{"id":3630,"date":"2015-07-14T18:40:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T23:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3dmerchant.com\/blog\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2021-12-03T03:19:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T08:19:11","slug":"emv-chip-terminal-buyers-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3dmerchant.com\/blog\/pos-terminals\/emv-chip-terminal-buyers-guide","title":{"rendered":"EMV Chip Terminal Buyers Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-body\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Merchants and developers are racing to implement EMV terminals to accept chip cards ahead of the October 1, 2015 merchant liability shift deadline. Buyer beware- some &#8216;<strong>EMV Ready<\/strong>&#8216; terminals may never be certified.<\/p>\n<h2>EMV <em>READY<\/em> VS EMV <em>CERTIFIED <\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Credit card terminals advertised as<strong> EMV Ready, EMV Capable or EMV Compliant are terminals that <em>\u2018could\u2019<\/em> accept chip cards in the future<\/strong>. But, the terminal must be <span class=\"underline\">certified<\/span> to the processor. Due to the expense and time, not all terminals will be certified. If the terminal is driven by a POS application or payment gateway, both the solution and the terminal must be certified to each processor or merchant acquirer.<\/p>\n<p>Tip: Beware language like &#8220;<em>this terminal will get you ready for EMV<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The image below from First Data shows specific terminals that solutions partners have submitted that their integrating, however, there&#8217;s no guarantee any will ever be completed.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/shrinknp_800_800\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAIlAAAAJGZlMjM3MDRkLTczMWEtNDJiMC1iYTgzLWQ0ZGQ4ZTc0ZmVhZg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"278\" data-loading-tracked=\"true\" \/>CenPOS, an end to end payment engine, offers the only independent payment gateway with US EMV certified terminals available for all major processors today.<\/h2>\n<p>CenPOS has offered gateway driven certified EMV terminal solutions since January 2015. Is CenPOS right for your company, POS, or ERP?\u00a0 Click here to view the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/3Dmerchant\/emv-chipcardbuyersguide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EMV Buyers Guide.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Christine Speedy is a global authorized reseller of CenPOS, specializing in B2B, omnichannel and integrations.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merchants and developers are racing to implement EMV terminals to accept chip cards ahead of the October 1, 2015 merchant liability shift deadline. Buyer beware- some &#8216;EMV Ready&#8216; terminals may never be certified. EMV READY VS EMV CERTIFIED Credit card &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/3dmerchant.com\/blog\/pos-terminals\/emv-chip-terminal-buyers-guide\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[531,130],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pos-terminals","tag-emv-terminal","tag-verifone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3dmerchant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3dmerchant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3dmerchant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3dmerchant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3dmerchant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/3dmerchant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5702,"href":"https:\/\/3dmerchant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions\/5702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3dmerchant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3dmerchant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3dmerchant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}