Although they are responsible for any credit card fraud occurring at their place of business, merchants have been very slow to adopt the new technology.
PC Software Glitch
There is a serious software glitch, according to Tim Lynch from Psychsoftpc. The software for taking credit cards through a PC is not ready or certified yet, he said, so small businesses that have invested money in systems based on this software are now being told to switch back to a separate terminal for charges and enter the data by hand into the PC. "The software is PC Charge, which is installed in 1000s of machines throughout the U.S.," Lynch explained. "It, along with a USB card magnetic strip reader, turns any PC into a POS station. The company now says they are not going to update this software and it is no longer compliant. They are supposedly working on new software but it is not certified and may never be even finished."