When selecting a PC based point of sale (POS) system most restaurant and retail store owners focus on improving the speed of customer checkout or gaining better inventory control. While these functions are important, many businesses often over the look the importance of compliancy issues related to credit card processing. In fact, many businesses fail to realize that not taking the steps to ensure safe payment processing can result in a data breach that will jeopardize the security of your customer’s credit card data. In the aftermath of a data security breach not only will you lose the confidence of countless customers but your business will also incur stiff penalties and fines.

At pcAmerica we are committed to offering safe and secure integrated payment processing with our POS systems. pcAmerica has met the requirements to ensure that both Cash Register Express and Restaurant Pro Express point of sale (POS) software are Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) compliant. In fact, through a partnership with magnetic stripe reader manufacturer Magtek, pcAmerica offers encrypted swipe technology which encrypts credit card track data at the reader, ensuring the merchant’s point-of-sale never handles data in a useable format.

What is PA-DSS? The Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS), formerly referred to as the Payment Application Best Practices (PABP), is the global security standard created by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). PA-DSS was implemented in an effort to provide the definitive data standard for software vendors that develop payment applications.