SHAZAM Selects Hypercoms High Speed Card Payment Technology

The SHAZAM network, has selected and is deploying global payment technology leader Hypercom Corporations ICE Plus card payment terminals and technology in support of SHAZAMs new prepaid giftcard program.SHAZAMs gift card program provides a cost-effective solution for independent merchants. Merchants using the gift card program receive the functionality they need, along with a turnkey implementation. Merchants also benefit from lower administrative costs, increased efficiency and convenient electronic handling, recording and reporting. Increased Revenues for ISOs and Merchants Helping businesses increase revenues and profits is a major goal for Hypercom, and the global payment technology leaders feature-rich HyperSmart application set, now certified or in-certification with all major processors, and card payment terminals play a key role in delivering on that goal. Hypercoms feature-packed Visual HyperWare Developers Toolkit, an open application development environment, allows software developers and VARs to quickly create or customize value-added, revenue-generating applications for Hypercom terminals using Microsofts popular Visual Studio? platform and Hypercoms PC emulator. Businesses can then use those applications and more to offer new products and services such as prepaid, electronic benefits transfer, sports licensing and an array of other products not traditionally associated with card payment terminals.