Visa wants to speed up card processing for a less rage-inducing checkout experience

Apr19

by Sindy Cator on April 19, 2016 at 5:36 pm

Since the October 1 deadline guideline last year, EMV — or “chipped” — cards have driven all of us a little nuts. The processing was often slow-going, many retailers were unprepared and the entire ordeal was just a giant exercise in new technology really getting in the way of a smooth checkout process. Today, Visa updated its software to improve the processing speed of chip-enabled cards. QuickChip for EMV is designed to speed up checkout times by enabling faster processing of chipped cards — something desperately needed at many retailers. Now, instead of requiring your card remain in the terminal for the duration of…