Owning a POS terminal has always been challenging. It requires complex hardware-design process, finding the best card readers and secure chips, finding EMV L1 and L2 kernel solutions, integrating them to hardware environment and everlasting certification processes. POS owner can’t start developing POS application and value added services unless completing these time-consuming processes. To achieve […]
What is the L2 kernel certification process for Cloud Kernel ? EMVCo_TTA_Contact_L2_admin… (2).pdf1.1 MB EMVCo defines the Cloud kernel certification as below. Attached document includes more information. In recognition that new type of devices are designed such as Cloud based solution or Merchant Server Solution and therefore application kernels are split over multiple devices, EMVCo […]
Think about a merchant who wants to use various devices to take the payment. For example, merchant may want to use mobile phone, tablet, desktop PC or a stand-alone POS terminal to take payment. And merchant wants to have the same user experience across all these devices. And merchant wants to be able to monitor […]
In today’s payment world, EMV Level 3(L3) certification is one of the most challenging and time-consuming processes for acquirers and terminal vendors. A typical L3 certification process for major brands (MasterCard, Visa, Amex, and Discover) takes between 3 and 6 months. In this article, we will analyze reasons making the process so challenging and time-consuming […]
Although EMV technology brings a lot of advantages, one side effect with it is the increasing number of field issues and complications of management of them. The field issue means that there is something unusual during an EMV contact/contactless transaction which may potentially be the reason for a transaction decline or negative user experience. Field […]
So far, there have been 2 main obstacles for smartphones to accept card-present payment transactions in retail locations : Security on the PIN entry on the phone The necessity for additional hardware to read EMV chip transactions. However, recent trends show that both of these obstacles will probably not be an issue anymore in the […]