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STS was delighted to win our first European Retail Solutions Award this year in conjunction with IBM customer, The Co-Operative Group. This award, for Best Customer Facing Technology, highlighted the original goals for STS, providing a solution which goes beyond chip and PIN.

Congratulations also must go to Whitbread for winning one of the major awards of the night, Innovative Company of the Year. Whitbread were nominated in multiple categories, including for Best Payment Solution Award with STS, IBM, Fidelity and VeriFone. We take the opportunity to have a look at how Whitbread's unique requirements were solved by its business partners. Read more...

   
1. Retail Solutions Awards
2. Whitbread Case Study
3. Support for new PIN pads
4. ITWell Mobile EPOS
5. Ollie's world - Update on contactless payments



 

STS announces that it has developed the software to provide chip and PIN functionality for the new ITWell Mobile Point of Sale terminal, the XPDA-V. Through this work, the ITWell XPDA-V POS will be available for use as an EMV Level 2 enabled mobile point of sale.

ITWell's focus has been on providing wireless solutions for retailers with large success in the Korean market. ITWell deliver a large amount of experience in the mobile POS industry helping connect customers and retailers and transacting payments securely.

ITWEll have interest from retailers and airline companies with a view to providing mobile, integrated till system based on the XPDA-V. Airline personnel will be able to process credit and debit card payments for refreshments and duty free goods and provide printed receipts, for passengers at their seats.

William Yang, Overseas Business Manager for ITWell, said "We have had great success with our mobile EPOS devices in the airline industry and ITWell expects the new device to be even more successful. The addition of EMV payments with built-in printing, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPRS will see significant success for the XPDA-V. This unit will be used in many environments and we see it as both a replacement and complimentary technology."

Cameron Olsen, Vice President of Business Development at STS, said: "At STS, we pride ourselves on the capabilities of our technology for making simple the integration of the different elements of retail systems. We're excited to be working with a partner such as ITWell who has such significant experience in the mobile EPOS market".