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Developing for EMV, Part I

ID TECH makes and markets a wide variety of payment devices, almost all of which, nowadays, are compatible with "chip...

Unattended Payment Solutions: What You Should Know

Self-service or "unattended" credit card transactions are increasingly popular, not just at ATMs and gas pumps, but in a bewildering...

Falling Back to MSR with a Keyboard-Mode EMV Reader

In previous posts, I've mentioned ID TECH's patent-pending Augusta chip-card reader, which can run an EMV transaction in as little...

Understanding Terminal Types

When selecting a card reader, or before starting a Level 3 EMV certification, it's important to know what kind of...

Getting Started with ID TECH’s Universal SDK

One of the nice things about choosing a credit card reader made by ID TECH is that integration of the...

Tools for Payment Device Integration: Encrypt/Decrypt Tool

ID TECH makes available a number of excellent free utilities for anyone involved in developing payment apps using our products....

Tools for Payment Device Integration: UDemo

Payment-app developers who need to fast-track the integration of ID TECH card readers into their POS (or other) systems can...

Tools for Payment Device Integration: Parsomatic

Integrating a payment peripheral into a POS app (or other payment app) can be challenging, even under the best of...

“Can You Sell Me a PCI DSS Certified Reader?” is...

Here at ID TECH, we get a lot of technical questions about the payments business. People are sometime confused about Payment Card Industry...