POS Software Now Helps Remove Transaction Data from Stores, Lowers PCI Compliance Costs for Independents

PLANO, Texas – Nov. 19, 2007 – PCI compliance is a costly endeavor for most independent grocers, but new PCI-Isolated point-of-sale (POS) software from StoreNext Retail Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of Retalix Ltd. (NASDAQ: RTLX), is making that process much easier and far less expensive for users of ISS45 and ScanMaster POS systems.

The updated ISS45 and ScanMaster versions are currently available and now provide a redesigned electronic payments interface that keeps all bank card data separate from the POS system while maintaining complete functional integration. When combined with StoreNext’s Connected Payments™ system, grocers can now operate with no card data in their stores, thus exempting them from almost all PCI mandates and costs while eliminating the risk of card data breaches.

"The increasing pressure from card networks, processors and financial institutions has made PCI compliance a priority for independents and regional chains,” said Tony van Seventer, StoreNext’s vice president of marketing and products. “But the difficulty and cost to achieve compliance and the annual expense of maintaining it is proving beyond the reach of many grocers. The only practical answer is to remove all card data from the store, and that’s precisely what combining our new PCI-Isolated ISS45 and ScanMaster versions with Connected Payments has accomplished.”

The PCI-Isolated POS interfaces were designed in collaboration with MTXEPS, Inc., and operate with the WinEPS™ electronic payments system and Connected Payments. The interfaces enable full integration with point-of-sale tendering operations, but the POS system never communicates, handles, manages, or stores any actual card data.

“Retailers are discovering that the most expensive and difficult PCI compliance problems are the dozens and dozens of management practices that even the smallest stores must implement when there is card data in the store,” said van Seventer. “From ‘clean rooms’ to immediate platform upgrades to 24-hour video surveillance and review, there’s just no practical way for independents to carry out the ongoing processes specified in the PCI Data Security Standards. If our customers ever needed a regulatory ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ card, it’s now, and StoreNext has stepped up with an elegant solution.”

ISS45 and ScanMaster are StoreNext’s POS systems that serve the technology requirements of more than 10,000 independent grocers and regional chain stores across North America. Designed specifically for independents, the software platforms use a powerful system-based architecture and customizable range of capabilities to meet the needs of today's service-oriented, cost-conscious independent grocer.

StoreNext’s Connected Payments solution offers independent grocers a new payments system model that delivers an array of cost-saving capabilities and eliminates most of the up-front technology investment, including all WinEPS payments software and ISS45 or ScanMaster interface and option licenses.The hosted application is designed to cut grocers’ electronic payment expenses by up to 25 percent – or more – with credit-to-debit conversion, signature capture, ECC/ECA, Blackhawk™ gift card and other gift card and payment systems support. Connected Payments is provided in partnership with payments software leader MTXEPS, Inc. together with several of the grocery industry’s leading payment processors.