As of January 2018, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has mandated that all merchants and their customers must be updated to TLS 1.2 and SHA-2 encryption standards to accept and process credit cards. Failure to sw...
The key proponent for switching to EMV chip-card readers is for retailers to be able to run transactions quickly without any worry. Plus, these pinpads are less likely to be hacked — keeping your customers' card and bank information safer than eve...
Cloud-based POS software has grown in popularity over the past years, and for good reason. Designed for single store and multi-location businesses, c...
Square, Intuit, and PayPal are just some of the popular mobile POS systems that utilize magnetic stripe card readers. These readers work simply by plugging straight into the iPhone’s headphone jack. As of this month, Apple decided to officially re...
When you’re buying your next POS platform, you have a world of choices these days. Perhaps the biggest question you’re facing is whether to stick with traditional POS or go for an iPad POS platform. The question of iPad POS vs. traditional POS giv...
Since the Oct. 1, 2015, liability shift, retailers are financially on the hook for some fraudulent transactions conducted on POS terminals that don’t comply with the new Europay, MasterCard, Visa card security standard. Since that time, some merch...
Long lines during shopping aren't anything new, but shoppers may have to wait longer this year with the installation of chips in new credit cards. EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) is the new credit-card chip technology that has customers ...
