Hypercom Equipment

Hypercom equipment consistently delivers functionality and quality

By Chris Perrin, Principal, Common Dialogue Enterprises, Inc.

Hypercom equipment, produced by Hypercom Corporation, can provide nearly every type of credit card and point of sale (POS) technology you need. Hypercom products include:

Hypercom S8 and S9 series PIN Pads,
The P4100 touchscreen PIN pad
Optimum payment terminals
Smart card readers
Wireless, dial-up and Ethernet options for their terminals
Various receipt printers for Hypercom POS equipment

The chances are, if you have paid for something with a credit card recently, your credit card was entered into Hypercom equipment. Despite the wide range of Hypercom equipment available, Hypercom supplies do not sacrifice quality for quantity. With the company's wide range of product offerings, Hypercom equipment is consistently at the forefront of technology, security certifications and usability. Hypercom POS equipment is often used in retail locations not because of a low price point, but because people trust it to get the job done.

Find security information on Hypercom products

Never forget that Hypercom equipment pads are recording, storing, and transmitting credit card transactions. If that information were to be stolen, the potential ramifications for the company that lost the information would be disastrous. Some small businesses have had to close their doors because of carelessness when storing credit card information.
Try: Do your homework on security. Hypercom equipment has been granted Class A status from National Processing Company, a merchant services company. This means that Hypercom passed a rigorous set of tests to prove that their technology could not be hacked. Hypercom also submitted their wireless PIN pads for certification by companies like Visa, American Express, and MasterCard.

Buy Hypercom equipment online

The credit card processing and PIN pad industry is very well represented online. Hypercom distributors are actively competing to keep prices low so that you purchase Hypercom equipment from them.
Try: Comparison shop. Get Hypercom product pricing from Merchant Warehouse, a site which claims to have the lowest price on equipment anywhere. They carry a wide array of Hypercom equipment and other products as well. Ensight Merchant Services also has a wide catalog of available Hypercom products. Use these two sites and others, to find the best price on Hypercom equipment from Hypercom POS product distributors.

Know who is using Hypercom equipment

Buy Hypercom POS products with confidence knowing who else has chosen Hypercom products for their storefronts and billing departments. Not only have the major clearing houses and credit card companies certified them, major governments have selected them for their credit card transactions.
Try: Research who is trusting Hypercom equipment. Both the governments of Canada and Sweden have tapped Hypercom products in their health care administrations. There is a certain confidence level that comes with knowing that the technology you are using for your credit card processing is powering major governmental organizations.

Before you buy Hypercom POS equipment, know who will fix it. Hypercom equipment is traditionally reliable, but if your business depends on it working, it cannot be down for long.
Know what you need from your Hypercom products before you buy them. This way you can buy exactly what you need.
Hypercom equipment tends to be backwards compatible, which means if you upgrade your Hypercom POS supplies, you usually will not need to upgrade your software.

Hypercom Equipment