The Pinnacle Corporation and Worldpay team to enhance the security of Pinnacle’s Palm POS solution through chip card certification for petroleum merchants.

Arlington, Texas, June 8, 2017– The Pinnacle Corporation (Pinnacle), a leader in mobile, loyalty and point-of-sale integration solutions for retail convenience stores, and Worldpay, a leading provider of electronic payment solutions, today announced they have jointly completed and certified the integration between the Pinnacle Palm POS™ and Worldpay payment processing host; the combined solution is now compliant with EMV®, the global standard for credit payment cards using chip card technology.

“The completion of this certification effort with Worldpay means that the fully integrated Palm POS solution will give retailers one of the highest levels of protection available against card-present data fraud by accepting chip cards,” said Melissa Fox Hadley, Director of Product Management, The Pinnacle Corporation. “We are thrilled to work with Worldpay to offer our POS clients a safer, more secure payment method, while also reducing those retailers’ fraud liability exposure.”

The certification of Pinnacle’s Palm POS with Worldpay helps to greatly reduce the liability faced by petroleum retailers when accepting chip cards for indoor transactions. Now equipped with a high level of protection against card-present chip card fraud, Pinnacle merchant partners can operate without the lingering worry of being left vulnerable to the increased fraud risk resulting from the liability shift surrounding card-present chip card transactions.

The long-standing, collaborative history between Pinnacle and Worldpay laid the foundation for the payment processor to team with Pinnacle in certifying Palm POS for chip card acceptance. Worldpay’s customer-centric focus aligns strategically with Pinnacle’s desire to address client needs related to chip card certification quickly and thoroughly.

“Pinnacle is dedicated to serving convenience store and petroleum merchants, which are markets that remain a top focus for Worldpay,” said Holly Fengler, VP Corporate Business Unit Client Relations, Worldpay US. “Through this collaboration we will continue to grow and continue to deliver exceptional value in the marketplace.

Merchants can leverage the Pinnacle Palm POS with existing hardware and various back office systems to help keep pace with ever-evolving regulatory mandates and enhancements, such as the liability shift surrounding chip card transactions. The solution is flexible enough to deliver a tailored payment experience across various POS environments, yet strong enough to ensure that these environments are better safeguarded against increasing fraud threats while adhering to a complex nature of regulatory compliance.

Pinnacle’s Palm POS with Worldpay is currently in production with chip card-approved Ingenico PIN pads.

To learn more about Palm POS and how it is delivering more secure and streamlined payments to the convenience store market, visit http://ec2-3-137-192-69.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/solutions/pos-solutions/palm-pos/.

About Pinnacle Corporation:

The Pinnacle Corporation (Pinnacle) provides leading-edge point of sale, loyalty, and both corporate and consumer facing mobile technology to the rapidly evolving convenience store industries.

Pinnacle delivers products that drive traffic and increase profits, while helping retailers retain consumer loyalty and enhancing labor efficiency. Nationwide, Pinnacle’s products and services are used daily in convenience outlets to improve their store operations and extend the brand of retailers through the ever-increasing mobile landscape.

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About Worldpay:

Worldpay is a leading payments company with global reach. We provide an extensive range of technology-led payment products and services to around 400,000 customers, enabling their businesses to grow and prosper.

We manage the increasing complexity of the payments landscape for our customers, allowing them to accept the widest range of payment types around the world. Using our network and technology, we are able to process payments from geographies covering 99% of global GDP, across 146 countries and 126 currencies. We help our customers to accept more than 300 different payment types.

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Arlington, Texas – The Pinnacle Corporation (www.pinncorp.com), the leader in mobile, loyalty and point-of-sale integration solutions for retail convenience stores, announced today the completion of its Pinnacle Loyalty suite integration with non-Pinnacle POS solutions using  the Conexxus Loyalty standard.

Pinnacle has a long history in the convenience store space with integrated Loyalty rewards and their Palm Point-of-Sale system. As Loyalty has grown more and more successful and vital for customer engagement, Pinnacle expanded its offerings into mobile applications- for ways to extend offers and promotions to consumers via mobile -driving traffic, increasing spend, and communicating with them in the most effective way possible. By further enhancing the Pinnacle Loyalty suite to include non-Palm POS, clients can integrate their rewards programs in a more diverse hardware and software environment.

