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 hearing many...
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 capabilities to fuel...
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, are partnering to bring a...
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 adoption of EMV at in-pump card readers among independent gas...
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 processing, announced a partnership today...
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...
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 deadline is here to stay, which...
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 extension. What to do? EMV payments are coming to...
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 Solutions, bringing EMV to gas pumps and...
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 changing lately. Cloud computing, touch...
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 credit- and debit-card hardware and software in...
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 payment card data from fuel dispenser merchant POS...
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....
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 industry with the Sound Vault™ and...
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 Conexxus, a non-profit, member-driven technology organization dedicated to...
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 EMV by 2020, stations can cost-effectively enable EMV without full construction and...
