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Actinic: Actinic Payments Launches, Providing Affordable PCI DSS
Compliance for Ecommerce Stores
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
RDATE:15052008
West Byfleet, Surrey -- Actinic, the UK expert in ecommerce for small
and medium businesses, today announces the release of a new card
payment system, Actinic Payments, for Actinic ecommerce stores. For
full details see www.actinic.co.uk/payments.
The service is powered by the Creditcall payment infrastructure,
arguably the most robust and reliable in the industry, with 100% up
time since 2005. Actinic Payments enables small and medium businesses
to meet the latest banking security standards at a very reasonable
cost. It offers full Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI
DSS) Level 1 certification, across the board 3D-Secure compatibility
and integration with all major banks. Actinic Payments comes in a
highly competitive range of price bands designed to suit different
business sizes with differing order volumes.
Used with Actinic's award-winning ecommerce products, Actinic Payments
provides high levels of efficiency for the merchant, with most common
payment functions accessible directly from the order-processing
application. These include pre-authorisations, refunds, voids and
additional payments -- all achieved without storing any payment card
details in-house. The system also offers payment processing for mail
order / telephone order (MOTO), providing a complete multi-channel
payment processing system. Appropriate merchant accounts are required.
According to Actinic CEO Chris Barling, "With the introduction of
Actinic Payments all Actinic merchants now have access to a one-stop
shop where any technical or operational issues can be resolved with a
single phone call. Yet the service is very cost competitive while
offering easier order and payment processing. We are convinced that it
will be a winning formula, and this certainly seems to be the case
based on our early discussions with customers."
For Creditcall, CEO Peter Turner comments, "We are very pleased that
Actinic chose us as their payment partner. From the beginning of the
discussions, it was clear that Actinic intended to offer a service that
was superior to anything comparable, which fitted well with
CreditCall's established policy of providing customers with the best
solutions available. The partnership will allow Actinic's customers to
benefit by having affordable access to a world-class payment gateway."
Charges
Contract price: GBP100 per annum Setup: GBP20 Transactions included 800
per annum; 39p per additional transaction
Contract price: GBP20 per month Setup: GBP50 Transactions included 350
per month; 10p per additional transaction
Contract price: GBP40 per month Setup: GBP50 Transactions included 600
per month; 8p per additional transaction.
Higher volumes can attract lower fees.
Sign up fees will be waived until 31st July 2008.
Operational details For the technically minded, Actinic Payments,
powered by Creditcall, is based on four distinct geographic server
locations across two continents, with fully automated failover/recovery
between locations.
The entire network has distributed denial of service (DDOS) protection
already in place. All system updates are performed on a rolling basis,
resulting in no downtime for planned or unplanned maintenance or
service failure since 2005. Service uptime is always expected to exceed
99.9%.
The service has been PCI DSS Level 1 certified since December 2005 and
is fully 3D Secure (Verified by Visa and Mastercard SecureCode) ready.
The service works with merchant accounts from Barclaycard, HSBC, Lloyds
Cardnet, Natwest/RBS Streamline, HBOS and Elavon / Alliance and
Leicester.
Press contacts: Bruce Townsend, marketing manager, Actinic. 0845 129
4800, btownsend@actinic.co.uk
Actinic PR: Jane Lee, Dexterity. +44 (0)1273 470199, jane.lee at
dexterity.co.uk
About CreditCall
CreditCall (www.creditcall.co.uk) is a specialist credit and debit card
payment services provider serving the ecommerce, unattended terminal,
ATM markets. Operating a global processing network with processing
nodes and bank connections in the US and Europe, the CreditCall network
is one of the most resilient outside the banking industry. With PCI DSS
Level 1 cross-region certification, CreditCall delivers world-class
reliability, performance and security, and is the processing partner of
choice for companies requiring website payments or deploying virtually
any kind of unattended card acceptance terminals.
About Actinic:
Founded in 1996, Actinic (www.actinic.co.uk) is a British company
specialising in helping small and medium retailers trade, both online
and offline, using its ecommerce and electronic point of sale (EPOS)
packages.
Actinic offers ecommerce products for web designers and self-builders,
including both web-based and desktop solutions. The range includes
Actinic Enterprise, Actinic Business, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Express
and Actinic Designer. Actinic powers more UK ecommerce sites than any
other company. Some better known Actinic users include the Royal Opera
House, Land of Leather and the Royal Navy.
Actinic EPOS systems give a comprehensive feature set that is straight
forward to operate at great value prices. The range extends from a low
cost, single till installation for the smaller store, to integrated
multi-till and multi-site systems with head office functionality for
centralised product, stock and price updating and reporting.
Actinic solutions can be implemented by the user, through a network of
third party specialists, or by Actinic itself through its Business
Services division.
Trademarks: Actinic, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Business, Actinic Express
and Actinic Designer are registered trademarks of Actinic Software
Limited.
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