Heron Foods Selects Verifone's P2PE-Certified Payment As A Service

(RTTNews) - Verifone (PAY) announced Tuesday that Heron Foods, a family-owned ambient, frozen and chilled food retailer in northern England, will deploy Payment as a Service from Verifone.

The platform is certified by the PCI Security Standards Council or SSC as an approved Point-to-Point Encryption or P2PE solution and will enable Heron Foods to bolster payment security, reduce payment authentication times and accept NFC-based payments at all of its 248 stores.

The company noted that P2PE is crucial for merchants in present retail landscape, as it encrypts cardholder data collected at the point of sale or POS and keeps it encrypted until it is safely inside Verifone's PCI compliant decryption environment.

Verifone's P2PE validated Payment as a Service solution will protect cardholder data across Heron Foods' payment terminals, networks and systems.

Using Payment as a Service from Verifone, Heron Foods will be able to provide faster authorization and shorter queue times for customers.

The VX 820 - Verifone's PIN Transaction Security (PTS) 3.0 compliant and fully contactless/NFC-enabled payment terminal - will enable Heron Foods to accept a variety of payment methods - including Apple Pay - and future-proof its payment infrastructure as the company grows.

Heron Foods will also be able to access Verifone's Value Added Services to drive sales and improve customer loyalty.