BASE24-pos ®

Today’s marketplace is driven by customer expectations of rapid, trouble-free

electronic purchasing services. Businesses that offer such services gain a distinct
advantage. Whether the company is an issuer, acquirer, processor or retailer, point-of-sale
(POS) environments are expanding and changing so quickly that programming resources
often are spent maintaining regulatory requirements rather than providing new services
to customers. To alleviate this, companies need scalable solutions that maximize their
technological investments.

The BASE24-pos® Solution Implement a Modular Solution

BASE24-pos provides organizations with a BASE24’s modular architecture and the

fast, powerful authorization system that
can improve margins by reducing losses and
operational costs while allowing businesses to
gain new opportunities. BASE24-pos offers
data integrity for these mission-critical
applications and allows businesses to leverage
their infrastructure investments and build a
foundation for future development. ACI
Worldwide continually enhances
BASE24-pos to provide new functionality
and maintain regulatory compliance.
Reduce Risk and Costs
The proven high availability and high
throughput of BASE24® minimizes
the risk of outage and reduces
operational overhead and cost per
transaction. The solution’s scalability protects
initial product investments as transaction
volumes grow and systems expand. Extensive
parameterization and a comprehensive feature
set enable issuers, acquirers, processors and
retailers to bring to market a wide array of
payment products and services.
wide selection of compatible, off-the-shelf
components available allow easy system
expansion, reducing development costs
and time-to-market. ACI’s dedication to
continuous software updates ensures that
BASE24 solutions comply with regulatory
and card association mandates.
The ACI Advantage
BASE24 products help financial institutions,
retailers and processors deliver superior
service while meeting the competitive
challenges of today and tomorrow. From
the retail delivery device to the back office,
ACI Worldwide is a single-vendor source
for integrated payments processing and
complementary software solutions.
The Market Leader in EFT
ACI offers a fully automated electronic funds
transfer (EFT) payment service capable of
capturing, authorizing and processing various
credit, direct debit and chip-enabled cards,
whether a transaction originates at the point
of sale or over the Internet.
System Architecture Supports credit, direct debit, and chip card

at a glance
BASE24-pos operates on the full range authorization using combinations of negative
of scalable HP NonStop™ servers. The (hot card) checks, velocity (usage) checks,
combination of fault-tolerant hardware and positive identification and authentication
software provides 24x7 fail-safe operations checks, account balance checks, and credit

features
and transaction integrity; expandability through history (parametric authorization)
modular growth as transaction volumes grow; Supports flexible stand-in authorization
the ability to quickly add new functionality in with store-and-forward to multiple host
response to business requirements; and superior authorization systems
performance and response time to ensure Provides flexible switching and routing
customer convenience and satisfaction. to all major networks, card associations
and processors
Experience, Expertise Drives merchant POS devices and store
Every second of every day, more than 800 controllers and features an extensive
customers around the world rely on ACI transaction set, including check conversion,
solutions to process payments, manage risk, EBT, stored value/gift card and terminal
automate back-office systems and provide management functions
application infrastructure services. More Supports transaction acquiring systems and
customers use ACI software to manage higher Internet/Web-based e-commerce servers
payment volumes, of greater diversity, across Provides flexible settlement and reporting
more platforms and geographies than any options for both terminal and host capture
other provider in our field. Since 1975, ACI Integrates with other ACI products to
has provided software solutions to the world’s provide ATM processing, check and refunds
innovators. We welcome the opportunity to do authorization, fraud detection, and stored
the same for you. value/gift cards
Supports high-volume, high availability
All product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their processing through a scalable 24x7
respective companies. fault-tolerant architecture built on HP
NonStop™ systems
Supports EMV chip card schemes
Supports multiple currencies and languages

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