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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