SparkBase, the industry’s leading private label stored-value platform, have completed development and Class-A certified the Hypercom T4100 terminals to their next-generation gateway.
“We’ve had a T4100 app certified in late 2005, but we found the code that Hypercom used for the framework was pretty brittle when we with our upcoming gateway limits” said Doug Hardman, CEO of SparkBase. “Our ISOs were asking for it, but we knew that our next-gen gateway was around the corner, and we’d need to re-build it anyway. Initially, we just wanted to modify our existing code” said Hardman. “Once we looked at it, we decided that in re-writing it with the new Hypercom framework, we’d be able to make the source available to several other new terminals that Hypercom is working on. Now we have two next-generation technology pieces working together.”
After the latest SparkBase gateway was deployed in late June on 2008, development of the new T4100 application was in full-swing. Because SparkBase develops everything in-house, this process went quickly.
“SparkBase’s Class A certification of the T4100 further validates this best-of-breed product’s advanced engineering, features and functions, expands our long-standing relationship with SparkBase, and gives merchants the ability to accept gift card transactions with plug and play simplicity,” said Lisa Shipley, senior vice president and managing director of Hypercom North America. “We are delighted to help one of the world’s largest stored-value processors better serve their customers’ needs.”
Development is expected to be completed on the T4200 series in the coming weeks, followed by multi-lane versions of the software.
About SparkBase – SparkBase entered the stored-value industry in early 2004 as the first truly independent gift and loyalty processing network. SparkBase continues to lead in innovation with its proprietary gateway, using patent pending technologies for processing stored value transactions with traditional cards, and new mobile payments methods. Developed in house at their headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, SparkBase is a leader in gift and reward processing. For more information, visit sparkbase.com.
About Hypercom:
Global payment technology leader Hypercom Corporation delivers a full suite of high security, end-to-end electronic payment products and services. The company’s solutions address the high security electronic transaction needs of banks and other financial institutions, processors, large scale retailers, smaller merchants, quick service restaurants, and users in the transportation, healthcare, prepaid, unattended and many other markets. Hypercom solutions enable businesses in more than 100 countries to securely expand their revenues and profits.
