Merchant Link announces new credit card security product

Merchant Link plans to introduce later this year its TranactionVault hosted credit card security product and service to users of the latest version of the MICROS OPERA Property Management System (PMS). TransactionVault for OPERA PMS, available during the fourth quarter of 2009 to hotels that install or upgrade to version 5.0.2.0 of MICROS OPERA, will protect hotels from credit card breaches, improve the security of their guest data, and help them more cost-effectively achieve and maintain Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) compliance.

The system replaces guest credit card numbers with unique "TransactionVault Keys" which can be used for all transactions and customer analytics, removes the actual credit card information, and safeguards it at one of Merchant Link's secure data centers. 

The innovative TransactionVault for OPERA PMS "card to key" relationship means that hotels within the same corporate or chain structure will receive from Merchant Link the same "key" for each guest's credit card, regardless of when, where, or how often the card is used.