STS supports Online PIN verification for Contactless transactions

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

STS Payments (STS) is pleased to announce that it now supports Online PIN verification for contactless transactions with its G8 and Touchlink software and Verifone PIN Entry Devices (PEDs).

Online PIN is mandatory for new electronic payment terminals for much of Europe and although STS have supported Online PIN for EMV (Chip and PIN) and magnetic stripe transactions for quite some time, STS needed to extend this to contactless transactions to support those of its European customers using Verifone devices running the VIPA application, such as the Vx820 and Vx680.

Being a product-led company, STS looks to invest heavily in developing its high-quality payments acceptance applications and features in order to remain at the forefront of payments innovation, and this development for G8 means that it is now suitable for use in all European countries that require Online PIN, thus providing more support to our Partners whose customers may extend into these territories.

G8 is a feature rich, highly flexible payment application that delivers high performance, secure card acceptance in-store or from a business premises. It separates payments processing logic from an EPOS or business application and has been pre-integrated with a wide variety of PIN pads, business applications, payment switches, Payment Service Providers (PSPs) and acquirers providing more choice and flexibility than any other software product of its kind.

G8 can run as a data center or cloud based payment application; provides a global payments platform with a single API; can be installed on a PC, EPOS system, countertop or mobile terminal; and is PA-DSS certified and Visa/MasterCard, EMV and PCI compliant. It securely manages the entire payment card acceptance process and interacts with devices, applications and systems as required. For more information, visit the G8 page of our website: www.stspayments.com/products/g8.

  • According to MasterCard’s transaction processing rules for 2016, the following countries require Online PIN support for Contactless transactions:

Albania

Greece

Norway

Andorra

Greenland

Poland

Antarctica

Hungary

Portugal

Armenia

Romania

Austria

Russian Federation

Azerbaijan

Isle of Man

San Marino

Belarus

Israel

Serbia

Belgium

Italy

Slovakia

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Kazakhstan

Slovenia

Bulgaria

Kosovo

Spain

Channel Islands

Kyrgyzstan

St Helena

Ascension & Tristan Da Cunha

Croatia

Sweden

Cyprus

Liechtenstein

Switzerland

Czech Republic

Tajikistan

Denmark

Luxembourg

Turkey

Macedonia

Turkmenistan

Malta

Ukraine

Moldova

Georgia

Monaco

Uzbekistan

Germany

Montenegro

Vatican City

Gibraltar

Netherlands

 

 

 

 

  • The following countries must support Online PIN from 2020 onwards, and may do so now:

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

 

  • The following countries do not need to support Online PIN:

Finland

France

Iceland

Ireland

United Kingdom

 

 

For more information on STS, G8 or any of our other products and solutions, please don’t hesitate to contact us either using the Contact form on our website: http://stspayments.com/contact-us or by emailing info@stspayments.com.

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