USA Technologies has launched a new contactless debit card acceptance reader, ePort G9 with Interac Flash, in Canada.
Unattended retail businesses can use the ePort G9 to accept consumer payments made using Interac Flash-enabled bank debit cards.
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ePort G9 capabilities
ePort G9 is a two-piece card reader and telemetry system designed to be compatible with Interac Flash contactless debit solution. It accepts both NFC-enabled cards and standard magnetic stripe credit cards.
The card reader’s hardware is supported by the ePort Connect and Seed suite of services.
USA Technologies CSO Michael Lawlor said: “We believe that the addition of ePort G9 with Interac Flash to our suite of solutions will help our customers increase sales and improve customer satisfaction. Furthermore, it will ensure superior data protection and fast transaction processing.”
The company said that ePort G9 transmits encrypted data to service provider USALive. It also enables fast authorisation response and facilitates easy integration with most of the VMS systems.
Since USALive and the Seed platform have been integrated, the machine and optimisation data is available on USA Technologies online portals.
In a study of 100,000 machines conducted in 2015 over one year, ePort G9 was found to have led to an increase of around 28% in average annual cashless sales in the unattended, self-serve retail market
