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Blackwell starts new payment chapter with YESpay’s EMBOSS solution
Published 30th June 2009
30 June, 2009, London – Blackwell, the UK’s leading academic bookseller, has implemented YESpay’s PCI: DSS compliant EMBOSS solution, to provide secure Chip & PIN payments across its 160 EPOS tills in 50 UK stores.
The EMBOSS service integrates with ITIM’s EPOS technology which securely supports all Chip & PIN payments. YESpay delivered a quick turnaround and saved Blackwell over 3 months in bank accreditation and PCI approval time, as its EMBOSS Bureau Service is a pre-accredited solution, which has also enabled them to significantly reduce the cost of becoming PCI compliant.
Victor Smith, IT Manager, at Blackwell, said, “The adoption of YESpay’s EMBOSS payment solution means that we don’t have the burden of complying with PCI standards ourselves. It has saved us time and money, as well as offering further business benefits. We now have the ability to view critical business information online through a portal on the YESpay website, which provides us with visibility on sales data.”
He continued, “The payment solution will also guarantee our customers with a fast, and secure method of payment, improving our customer service offering.”
Rohit Patni, EVP Sales and Marketing, YESpay, said, “In outsourcing its payments, Blackwell has relinquished the responsibility, hassle and expense of taking on an in-house system. It has also considerably cut the costs of having to conduct any formal bank approval and complying with PCI requirements, which can take months to process.”
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI: DSS) has been introduced in a bid to secure cardholder data. PCI secures cardholder data that is stored, processed or transmitted by merchants and processors. The standard specifies 12 requirements for security, technology and business processes, and reflects most of the usual best practices for securing sensitive information.
About Blackwell:
Blackwell is the leading academic bookseller in the UK with 44 outlets across England, Scotland and Wales. It has built an international reputation for bookselling excellence with links to academic institutions and libraries around the globe and has continued to expand its UK base on High Streets and in university campuses up and down the country. Blackwell is also a leading supplier of academic books to Libraries across the world.
In 1995, www.blackwell.co.uk became the first transactional online bookstore in the UK. In 1998, Blackwell opened its central London flagship store in Charing Cross Road, the book-lovers’ Mecca. Since this time, two flagship stores, Broad Street and Charing Cross Road, have both won Chain Bookseller of the Year at the Nibbies, the annual British Book Awards and also The Bookseller - Bookselling chain of the year and Retail chain of the year 2007.
Today, Blackwell has been trading for over 130 years from its world-famous flagship store at Broad Street in Oxford. Its staff continues to be renowned for their expertise, depth of knowledge and love of books since the first Blackwell shop opened its doors.
About YESpay
YESpay is a global payments services company providing highly secure and scalable EMV Chip & PIN, contactless and magnetic credit / debit card, e-commerce and gift card payment processing services to independent and multi-chain merchants. It provides outsourced management payment services anywhere in the world to traditional high street stores, hospitality, leisure, fuel, mail order and web environments.
Through EMBOSS™, its Gateway to Managed Payment Services, merchants can quickly accept integrated card payments within their EPOS tills, kiosks, and hospitality payment systems as well as enhance their websites for on-line payments with minimal capital investment and low on-going services costs. EMBOSS is an on-line IP-based payment processing service that has been pre-accredited (generically) by major card Acquirers in Europe and North America (including Barclaycard Business, HSBC, HBOS, Lloyds Cardnet, Streamline, Ulster Bank, Elavon, PBS, Amex and Diners). In addition, YESpay’s EMBOSS service is fully end to end certified to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) Level 1 as mandated by Visa and MasterCard.
YESpay’s EasyV-Suite of card payment products are innovative and cost-effective solutions for EPOS, Kiosk, Hospitality, Mobile and Internet Websites that combine with the YESpay hosted EMBOSS payment service to enable their merchants to perform credit or debit card payments in both card-present and card-not-present environments.