“While Pinnacle offers a completely integrated POS, Loyalty Rewards, and Mobile App solution suite, we understand retailers are looking for Loyalty and Mobile solutions that will integrate with their existing POS platforms, to optimize their hardware and software investments,” said Melissa Fox Hadley, Director of Product Management at Pinnacle.

“Pinnacle has a long history of partnership and collaboration with Conexxus and we are proud to be able to support the Conexxus loyalty standards to offer a loyalty suite, fully integrated with Pinnacle POS, Affiniti Mobile and now other Point-of-Sale systems- ensuring that retailers have the tools in hand to increase customer loyalty and drive store profits.”

Conexxus is a non-profit, member-driven technology organization dedicated to the development and implementation of standards, technologies innovation and advocacy for the convenience store and petroleum market. Conexxus membership collaborates on key present and future industry challenges and innovations. Their work efforts improve profitability by reducing the cost of IT ownership and improving the competitiveness of their members. Pinnacle will participate next week, April 23-27th, at the 2017 Conexxus Annual Conference in Annapolis, Maryland. Learn more at www.conexxus.org/2017AnnualConference.

“Loyalty programs are a key retailer tool in building a solid consumer brand following.  Conexxus membership created its loyalty standards to help convenience retail overcome the diversity of platforms and adopt best-of-breed loyalty solutions.  Pinnacle’s support of those standards shows a clear investment in the success of its customers, through adopting this standard and its continued support of Conexxus’ mission,” said Gray Taylor, Executive Director, Conexxus.

Pinnacle clients and industry professionals will learn more about Pinnacle’s collaboration and partnership with Conexxus at Summit 2017, the Pinnacle user conference, in Arlington, Texas. Gray Taylor will address the Conexxus Loyalty Standards and the most current technology trends and issues facing convenience store retailers. To learn more, visit www.pinncorp.com/summit2017.

Arlington, Texas – The Pinnacle Corporation (www.pinncorp.com), the leader in mobile, loyalty and point-of-sale integration solutions for retail convenience stores, and Lynch Oil (www.lynchoilinc.com ) announced today the launch of the new Mr. Gas consumer facing mobile app for customers located in the Burley, Idaho area.

Several years ago, Lynch Oil deployed Pinnacle’s fully integrated Palm POS and Loyalty Rewards suite of products. As their loyalty program grew more and more successful, Lynch looked for ways to extend offers and promotions to their consumers via mobile -driving traffic, increasing spend, and communicating with them in the most effective way possible. With their Mr. Gas mobile app, built on the Pinnacle Affiniti mobile platform, Lynch Oil is able to influence their consumers’ behavior and drive store traffic in ways they had not been able before.

“Today’s consumers keep their mobile phones closer to their hand than the wallet that holds their cards.  Offering a mobile app to our customers allows us to offer convenience before they even walk in the store,” says Nick Lynch, President of Triple S Oil/Lynch Oil. “Consumers will be able to sign up for loyalty rewards directly through the app. They’ll also get promo offers, updates on pricing, and they’ll be able to check their loyalty points balance including their status on their club punches.  We are looking forward to the new opportunities that our Mr. Gas mobile app offers our business and our customers.”

The Lynch Oil Mr. Gas mobile app provides consumers with a map of stores and gas prices, allowing them to select their favorites to display on the home screen. Consumers can pay for merchandise and fuel from the app as well, making it fast and easy to complete purchases and be on their way. The Mr. Gas app also stores electronic receipts and receives notifications of new offers, displaying those offers and other deals as well as club card program status and points balances.

“The roll-out by Lynch Oil of their Mr. Gas mobile application is an exciting milestone for us and we could not be more pleased to have worked with the Lynch team. Pinnacle is able to offer a suite of loyalty solutions, fully integrated with Pinnacle POS and Affiniti Mobile, to achieve the ultimate consumer experience- ensuring that retailers have the tools in hand to increase customer loyalty and drive store profits,” said Melissa Fox Hadley, Director of Product Management at Pinnacle.

About Pinnacle Corporation:

 The Pinnacle Corporation (Pinnacle) provides leading-edge automation technology to the rapidly evolving convenience store and petroleum industries. Pinnacle delivers products that automate the broad spectrum of convenience store operations and supply chain management of fuel operations.

Nationwide, Pinnacle’s products and services are used daily in thousands of convenience outlets to automate and improve their store operations, and by fuel marketers to increase their efficiency in the complex management of fuel delivery.