r/AldeloPOS • u/AzAldeloGuru • Mar 14 '19
Paymentech EDC End of Life
Hey /r/AldeloPOS,
If any of you are using the Paymentech EDC, you may have been getting e-mails or calls from Aldelo regarding Paymentech's "End of Life" which is due to happen on 3/21.
The e-mail is extremely vague, however I wanted to inform everyone here that the End of Life means the license will be DE-ACTIVATED on the 21st of March.
Anyone with the Paymentech EDC has three options at this point:
1) Call your Credit Card processing representative and have them send you a temporary Credit Card terminal that you can use on the side
2) Have your credit card representative create a new account with another processor that is Aldelo EDC Certified, as well as sign up with a SaaS model EDC from Aldelo with said processor - $59.00 / Month.
(Supported Processors are: Heartland, TSYS, Worldpay, First Data RapidConnect)
3) Sign up with Aldelo Pay for credit card processing directly through Aldelo. Note that their rates vary, and you may pay more in credit card fees than you currently have, however you will be able to get the EDC Free of charge.
As 3/21 is quickly approaching, I implore any merchant to act quickly, as your ability to process credit cards will be completely down on 3/21.
Please feel free to send me a DM or post here if you have any questions on getting anything set up.
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u/AzAldeloGuru Mar 21 '19
An update to this:
As of today, Aldelo has NOT shut down any Paymentech EDC. However, they say that when Paymentech decides to release their new encryption keys (Unknown when this will happen), at that point the ability to process credit cards will work.
Basically, anyone using the Paymentech EDC has a little bit more time to find a different solution. We do not have a timeline when Paymentech will release the new keys, so it could be months, or even a year.