What does tokenization mean? With regards to data security, tokenization refers to the process of substituting valuable data elements with non-valuable equivalents. The basic concept behind tokenization has origins dating back thousands of years. Over the centuries any time someone felt the need to [...]
Gearing up for the first Holiday Season with EMV Guidelines: What Merchants Need to Know As the first holiday season, since the new EMV guidelines went into effect, fast approaches, merchants are faced with a potential increase in liability while many consumers celebrate increased [...]
As consumers, we encounter different credit card technology everywhere we go. Many chains have customer-facing self-service terminals, while others have screen-side point-of-sale swipers. And while they seem old-school to me, I still run into the big, blocky, behind-the-counter printer-swiper combo units almost every day, [...]
When considering ways to improve your business practices, you might not immediately think about your payment processing. Most people treat their credit card processing like their bank account, internet access, or other utilities: a necessary, generic expense. But with an advanced solution like EBizCharge, [...]
Exact Macola Credit Card Processing Together with Exact software reseller and consultancy firm The Attivo Group, we will demonstrate the functionality of our credit card processing plugin for Exact Macola 10, Exact Macola ES, and Exact Macola Progression at Exact Evolve. As one of [...]
Verifone Will No Longer Support PC Charge or Payware PC PC Charge has reached its end of line. On April 6th, Verifone announced to their partners that they will halt development, sales, and support of their computer-based credit card processing solution PC Charge in [...]
When you think of payment security as a consumer, what are the things that come to mind? You probably think of things like: Data breaches EMV chip credit cards Card skimmers on ATMs, etc. Questions about the security of mobile payments Data Breaches?! Can [...]
First Things First: What is Payment Security?PCI compliance. PCI stands for Payment Card Industry; PCI compliance is just a fancy way of saying your customers’ credit card information is stored in such a way where it’s impossible to access entire credit card numbers inside your [...]
All it takes is a couple of keystrokes on Google to see that digital wallets are hot right now. Hot, hot, hot. The fact that there doesn’t seem to be a consensus either way about the general sentiment around digital wallets only adds fuel [...]
