MasterCard Terminal ID Mandate - Deadline 12/1/2014

[acuity2011]

Anything to worry about. We use Aloha 5.3 Tableservice with one EDC license.

We have been advised by First Data that all business locations with multiple Point of Sale devices that accept MasterCard for payment will be required to transmit a unique terminal ID for each cash register/credit card terminal by December 1, 2014. Multiple POS devices means each register operating under the same Merchant ID and/or each payment terminal (example: each VX570 Terminal) depending on your Credit Card processing/Point of Sale configuration.

Since we accept payment only at the Cashier terminal I am assuming we are OK.

 

[acuity2011]

Forgot to mention. We have 5 terminals but use only 1 for cashiering.

 

[TobeThor]

Do you perform both verification and payment at the cashier POS?

 

[acuity2011]

Yes- the whole transaction is done on the cashier terminal.

 

[AlohaRoss]

While you have many computers running Aloha in your FOH. The fact is only 1 computer is processing EDC and that is the BOH computer. So you would only mean 1 unique ID is needed. In EDC for First data, the only numbers you have are your Merchant ID (MID), Terminal ID (TID) and Datawire ID (DID).

If you were using verafone or other similar device then you would have to have different MID and TID for each of those devices.

How EDC works in Aloha. The FOH sends the info to EDC, EDC then processes the request and then sends back to FOH an approval code or denial.



AlohaRoss

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[acuity2011]

Thanks AlohaRoss
Whats the highest version of EDC I can go on my Aloha 5.3 Tableservice ??

 

[dauphin2]

Unique terminal ID numbers are implemented in newer versions of Aloha/EDC 12.3, 14.1, 15.1,etc.. Each terminal being used with the Aloha system gets it's own ID number, but this is so new almost no one is using it yet.

 

[PosGuyUS]

The date was 7/15/14 according to Mercury Payment Systems. All terminals that have card readers need to be identified, not just the PC that has the software. All we know is MasterCard said they would fine merchants that don't comply. They didn't say when, why or what the fine would be. I would assume the merchant would need to be breached first but that wasn't in the report we had.
Most of the other processors didn't even tell their customers.