Payment Trends Take New Directions in 2024

Payment trends developing in 2024 include real-time, biometric, crypto, and P2P payments as well as continued adoption of digital wallets and buy now, pay later.
How to Improve Checkout Experiences Online and In-Store

Frictionless, personalized checkout experiences can help build customer satisfaction and loyalty both in-store and online.
It’s Never Too Early to Start Preparing POS Systems for the Holiday Shopping Season

VARs and ISVs can advise retailers on how to boost sales during the holiday shopping season by expanding point of sale (POS) system capabilities.
How Businesses Can Improve Point of Sale Security

Point of sale security fundamentals include PCI compliance and reducing PCI scope with network segmentation, semi-integrated payments, and tokenization.
What PayFacs Need to Know When Moving to Card-Present Payments

PayFacs expanding services to card-present payments must build a partner network to provide certified payment hardware, device management, and omnichannel reporting.
How to set up Google Pay in Production
Follow the steps below to setup your merchants once you’ve completed the Google Pay Datacap integration. The following steps are required to obtain a valid Google Pay business ID to enable Google Pay on your merchant’s website or hosted checkout page. Google requires screenshots that show how the Google Pay button is presented on the […]
How to Improve Self-checkout’s Reputation

Some retailers are pulling back support for self-checkout. Here are things you should consider to improve self-checkout’s reputation.
How Legislation Could Impact Payments Regulations in 2024 and Beyond

New and pending payments regulations will impact how merchants do business – and the technology they use to stay compliant.
SERV NOT ALLOWED:512
“SERV NOT ALLOWED:512” is a general error that applies to the TransArmor settings for a Fiserv (First Data) account. Through Datacap’s NETePay Hosted platform, a Universal End-to-End Encryption PAN key is available such that the same key can be used with any supported backend processor. But when using Datacap’s “classic” implementations, End-to-End Encryption is unique […]
Not Certified for Kernel (083800)
When certifying Ingenico PIN Pads to a processor, a particular EMV Kernel is used. For Ingenico TETRA devices, this kernel is wrapped within the UPP application. Currently supported UPP applications can be found in Datacap’s Compatible Devices. For new devices, there are 2 potential causes for this error; A non-supported (uncertified) version of UPP is […]