The festival™ certified integrated payment solution, incorporating Point of Pay technology, is designed for unattended and embedded applications. Festival provides a real time, end to end, internet based transaction management solution across a dedicated payment network from point-of-payment to vendor account.
Festival and Paymark™
The API’s for the ‘Festival’ software along with the Point of Pay EFTPOS solution and a semi-unattended solution have attained ‘General Release’ status on the Paymark EFTPOS network.
General Release is granted when the Paymark Certification process is completed and following a satisfactory pilot. As part of the Paymark Certification process a formal certification test is perform on all parts of the solution this includes the Point of Pay EFTPOS device, the Festival middleware application and the semiunattended device and is performed by Paymark personnel to verify the complete solution is working accurately and correctly against the Paymark EFTPOS system. On top of the rigorously certification process on these components the solution has been through a production pilot in which the solution is deployed in a live merchant site for production used.
Paymark is New Zealand’s leading electronic payments provider which was established in 1989 and is owned by four major banks. Its network processes more than 75% of all electronic transactions in this country.
