600
March 2010 Featured Articles
POSDATA Supports ViVOtech 8600 and 8800 Signature Capture Terminals
 You can now use POSDATA as your source for the repair (warranty and non-warranty) for your customers who are purchasing ViVOtech 8600 and 8800 terminals.
POSDATA provides basic repair services as well as offering our advance exchange overnight services and other custom service offerings.
As a POSDATA dealer you will be able to receive discounts on these services to be able to resell them to your customers.
For more information,
see our news release or contact your POSDATA payment terminal salesperson.
PCI 1.3 vs. 2.0 vs. 2.1.... What Does It All Mean?
 By now, I'm sure you've all been exposed to the talk about PCI 1.3 terminals, PCI 2.0 terminals, PCI 2.1 terminals and why one is better than the other. Since this year's National Retail Federation show this January, the landscape has become a little bit clearer. For those of you who want to know more about the PCI mandates and what they mean to you and your multilane customers,
read on.
What Your Customers Need to Know Now:
POSDATA to Host PCI Roundtable at RetailNOW
POSDATA, a RSPA Certified Retail Technology Provider, will again be exhibiting at the RSPA's RetailNow 2010 in the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas this July.
In addition to showing our dealers, ISPs and VARs the latest in payment terminal technologies, we will be hosting a PCI Roundtable discussion. This roundtable will feature vendors and industry experts discussing what PCI V2.X means to your customers.
You'll get the straight scoop on what your customers need to do when July 1, 2010 has come and gone.
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Are they liable in the event of a breach?
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What are their limits of liability?
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How can you help them?
As in recent years, we look forward to talking to all of you and being your trusted source for information on where our channel business is going with payments. Look for an invitation from POSDATA and our participating vendors as we get closer to July. For more information,
contact your POSDATA payments salesperson.
October 2009 Featured Articles
VISA TDES Seminar Recap
In early September, Visa held a webinar about TDES compliance and Visa best practices.
Get a PDF version of the slide presentation. Please pay particular note to pages 11-17. Contact your POSDATA account manager for any additional information you need, or send us an email at
sales@posdata.com
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