• Reinforcement of need for thorough scoping exercise prior to PCI DSS assessment in order to understand where cardholder data resides
• Support for centralized logging included in PA-DSS to promote more effective log management
• Validation, within certain requirements, of risk-based approach for addressing vulnerabilities, allowing organizations to consider their specific business circumstances and tolerance to risk when assessing and prioritizing vulnerabilities
• Greater alignment between PCI DSS and PA-DSS to facilitate stronger security practices.

For the detail information for changes, please visit https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/summary_of_changes_highlights.pdf

Transfs collects information regarding your sales in-store, online , mail order, phone and merchant’s current credit card processing fees and uses this information to determine the best deal out there for merchants to process credit cards.

When you sign up for the service, you will need to fill out  a form and submit it to Transfs. Once submission completed series of competing bids form credit card processing companies will be sent to you. After receiving numerous bids merchants need to review proposals in the same screen and decide on which credit card processing company is more fit for the business.

It looks like a solid product and can potentially remove the time consuming process of researching credit card processing service providers.

“…so we were meeting with some potential pos (point of sale) providers yesterday – aloha & pixel point.

pixel point seemed very nice, you can use their machines on any windows-based machine and their code is open source…according to the sales rep, anyway.  still making sure all claims are true…”

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Micros 9700 Data Extracts

“…The bigger challenge was extracting the sales data from the Micros 9700 HMS. Organizations that want to integrate their Micros 9700 sales data into Food-Trak have 3 options-

1. Contract with Micros to do it
2. Contract with their Micros vendor to do it.
3. Do it yourself.

Contracting with Micros or a vendor requires significant investment. If you are reading this because you want to integrate Micros 9700 sales data with Food-Trak data, and you have talked to your vendor, you know this is true. Also, Micros doesn’t provide the best customer support in the world”

Why do you need POS System?

“…If you believe that the company can survive without a restaurant POS system, you are completely wrong! Restaurants , can not succeed without it. Why? Since today is a different world, people look at the progress, they want better service and food quality. So, to keep competitors must swim with the stream. * Point of sale, or POS is a kind of integrated system for restaurants and retail, which can provide satisfaction for both customers and owners.”

• Ease of Use. Cashiers can be trained in minutes. With our built-in help manual and training tools, cashiers will be on the fast track to sales in no time. Each cashier has their own security settings and permissions helping insure Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. You have the ability to allow full access or block any or all users from seeing information such as financial reports or credit card numbers. With a secure log in, you can easily track all their sales and wine club signups for sales incentives.
• Quick Add. At no extra cost, new customers can be added to a mailing list or signed up for a wine club, given automatic discounts and cashed out with a printed loyalty card or wine club card in seconds while capturing their purchase history from the very first visit. Add five seconds if you want their picture on it.
• 360° Visibility. All customer information can be viewed and edited by any authorized cashier instantly. Wine club history, purchase history, billing information, favorite varietal, notes, unpaid invoices that you can even take a payment on and more. Enjoy ease of use at a cashier screen.
• Cashier Alert Notes. Notes on any customer record can pop up for the cashier when a customer record is accessed reminding them of anything about that customer. Keeping your cashiers connected with your customers will inspire a higher level of service while increasing sales.
• Flexible Discounting. Automatic discounts may be applied based on volume during a sale. The more your customer buys, the higher their discount can be. Each customer can automatically receive unique discounts that you specify. Set pricing levels for different customer types such as restaurants, local merchants, or employees.
• Gift Certificate Registration. VinNOW quickly takes payment from pre-printed gift certificates or gift cards while tracking the balance available for their next visit. Gift or loyalty cards can be printed right from our cashier screen or a customer record. Money can be added to existing gift cards.
• Multiple Payment Methods. Accept unlimited payment methods on a single sale.
• Cashier Shipping Tools. A cashier can sell a product, apply shipping rates, create a shipping label, and send a tracking number by email to your customer easily without leaving the cash register. You can even track a package yourself on a shipped order.
• Split Shipments. Cashiers can split an order into multiple shipments in a single transaction to different states and different addresses. With intuitive sales tax, VinNOW has the ability to charge the appropriate tax for each state down to the county or zip code level, even taxing the shipping charge itself for those states that require it. VinNOW also has the capability, on the same invoice, to charge your local tax for items being taken with the customer.
• Block Shipments. VinNOW has the tools to block shipments to any states you choose, keeping your business compliant.
• Destination Tax. VinNOW recognizes destination tax for those states that require it.
• Pours, Donations, Samples, and Spoils. All non sales wine can be removed from inventory by an authorized cashier with report confirmation for any or all depletion types for the day, month, week, year or date range to eliminate inventory errors.
• Fractional Quantities. For wineries with deli items or items such as fruits and vegetables, VinNOW can sell cheese or anything by the pound, ounce or gram for that fact.

PCI-DSS compliance simply a framework to prevent data loss and customer credit card data.

Every merchant has to be PCI compliant if you process credit cards.

Being PCI compliant doesn’t mean that there wouldn’t be any data breaches. It is simply best practices to eliminate such occurance. Advantage of PCI compliance is that; if you suffer from an data breach incident your fines wouldn’t be as bad as another merchant without a PCI compliant setup.

Depending on your PCI level your networks needs to be periodically scanned for malicious activity. It can be done in-house by using self assessment questionnaire or hire an outside consultant to do the necessary tasks. Here is the full list of  approved scanning vendors.

Outlined in section 2572 within Health Care Reform bill, law states that restaurants with more than 20 locations will be required to display caloric nutrition information on menus, drive-thru displays and menu boards.

Although requirements is still sculplted by the FDA,  it will be soon be a requirement for restaurant to deploy signages that are in compliance with the law.

With this expectation, restaurant should now consider digital signage more than ever. With convenience to change prices and nutrition information from a central location for more than 20 restaurant locations also allowing restaurants to be compliant with the law; digital signage offers many advantages.

Card-present (swiped) rate 2.75% + 15¢

Card-not-present (keyed-in) rate 3.5% + 15¢

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Toshiba Surveillix digital video cameras integrate with the new Surveillix software  to provide retailers advanced search and controllable alert features. With an user friendly interface, users can access transaction data and footage with only few clicks.Event Search capabilities let retailers analyze certain transactions based on items, dates and times, under one easy to use interface.