Monthly Archive for November, 2009

Viaduct in support of Austism Intervention

Another fantastic cause we are delighted to be in support of!

If you would like to help them out in any way please visit their website:
http://www.autisminterventiontrust.org.nz/funding.html

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Tomizone Hotspot Solutions now available through Viaduct!

Do you have Internet into your place? Why not share your connection securely
as a Wireless Hotspot and earn a passive revenue?

To create a Tomizone Hotspot, all you need is a broadband connection and a
compatible Wi-Fi router. Plug your broadband modem into the Tomizone router and starting using your WiFi EFTPOS on the private WiFi network and start earning revenue from your public Tomizone WiFi network.

For every dollar spent at your place, Tomizone split the money 50-50! There are no
hidden costs or ongoing charges from Tomizone. Tomizone take care of billing, user management, security and authentication making Tomizone a true plug-and-play Wi-Fi solution.

It’s easy and safe and the more people log-on to Wi-Fi at your place, the more money you make!

Tomizone WiFi Routers can be purchased directly from Viaduct. Contact us on 0800 484 238. Or visit the Tomizone website for further info www.Tomizone.com

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Introducing Visa Debit

Visa Debit lets people spend their own money over the internet, by telephone, via mail order and overseas, everywhere Visa is accepted.

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Credit card sales still weak

Retailers Association chief executive John Albertson said there had been a shift from spending on credit cards to eftpos cards in the past year as people started to live within their budgets.

Total credit card billings rose a seasonally adjusted 0.1 percent in October to $5.18 billion but were still down 0.6 percent on the same month last year.

Read more here

Viaduct becomes NZRA preferred supplier

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Dominion Post, Wednesday 18th November 2009

Great article for the team at Viaduct in the Dom Post today.  We have been working very hard on our eftpos offer and this recognition is great.  We have had a couple of exciting months in the office and so to win this contract is great.

We have been very busy with the upgrade of verifone terminals in the marketplace and there will be more on this shortly.  If you would like to know more about our Retailers offer then contact us on 0800 484 238 or visit our site or theirs.

PRESS RELEASE: Viaduct become a NZ Retail Association Preferred Supplier

MEDIA RELEASE

For immediate release

17th November 2009


More Choice for New Zealand Retailers

The New Zealand Retailers Association is pleased to announce the addition of Wellington based company Viaduct as a National Business partner for the Association.

New Zealand Retailers Association Chief Executive John Albertson says that Viaduct will take the place of ProvencoCadmus as the alternative payments provider for members.

A key factor in this decision is to allow maximum choice for Association members in terms of their terminal selection.

“With Hypercom’s recent return to the New Zealand market, it highlighted the need to partner with a provider that can deliver all the terminal options to our members. With Hypercom also being the most popular terminal amongst or members, we had to ensure that the needs of our members are being met.”

There are also a range of additional enhancements that Viaduct can provide, such as ‘outage free’ eftpos which allows retailers to continue transacting even if the network or the phone lines go down, WiFi eftpos and eftpos without contracts.

Mr Albertson says there are many changes occurring in the marketplace and retailers need to ensure that their provider allows them to keep up with these changes.

“With the ongoing upgrades in the eftpos market we encourage our members to lease their eftpos equipment and Viaduct provides the choices necessary for this. They do not use a third party finance company so retailers deal directly with them. Viaduct also has nationwide coverage providing the service and support needed to keep retailers in business.”

Mark Unwin Director of Viaduct says the company is looking forward to working with the New Zealand Retailers Association and their membership.

“We are a customer-focussed company - even our best price guarantee has a retail focus. The exciting changes in technology mean that eftpos is no longer confined by phone lines or power cables, and neither is the New Zealand retailer,” says Mr Unwin.

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HANZ Awards 2009

Viaduct was lucky enough to attend the black tie Lion Nathan Awards for Excellence Dinner, on Thursday 1 October at Bayview Wairakei Resort Taupo.

As a joint sponsor of the award for ‘Best Bar’, Viaduct Director Marty Pomeroy (pictured left) presented the award to the winners: Sale St from Freemans Bay, Auckland.

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The machines behind the eftpos scam

The skimming scam that stole almost $5 million from Western Australians in the last 2 months was due to old eftpos machines!

Thousands of WA McDonald’s customers have had money stolen from their bank accounts since September after their debit and credit cards were skimmed after EFTPOS transactions at stores around Perth.

The device is the Ingenico PX328 pinpad, a decade-old terminal type, which is not tamper proof.

Don’t let this happen to you! Keep in touch with Viaduct so you always have the most up-to-date terminal and software available. Call us on 0800 484 238.

Read more about the scam here

Visa announces plan to phase out signatures for credit-card authentication

Signing for your credit-card payment at a restaurant or in a shop is to be phased out. The changes were announced by Visa earlier this week in the latest installment of its plans to migrate all Australian card holders and merchants to chip technology. Retailers will need to upgrade their EFTPOS terminals accordingly.

This highlights the benefits to merchants of leasing their eftpos terminal and also keeping in touch with Viaduct by reading our blog and newsletters.

Read more here

If you have any questions, please call us on 0800 484 238.

Vodafone GPRS Issues

Vodafone has advised this morning that they have an ongoing nationwide issue which is affecting connectivity of GPRS merchants.

This issue has now been resolved. However if you are experiencing any issues processing transactions, or you have any questions, please contact Viaduct on 0800 484 238.