Yesterday, I’ve joined a two days workshop in lembang. The workshop explain about TIP process, start from requirement, check list, until compliance test. The Key Person is Peter Farren, a man from MasterCard. For two day he gave us a lot information about TIP for EMV Certification.
What is TIP here means for?? Yes, TIP stand for Terminal Integration Process. This process needed by the financial institution that accomodate card payment system like credit card or debit card using EMV standard. The Terminal Integration Process is a key testing process designed to test the terminal, intermediate connections, and the interface with the acquirer host system, in conditions that are as close as possible to its final environmental use.
The objectives of the Terminal Integration Process are to:
- Ensure that your terminal meets MasterCard brand requirements (M/Chip Requirements)
- Ensure that your terminal and in particular its EMVCo approved kernel and/or PayPass application(s), meets your business needs.
- Test your terminal’s capabilities in terms of interoperability, and detect
issues at an early stage, thus saving you both time and money
You need to do the TIP when any of the following happens:
- A new terminal is selected for deployment
- If an approved version of the terminal application is modified, please inform the TIP Team. The TIP Team will advise on whether a TIP or some regression tests must be performed based on the reported modifications
Before we doing this process, we should send our requirement to the MasterCard in order to get specific test case. Then, received test case should passed by us as part for EMV terminal and server certification. After our terminal and server certified, thats the time to implements this system to the real world.