White Papers

Delve deep into specific industry issues and understand how VeriFone's solutions solve the challenges many of our clients face.

Extending the Self-Service Revolution

A new generation of secure, interactive payment devices is set to revolutionise the payments landscape. Convenient, safe and easy to use, they offer vendors new ways to engage and extend services to modern techno-savvy consumers.

Payment Application Security

The Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) builds upon and expands established best practices to ensure that payment applications do not store sensitive card data. This mandated standard has requirements and ramifications for all participants in the payment industry.

Buying into a New Payment Future

Contactless solutions are transforming the payment process. Speed, expediency and increased operational efficiency have put contactless on the counter in convenience, quick service and ticketing environments.

Clamping Down on Pump Security

Gas pumps may be the weakest link in the electronic payments chain. Criminals are targeting easy to access, easy to compromise pay-at-the-pump systems. But a robust security solution is at hand.

Evaluating End-to-End Encryption: Decrypting Retail Card Data Security

Retailer environments are just too complex to completely and constantly lock down against all intruders. Encrypting cardholder data from end-to-end may be the only way to meet current security requirements. But not all encryption solutions can fully meet the task.

Make the Right Call: NFC - The Smart Call

What is Near Field Communication (NFC)? If you haven’t heard yet, you soon will. It will be all around you before you know it. This rapidly emerging short-range, wireless technology is turning millions of cell phones into convenient contactless payment devices. By making the right call, you can get your hands on a piece of the market worth an estimated $75 billion within five years.

Protecting Cardholder Data: The Elusive Goal

An innovative solution that ensures payment transactions and cardholder information are encrypted continuously at the point of sale provides retailers the most comprehensive and effective means yet of thwarting criminal attempts to capture payment card data. And it requires no changes to most POS applications or retail systems.

Making the Most of your Face Time with Retail Banking Customers

Take advantage of every interaction with your customers to more effectively cross-sell additional products and services, which will build customer loyalty and enhance your financial institution’s profitability.

Aberdeen Research - Cashing in on Contactless

As a follow-up to the December 2006 study, Retail Contactless Payment Systems: Improving Customer Retention & Loyalty, Aberdeen surveyed 225 companies in October 2007 to outline a roadmap for contactless payment implementations and measurement systems for tracking solution performance. To provide customers with convenience, 32% of the retailers surveyed have implemented a contactless payment solution. However, this study found that having an effective plan for implementation and measuring performance are critical components for success and deriving a Return on Investment (ROI).

A Better Way to PAY in Restaurants

ON THE SPOT wireless and IP-enabled payment solutions are transforming payment at the point of service in restaurant and hospitality businesses.

SCA Contactless FAQ

This document was developed by the Smart Card Alliance Contactless Payments Council to answer frequently-asked questions about contactless payments. The questions and answers inside apply only to contactless payment using contactless smart card technology, as implemented by American Express, Discover Network, MasterCard and Visa.

Better Payment at All Points of Service

Revolutionary solutions at all points of service will transform payment acceptance in the hospitality industry.

Make Paying at the Restaurant Pay Off

Wireless payment technology is set to revolutionize restaurant payment transactions. The latest handheld payment systems make paying at the table, at the car, or for delivery a reality and increase restaurant productivity and throughput.

VeriFone's Environmental Compliance Program – RoHS & WEEE

Environmental Compliance Program – RoHS & WEEE

Point-of-Sale Networks Simplified

Network broadband connections open up new opportunities.

Anti-Virus: A Critical POS Safeguard

Computer viruses and other malicious software are costing business billions of dollars annually. Rogue programmers are moving beyond PCs to mobile phones, PDAs and other devices. With financial data under assault, it is time for the payments industry to proactively address future threats.