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Creditcall & Gravity Payments
Creditcall, the EMV-ready payment gateway and EMV migration specialist, has partnered with trusted credit card processing and financial services company Gravity Payments to simplify and speed up the EMV migration process for ISVs, VARs, and developers. With the October 1st Liability Shift looming, the integration of Creditcall’s ChipDNA EMV SDKs for iOS, Android, Windows, and…
Creditcall & Diners Club
Creditcall, a payment gateway provider and EMV migration specialist, and Discover’s Diners Club announced a signed agreement to expand the acceptance of Discover and Diners Club cards worldwide.
EMV Integration
Creditcall and Lans Holdings have combined technologies to deliver a best in class EMV technology, reducing the time to market, cost and complexity of EMV certification while providing choice in EMV chip card readers and access to major U.S. processors.
Five Guys Deploys Creditcall mPOS
Creditcall EMV-ready payment gateway provider supplied its mPOS payment solution CardEase Mobile to U.S. burgers and fries chain Five Guys. The product, which comprises an mPOS SDK that allows developers to easily add payment functionality to an mPOS offer, is an integral part of a new restaurant queue busting solution for Five Guys in the UK which speeds up customer processing time and also allows for better customer interaction while they are waiting to be served. Staff in 19 Five Guys restaurants are now able to take customers’ orders and mobile payments in the queue via a tablet device that includes Creditcall’s mPOS payment solution CardEase Mobile integrated within Lineten’s NOQU queue busting app.
Creditcall Appoints North American Head
Creditcall appointed Doug Wallace Head of North America (Retail) to oversee the building of the U.S. division and Creditcall’s North America retail activity. He will also be involved in the development of banking relationships and the certification process in North America. Wallace brings to the roll more than 20 years of experience in retail POS payment systems and was most recently Vice President of Operations and Client Services North America at YESpay, where he was responsible for business development and partner relationships.
skyauth and CreditCall Deploys mPOS at Shopping Center
Cloud commerce specialist skyauth is set to launch in Europe later this month after signing its first major customer for its mPOS solution, popuppay, which uses CreditCall’s mPOS SDK and payment gateway service. skyauth will be showcasing its mPOS solution on CreditCall’s stand 435 at RBTE at London’s Earls Court on 11-12 March 2014. Working in conjunction with We Are Pop Up, a company which connects brands and businesses to short-term retail commercial space across Europe, skyauth will be providing eight pop-up retailers within the Corio shopping centre in Berlin with its popuppay mPOS solution. skyauth has developed its mPOS product to be a complete out of the box commerce solution for small and pop-up retailers with the payment functionality provided through the use of the CreditCall software development kit (SDK) http://www.cardeasemobile.com/developers.html.
Parking Boxx Integrates EMV Payment Gateway
Parking BOXX announced today their partnership with CreditCall. Parking BOXX will use CreditCall’s EMV-ready payment gateway in the Parking BOXX gated, multi-space, pay-by-phone, cashier and citation parking systems. The systems will be installed across North America with sites already live. CreditCall’s industry-leading card payment solutions are available across multiple channels, including-Multi-Space, Pay-on-Foot, Smartphone and web-based parking in the UK, USA and Canada. The company processes credit and debit card payments securely from unattended parking machines, as well as from phone-based and online parking reservation systems.
CreditCall Launches mPOS App Toolkit
CreditCall payment gateway and EMV Chip and PIN expert launched its mPOS Toolkit Partner Programme for app developers at Apps World London. The mPOS Toolkit – including the CardEase Mobile SDK (Software Development Kit) – provides app developers with the tools they need to incorporate EMV certified Mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) card acceptance within their iOS and Android business applications. Joining the CreditCall Partner Programme will provide developers a fast route to market with unique access to a revenue stream from on-going referral payments. CreditCall’s mPOS Toolkit includes the CardEase Mobile SDK – which consists of the required API, precompiled native development libraries for iOS and Android and a development guide – a fully certified and EMV approved PINpad, a test platform, a transaction management and reporting tool, and access to CreditCall’s technical support team.
CreditCall Announces New EMV Biz Director
CreditCall expands its US team with the appointment of Richard Roscher as EMV Business Development Director. Bringing with him extensive experience leading technology initiatives, new product implementations and business development within the electronic payments industry, Roscher has been involved in the payments space for over 15 years. He has worked for WorldPay and Chase Paymentech and consulted numerous major brands. His top initiative will be to lead CreditCall’s initiatives to support EMV migration in the US.
CreditCall Joins MasterCard, PayPal and Intuit on mPayment
The CreditCall CEO will join payment industry CEOs to discuss mobile commerce and the market opportunities and challenges for mobile payment acceptance apps at Apps World North America. The mobile payments track includes two panels involving representatives from Verizon, MasterCard, Intuit and PayPal. They will discuss how mobile is transforming the U.S. retail industry and look into market opportunities and challengers for payment acceptance apps. Over 5000 developers, telcos, device manufacturers and industry professionals will participate on nine targeted workshops to discuss and learn about the issues across the app ecosystem.
CreditCall Launches EMV Level 1 Software
CreditCall EMV software technology for global payments announced its EMV Level 1 (EMVL1.LIB) software library that reduces terminal development cycle time by as much as 18 months. The “EMVL1.LIB” puts EMV compliance on the fast track, giving developers the tools they need to create a reliable solution that cuts development time and reduces costs substantially. The “EMVL1.LIB” supports a growing number of smartcard interfaces, including 5V, 3V and 1.8V operations, and provides SPI interfaces, and serial port control as well as on board and off board clock support. CreditCall’s global technical support tert teams support the full integration of the new EMVL1.LIB within the customer’s software solution, which includes selection and integration of the smartcard interface in the customer’s electronic hardware.