By Andrew Russell, President of Sound Payments – There is no doubt that station owners are busy. They are multi-taskers and often spend long hours working. Updating their pumps for EMV is not an attractive venture for them. They see it as investing in something...
By: Andrew Russell, CEO of Sound Payments – Originally published on New York Association of Convenience Stores STOREfronts Online – As many know, gas stations have been asked to adhere to a federal mandate to enable EMV payments at the pump or the stations...
By: Mike White, VP of Petro Sales at Sound Payments – Originally posted on CFCA – There is no doubt that stations across California have faced unusual times and hardships the past year or so. COVID-19 presented many challenges for owners, and it seems that...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (July 22, 2021) – Sound Payments, a technology company in the petroleum and payments industries, welcomed Mike White as its Vice President of Sales for the Petroleum Channel. Mike will lead and grow a team of professionals that will support...
By: Bill Pittman, Senior Vice President, Petro Solutions – Most people in this industry are aware that after several postponements, the deadline for the liability shift happened on April 17th, 2021. Station owners are now fully liable for any chargeback...
By: Bill Pittman, Senior Vice President of Petro Solutions – Originally published on Fuel Market News – The EMV liability shift deadline is April 16–17, 2021. What does this mean for gas stations? Barring a last-minute extension by the credit card companies, station...
Sound Payments Petro Solutions partner Freedom Electronics is now providing Easy Pump kits utilizing the Sound Easy Pump™ technology, making EMV at the pump even more simple to achieve. The Freedom Easy Pump kits, powered by Sound Payments, has UL1238 approved...
By: Bill Pittman, Senior Vice President of Petro Solutions – Originally published on Pennsylvania Petroleum Association News – Stations in Pennsylvania will have a busy period ahead of them as the EMV quickly approaches this month. According to the Conexxus survey...
By Bill Pittman, Senior Vice President of Petro Solutions – Originally published on CSP Daily News – As we get closer to the EMV liability shift deadline of April 2021, I wanted to provide some guidance and education around the top concerns from station...
By Bill Pittman, Senior Vice President, Sound Payments Petro Solutions, Originally published on California Fuels & Convenience Alliance With numerous industry surveys released last year and this year, it is clear that stations are hesitant to upgrade their pump to...
Originally published on Digital Transactions – By Peter Lucas – National Retail Solutions, a POS platform provider for independent convenience stores, is reselling an EMV at the pump retrofit kit from Sound Payments Inc. under its own brand that can...
By Bill Pittman, Senior Vice President of Petro Solutions – Originally posted in the Summer 2020 PMAA Journal – The EMV liability mandate for pay at the pump has been extended six months to April 2021. This is the third extension and more than likely the...
By Bill Pittman, Senior Vice President, Petro Solutions – Originally published in the WPMA Autumn 2020 Newsletter – There’s no doubt that we have faced some unusual months and the future as a result of impacts from COVID-19 is somewhat uncertain. We are...
Originally published in the Nilson Report, August 2020 – Sound Payments will bring EMV-compliant card payments to gasoline pumps in the U.S. NRS offers a POS platform to gas stations, liquor stores, and tobacco shops. Sound Easy Pump adds EMV card acceptance...
Working to Enable EMV at the Pump for More Stations – JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (September 1, 2020) – Sound Payments, a multi-channel technology company and Freedom Electronics, a provider of parts for fuel dispensers, point of sale systems and automatic tank gauges,...
Originally posted on Digital Transactions – Sound Payments Inc., a multichannel technology provider that offers point-of-sale solutions for the petroleum industry, expects its partnership with National Retail Solutions, a subsidiary of IDT Corp., to accelerate...
PRESS RELEASE: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (August 6, 2020) – Sound Payments, a multi-channel technology company and National Retail Solutions (NRS), a subsidiary of publicly traded IDT Corporation and a leading provider of a Point of Sale network plus NRS PAY credit card...
PAX Technology and Sound Payments are proud to announce they were honored with a 2020 Visa U.S. Qualified Tap to Pay Point of Sale Program Award for offering an optimal tap to pay point of sale experience. Their combined Tap to Pay Solution provides customers with the...
Published in FPMA’s Fueling Florida’s Future e-News – By Raymond Prothero, Vice President, Products and Programs, Sound Payments Petro Solutions – The deadline to enable EMV at the pump is only months away. Just recently, Visa reiterated that the October...
By Bill Pittman, Senior Vice President of Petro Solutions – Originally posted in on digitaltransactions.net and Digital Transactions February Issue – The deadline for converting gas stations to EMV is fast approaching, and this time there won’t be an...
Community and Industry Leaders Celebrate Sound Easy Pump and Job Creation – JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Jan. 29, 2020) – Sound Payments, a multi-channel technology company, opened an office in St. Petersburg, Florida that will support sales and operations for Petro...
By Bill Pittman, Senior Vice President Petro Solutions – Originally posted on RSPA Historically POS systems have been complex with different hardware and software that all had to be installed and configured correctly to all work together. But things have been...
By Ray Prothero, VP Products & Programs, Petro – The convenience-store industry is less than 10 months away from having to comply with the latest credit-card security standards at fuel pumps. By Oct. 1, 2020, gasoline retailers must integrate chip-enabled...
From VISA Security Alert November 2019 – In August and September 2019, Visa Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) investigated two separate breaches at North American fuel dispenser merchants. The attacks involved the use of point-of-sale (POS) malware to harvest...
By Ray Prothero, VP Products & Programs, Petro – As we approach the end of 2019, we begin to look at goals and needs for the next year. The Petroleum Industry will have a busy year ahead. Approximately $2 million fueling points are not EMV compliant. The...
EMV Easy Pump is a Proven Solution that is Penetrating the Market JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Sept. 26, 2019) – Sound Payments Petro Solutions, the software and hardware provider of Sound Easy Pump™, will introduce additional solutions for C-stores and the petroleum...
Sound Payments Shows Commitment to Setting Standards for the Petroleum Industry Hosts Petroleum Non-Profit Conexxus in Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Aug. 29, 2019) – Sound Payments is committed to setting standards in the petroleum industry and was pleased to host...
By Peter Lucas (Digital Transactions) – With almost 18 months to go, the petroleum industry is having a hard time with a crucial EMV deadline. Not many gas stations are expected to make it. Here’s why. It’s halftime in the runup to the October 2020 deadline set...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (March 6, 2019) – Sound Payments Inc. will introduce its multi-point, cloud-based retrofit payment solution for the petroleum industry at the Southeast Petro-Food Marketing Exposition today. With the petroleum industry mandating the move to...
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