Ingenico S.A.’s new iSC220 and iSC250 point-of-sale terminals will accept magnetic stripe and both contact and contactless chip card payments, the terminal maker announced Jan. 4. The terminals, which also can capture signatures, go on sale later this quarter.
Ingenico envisions multilane merchants as the primary buyers of the devices. Both terminals have screens that display transaction commands and marketing messages, but the iSC220’s screen is monochrome and the iSC250 displays color images, the France-based company says.
Merchants may order the iSC220 terminal with the contactless reader, but it is not upgradeable after-purchase. The iSC250 is available with an optional factory-installed contactless reader, but merchants also may add a contactless reader later after they install the terminal, Ingenico says.
Both devices comply with the PIN Transaction Security standard maintained by the PCI Security Standards Council.
Inclusion of multiple payment technologies into a single device is the future of POS terminals, Mercator Advisory Group Inc. noted an October report (
The core physical characteristics of a POS terminal–the screen, PIN pad and mag-stripe reader–will not change, but the devices likely will be built from scratch with other acceptance technology, such as smart card and contactless-payment readers, David Fish, a Mercator analyst, noted in the report.
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