EMV is a security standard jointly created by Europay, Mastercard, Visa (i.e., “EMV”) that reduces the chance of in-person credit/debit card fraud and increases the security of consumer financial data.

The new fines imposed by payment providers made continuing to accept non-EMV contactless payments infeasible for our customers. We were left with two options, either sunset the affected devices, or remove contactless payment acceptance on non-EMV devices. We believe removing contactless payments was the better of the two options to support our customers in the light of these new requirements.

This means that debit and credit card “Tap” payments will no longer be processed on non-EMV Seed and ePort readers. Mobile Wallets will also no longer be accepted. Magswipe payments will continue as normal.

You can easily tell if you have a non-EMV compliant Greenlite Seed cashless device if the device on the front of your machine is dark grey or there is an orange seed box inside your machine on the righthand side your machine. If you DO NOT have an orange box inside your machine, your cashless device is already EMV compliant. Watch the quick video below to quickly see how to tell if your current Greenlite device is NOT EMV compliant.