Planet Payment, Banorte launch integrated MICROS solution with Pay in Your Currency

With Pay in Your Currency, eligible international customers can pay in their home currency at the point-of-sale. Customers are presented with a receipt or shown a point-of-sale terminal which displays the transaction amounts in Mexican Pesos and their home currency (as well as the exchange rate and other service details). Customers then select the currency they wish to pay in on the receipt or terminal.

Banortes launch of the MICROS Payment Gateway also enables integrated payment support for the MICROS suite of enterprise hospitality products. The MICROS Payment Gateway, hosted and operated within Planet Payments data center and integrated to its global processing platform, supports Pay in Your Currency, acceptance of EMV chip and magnetic stripe cards and on-line reporting for acquiring banks and their merchants.

Planet Payment enables processors, acquiring banks and their merchants in more than 20 countries to accept, process and reconcile credit card transactions in multiple currencies, allowing cardholders to view prices and settle transactions in their native currency. Planet Payment also has offices in Atlanta, Beijing, Bermuda, Delaware, Dubai, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore.