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ACK News
Sharing pinPAD's
Roving PinPAD, many to few
A new feature added to the ACK product range allowing a single pinPAD to be shared between many tills or a single till being accessed by many pinPAD's. Great for use in applications where the transaction numbers are low but the sale value high or perhaps the reverse scenario in hospitality sites where a single till could support a number of pinPAD’s distributed around table waiting staff for example.
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Don't touch, contactless is on its way >More
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ACK work with The Works >More
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IFSF standard now supported for simple integration in fuel forecourt
market >More
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Windows CE support announced for ACKTerm >More
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Musgrave Group switch to ACK >More
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IP Connectivity, the ACK view
Increasing numbers of Merchants are now looking to take advantage of their investment in broadband technology. Adding EFT to this investment can pay dividends in speed and running costs. >More
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Reasons to consider a managed service from Datacash
Datacash can provide merchants with the following reasons to consider using their services;
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PCI-DSS – DataCash operates a fully PCI DSS compliant service, and by
utilising its services customers will remove some of the issues and
significant costs that they face to become compliant. DataCash will
contract with customers to remain PCI-DSS compliant through the term
of the contract.
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DataCash offer a complete payment solution covering both cardholder
present and cardholder not present including MOTO and E-commerce
transactions. By bringing all a companies transactions within one
agreement economies of scale can show overall cost reductions.
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DataCash also offer a real time online reporting system, which will
show its clients all transactions regardless of where they originate
from, thus giving significant benefits in terms of reducing
reconciliation time and accuracy allowing staff to be more productive
or redeployed entirely to other tasks
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Datacash offer a fixed price contract for the full term for a fixed
amount of transactions, which will also include 3D Secure, a
generically accredited Chip and Pin solution, plus all the necessary
terminal Ids required to process the transaction whether CP or CNP in
a timely manner. We guarantee not to put the price up over the term of
the contract. There will be NO hidden costs and NO added extras.
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There are no annual maintenance costs.
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There are no hardware costs (aside PIN pads) so capital expenditure is
kept to a minimum.
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There are limited communications costs – customers would connect to
DataCash via the internet, potentially utilising existing broadband
circuits making greater use of this investment. Alternatively savings
could be made by switching away from more expensive methods such as
ISDN and sharing the costs on existing telephone connections.
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DataCash manage the settlement process, so there is no need for
customers to have to check settlement files have been submitted, thus
saving significant manpower, costs and ensures that funds reach the
merchants bank account in a timely fashion. Any settlement file issues
are managed by DataCash.
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DataCash represent the lowest risk option as a supplier to customers,
having a complete solution offering. For instance there is no
requirement to go to a third party for 3D secure transaction
authentication – mandatory in 2007 for any Switch or Maestro card
purchases over the web. Because all data is processed through the
DataCash gateway, it takes responsibility for maintaining the MPI log
and therefore has complete control over the process.
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Payments and fraud risk management are DataCash’s business, they are
its focus, and as such clients are guaranteed of having a “best in
class” solution.
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DataCash have their head quarters in the UK – its Directors and Senior
Management reside here – all strategic direction/decisions are made in
the UK. All development, accreditation and updates for UK acquirers
are performed within the UK. If the banks or card schemes decide to
make changes, DataCash has the ability to make these changes in the
minimum of time, because its entire support and development staff are
based here.
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DataCash is acquirer neutral, so if customers decide that they want to
change acquirer at any time, they can select their new acquirer
knowing that DataCash support all the UK entities and can switch
clients simply with no additional effort required by the merchant , as
DataCash carries out all of the work required to implement the change
of acquirer.
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DataCash operates multiple data centres – that are geographically
separated to provide optimal resilience. Each centre contains both a
production and a backup system configured to be active / active - in
short providing optimal resilience against system failures and
therefore ensuring that trading interruptions are minimised.
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The DataCash solution delivers class leading performance. The company
continues to invest on a monthly basis in ensuring its systems provide
the fastest transaction times possible (circa 2 seconds if bank
systems are performing) regardless of the volume demand placed on it
by our clients. DataCash’s system capacity is continually monitored
and increased to provide a 200% excess to accommodate unusual peaks.
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DataCash has additional solutions that can be “bolted on” to the
current offering, including risk management, fraud screening, UKash
(the ability to take cash on the internet), voucher solutions, wallet
solutions. DataCash is constantly scouring the market to identify
additional payment methods which will enable its merchants to increase
their sales and integrate those payment instruments into its gateway.
- Once signed with DataCash, clients are allocated a dedicated account manager, along with full access to our customer services team who manage any account changes.