Scottsdale: Hypercom Terminals Certified

June 30, 2000
Merchants’ Choice Markets Hypercom Optimum to 41,000+ Retailers

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC) announced today that Merchants’ Choice Card Services (MCCS), a top ranked merchant service provider also known as Deltacard Services, has Class A certified and will market Hypercom’s high security Optimum T4200 countertop and M4230 mobile payment terminals to its more than 41,000 customers in the United States.

“Hypercom is a superb professional organization with sensible, secure and benchmark-setting products that deliver new levels of security, features and capabilities to the retail countertop,” said Larry Jones, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Merchants’ Choice Card Services.

“Merchants’ Choice Card Services’ selection, Class A certification and roll out of the Optimum payment and digital transaction terminals means that more merchants can quickly and safely conduct business. This leading merchant service provider’s stamp of approval further validates this best-of-breed product family’s advanced security, features and lowest cost of total ownership,” said Heidi Goff, President and Managing Director, The Americas, Hypercom Corporation.

Hypercom’s high security Optimum T4200 and M4200 product family for North America consists of six powerful 32-bit multi-application devices that share the same platform, user interface, and software toolkit to maximize efficiency, application portability, and offer customers a broad range of options to serve any market need.

For further information on Hypercom’s Optimum products, please visit http://www.hypercom.com/products/.

About Merchants’ Choice Card Services (www.mccs-corp.com)

MCCS is one of the nation’s top-ranked Merchant Service Providers, serving over 41,000 clients, processing more than $3.4 billion in annual credit card volume. Established in the late 1980s MCCS has grown with the strength of Woodforest National Bank, a $3.2 billion Houston-based financial institution, as its foundation. With the stability and financial strength of Woodforest, MCCS has built the infrastructure necessary to support growth with state-of-the-art technology.

About Hypercom (www.hypercom.com)

Global payment technology leader Hypercom Corporation delivers a full suite of high security, end-to-end electronic payment products and services. The Company's solutions address the high security electronic transaction needs of banks and other financial institutions, processors, large scale retailers, smaller merchants, quick service restaurants, and users in the transportation, petroleum, healthcare, prepaid, unattended and many other markets. Hypercom solutions enable businesses in more than 100 countries to securely expand their revenues and profits. Hypercom is a founding member of the Secure POS Vendor Alliance (SPVA) and is the second largest provider of electronic payment solutions and services in Western Europe and third largest provider globally.


Contacts

Hypercom Corporation
Pete Schuddekopf, 480-642-5383
pschuddekopf@hypercom.com
or
Merchants’ Choice Card Services
Andrea Balfour, 281-583-4420
abalfour@deltacard.com