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There have been some changes in the rules governing the acceptance
of payment cards by point of sale systems. Because of these
new rules being introduced by the banks it is necessary that
the Soft-EFT software is upgraded to ensure that Soft-EFT
is compliant with the new rules. The changes will become mandatory
as of 1st July 1997, it is therefore important that current
software is upgraded as a matter or urgency.
The update process will make changes to the following areas
of the transaction processing cycle.
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Extended service code checking. The data on the magnetic
stripe of payment cards includes a field called the service
code. These fields will be changed to make way for chip
cards.
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Extended expiry date checking. Soft-EFT will now allow
expiry dates up to 20 years in the future, this used to
be limited to 7 years. All Commidea products are already
year 2000 compliant.
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Visa Electron & Switch Solo cards. These card schemes
have been disabled as it is necessary for merchants to
enter into separate agreements before they can accept
these types of card.
In addition, the following changes have been made as part
of the continued product development programme:
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The server programs (HCF, S30Eng and S30Net) have now
been combined into one (S30Net) which has a resident size
of about half that used by its predecessors.
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S30Net now logs significant events (particularly communications
events) to text files. This allows easier fault diagnosis.
These files are kept in the shared directory (along with
NetCtrl.dat) and are called SLog.mon, SLog.tue etc.
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The copy protection system on the new server programs
has been changed so that the number of points of sale
and the communications method can be protected. In future
therefore, two checksums will be issued for MU35 systems.
The current update makes the assumption that the site is
running at most 3 PoS and that authorisations are obtained
via modem. Please let us know if you have sites with different
requirements so that we can issue an appropriate checksum.
For further details about obtaining an update to your Soft-EFT
system
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