{"id":2591,"date":"2015-08-18T14:26:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T18:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2015-08-18T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T19:22:33","slug":"things-you-should-know-about-near-field-communication-nfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/things-you-should-know-about-near-field-communication-nfc\/","title":{"rendered":"Things you should know about Near-Field Communication (NFC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\">\n<p><strong>NFC stands for near-field communication<\/strong>, it allows two devices to share data.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve likely used it already, even if you haven\u2019t realized it. It\u2019s embedded in computer cards, print ads, smart cards and it is featured in many Android phones, Windows phones and the new iPhone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NFC works in two ways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first is two-way communication, where two devices can read and write each other \u2013 like transferring contacts or photos from one device to another. The second is one-way communication where a device can read and write to an NFC chip \u2013 similar to using an NFC enabled card to pay for something using an NFC terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Sure there are other technologies, like Bluetooth, that can do things similar to NFC, but NFC uses less power and is better for your smartphone\u2019s battery life. NFC is also less complicated to use than Bluetooth and doesn\u2019t need to be paired with anything.<\/p>\n<p>NFC is extremely secure. Intercepting payment information from an NFC device is very difficult because of how the process works. To use NFC for payments, the payment application is first launched on a phone that is then tapped on a terminal. The customer then enters a code or scans a fingerprint to approve the transaction. A secure element (SE) then authorizes the payment and sends the information to the NFC modem. The payment is then processed like a credit card swipe.<\/p>\n<p>NFC is likely to continue to grow in popularity in the mobile payments space, to learn more about NFC payments and how you can prepare your business with National Transaction Corporation, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\">www.nationaltransaction.com<\/a> or give us a call at 1-888-996-2273<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFC stands for near-field communication, it allows two devices to share data. You\u2019ve likely used it already, even if you<\/p>\n<div id=\"more-button\"><a class=\"btn btn-more excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/things-you-should-know-about-near-field-communication-nfc\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,12],"tags":[21,2861,2860,26,2797,49,1904,130],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-practices-for-merchants","category-near-field-communication","tag-credit-card-2","tag-mobile-payments","tag-near-field-communication","tag-nfc","tag-nfc-payments","tag-payments","tag-swipe","tag-terminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}