The Logic Group is a leading supplier of card processing and loyalty solutions to the hospitality sector. The company’s core product suite has been designed to operate with any form of payment or loyalty card and in any environment. The Logic Group’s solutions are used by 60% of the UK’s top 100 retailers to process their payment and loyalty card transactions, as do many of the largest call centres and e-commerce websites. The company’s solutions can accept all major types of payment card including, credit, debit, store, charge and purchasing as well as e-gift and loyalty cards.
The Logic Group has been at the forefront of the UK's migration to Chip & PIN for the retail and hospitality sectors, offering a comprehensive package of solutions to facilitate easy EMV migration. Smart-Switch is a functionally rich card processing utility for merchants with seventy-five points of sale and over, which offers high performance, flexible software integration and is designed to help merchants add support for new value-added applications and cards whilst minimising disruption to legacy systems. Smart-Switch is a fully EMV Level 2 accredited solution for integrated EpoS environments and offers a robust solution for fast processing of Chip & PIN transactions.
Smart-Switch's capabilities have been extended to add support for additional store channels, such as wireless terminal support. The hospitality sector is expected to be the initial major user of this solution, which takes into account such factors as table number allocation, waiter/cashier sign on, gratuities and split payments. In addition, The Logic Group has enhanced Smart-Switch to support the specific requirements of kiosks and unattended payment terminals.
The company is also a leading supplier of loyalty solutions to the hospitality sector. Group clients have seen sales rise by 10% and 25% thanks to the introduction of these solutions, with average transaction values rising by 20%. Captured data is transferred from point-of-sale and e-commerce environments to a central customer database, which can be located centrally at a retailer's headquarters or run as a managed service at the Logic Group’s secure data centres.