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Whether you are interfacing through pcCharge or Mercury, this is a mandatory upgrade being mandated by Visa / Master Card and American Express to become PCI Compliant.

If you have not upgraded and do NOT have the new Point of Sale in place by July 1st 2010, you will face heavy fines and the loss of your Visa / Master Card charge capabilities. There is no exception to this requirement. Your software will be TESTED by Visa / Master Card every 90 days that it is compliant!

Just so you understand, ALL Point of Sale software or any software that processes a credit card will be tested, over the Internet, at random times, in your store by the Credit Card Companies. It will test for PCI compliance. If it is not compliant, you risk large fines and revocation of your credit card processing abilities.

In an effort to help reduce cost for this upgrade, we have setup a special pricing program. The earlier you purchase your upgrade, the less it will cost you.

After over 9 months of development, testing and compliance certification, the expected final release of our Version 10 - PCI compliant version is scheduled to be released on May 15th, 2010 - There is also many new features added to the version 10 beyond just the PCI compliance.

The cost for getting PCI compliant was an enormous undertaking and very expensive cost to DotDude.com, Inc. We have attempted to keep our upgrade as low as possible and spread the development and PCI compliance cost over our existing and future customers.

Questions and Answers from the Source

upgrade cost is $425.00 - Due to slow mail and the continuing harsh economic times, we are extending our previously initial upgrade pricing.

Pricing is for EACH of your locations, by this, we mean stores. If you have more than 3 locations/stores, we will discount the above pricing by 10%. We do NOT care how many Stations at each location/store.

PCI UPGRADE ORDER FORM

Orders must be faxed to us by the dates above to receive this discount. There will be NO EXCEPTIONS to the pricing and date ranges above.

You will receive an Email confirmation of your order and an invoice for your charge within a day or so of your fax. If you do not receive this email, we either can't read your order or it was lost in cyber-space. Please make sure you get this confirmation return email in order to NOT be charged extra prices.

What's Being Added to Your Point of Sale

The below shows in brief, from the manufacturers, what are the key elements being added to the POS to handle the new PCI requirements.

Mercury Processing    Press Release

VeriFone - pcCharge

IC Verify will no longer be a supported software in Version 10

Rebate

If you are an existing Mercury user or want to switch to Mercury, there is an additional $100.00 rebate on the upgrade price, if you assign DotDude.com, Inc., as your Mercury Management Team. This applies to NEW transfers and new account setups ONLY. A $100.00 rebate will be sent to you after Mercury acceptance or your account is switched to DotDude.com, Inc. DO NOT DEDUCT the $100.00 from the above upgrade prices.

If you are using a custom version of Rocket POS, there will be additional charges for converting your custom version to a PCI compliant version. Email us with your company name, information and the approximate time the custom work was done and we will get you back a firm price on converting your custom version. Pricing for this has been falling in the $300.00 to $500.00 range per Company (not location).

Please note that some older integrated scanners may have to be replaced or upgraded to PCI compliant scanners.

Once again, if you have been working with a dealer, we suggest you contact your dealer for more information and pricing from your dealer.

Pricing above does NOT include phone technical support or corrupt data repair. Email support, is free, as always. These may be additional charges.

Anyone who orders the Point of Sale after March 1st, 2010, will get a free upgrade when released.

Mercury Supported Peripherals

1. Keyboard emulation card reader configured to append a carriage return. The MagTek MSR 21040108 was the device tested. This is a USB device. Mercury will parse out all the required Track Data. There is no additional integration work required. (It is recommended to configure the card reader to append a carriage return to the end of track data in order to enhance the user experience interaction with the user interface.)

1. For Canadian Debit, the VeriFone sc5000 and the Ingenico i3070 are supported. Both devices require serial connection.

Note: Serial to USB adapters have been tested with the above PIN Pads, yet we have discovered that not all are equally successful. The TRIPPLITE U209-000-R USB and Edgeport’s line of USB to Serial converters have proven reliable. When specifying the connection type in the PinPadConfig class, make sure to specify Serial even if you are using a USB to Serial converter.