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The Pinnacle Blog: Pinnacle Loyalty Now Supports Conexxus Integration Standards

Tuesday April 25, 2017

The Pinnacle Corporation (www.pinncorp.com), the leader in mobile, loyalty and point-of-sale integration solutions for retail convenience stores, announced today the completion of its Pinnacle Loyalty suite integration with non-Pinnacle POS solutions using the Conexxus Loyalty standard. Pinnacle has a long history in the convenience store space with integrated Loyalty rewards and their Palm Point-of-Sale system. As Loyalty has grown more and more successful and vital for customer engagement.....

Tuesday February 14, 2017

Millennial talent and technology will be the focus of Washington PostColumnist Gene Marks’ keynote address at this year’s Conexxus Annual Conference, taking place April 24-27 at the Loews Annapolis Hotel in Annapolis, Md. According to Conexxus, millennials represent a new set of values, needs and talents that sets their generation apart from previous generations. Their use of technology presents opportunities for productivity and innovation, if an organization can adapt. Marks, a small business expert, writes daily for The Washington Post.....

Thursday December 1, 2016

Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. have pushed back the deadline for installing EMV chip-card readers at gas pumps in the United States following discussions with retailers who stated they did not have enough time to complete the multibillion-dollar upgrades, reported Bloomberg Markets. "It is a priority for.....

Monday October 31, 2016

Jared Scheeler faced a tough decision this year: Spend more than $100,000 to upgrade the payment systems at his gas pumps in North Dakota or be left without protection against counterfeit cards.....

Wednesday October 19, 2016

Verifone has helped bring together mobile technology providers, POS manufacturers and convenience fuel marketers at Conexxus to establish a new Mobile API standard. Verifone is the first to adopt and deploy the standard, creating a more consumer-centric mobile commerce environment in convenience stores and at the pump, by allowing tightly coordinated interaction between mobile payment and loyalty applications.....

Tuesday October 18, 2016

Verifone (NYSE: PAY), a world leader in payments and commerce solutions, has brought top mobile technology providers, POS manufacturers and fuel marketers together at Conexxus to establish a new Mobile API standard. Verifone is the first to adopt and deploy this new standard, creating a more consumer-centric mobile commerce environment in gas stations and convenience stores—and at the pump—by allowing tightly coordinated interaction between mobile payment and loyalty applications. Working with mobile payment early adopters to.....

Monday October 3, 2016

Version 2.0 of Conexxus’ mobile standard was released late last month, which means changes to the criteria the convenience-store industry uses to handle mobile payments, specifically in relation to loyalty programs. Linda Toth, director of standards for Alexandria, Va.-based Conexxus, shared with CSP Daily News some important details to keep in mind when implementing the new.....

Wednesday September 28, 2016

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Conexxus, the convenience and fuel retailing industry’s standards non-profit group, announced the ratification and immediate release of its Mobile Payments Standard, v2.0.

The new standard allows tightly coordinated interaction between mobile payment and loyalty applications, helping to create a more consumer-centric mobile commerce environment. An additional feature is the ability to operate loyalty both in cloud or local environments, independent of how the mobile payment is transacted, which allows for multiple use cases that link myriad payment and loyalty schemes into a single, standardized data exchange platform......

Thursday August 25, 2016

Conexxus and the National ATM Council (NAC) today announced issuance of their jointly developed ATM Skimming Detection & Deterrence Guide (Guide) for use at U.S. convenience stores. The Guide was created to help ensure that America's convenience stores and retail ATM providers maintain their excellent track record for providing safe and secure transactions at in-store ATMs, despite a heightened near term card "skimming" risk from current implementation of EMV at U.S. ATMs.....

Thursday May 26, 2016

Industry standards improve profitability by reducing costs and improving competitiveness.

Standards, in my early days of retailing, were always there to set expectations, something to work by, and measure compliance success with. Then I learned about technical standards. NAXML, EDI, ISO, ARTS, PCI—and the acronyms go on. These weren’t as easy to understand and were sometimes competing with one another. But I began to discover that underlying the “geek speak” was something where gears were in motion to make technology work within a business more efficiently and in an integrated way.....