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Federal Minimum Wage Increases July 24th, 2009

Aloha POS v6.4 and v6.5 Receive PA DSS Validation

Aloha Version Expiration Dates
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 Federal Minimum Wage Increases July 24th, 2009

The Federal Government is increasing the minimum wage on July 24th, 2009. This means for any states in which the minimum wage is below the new Federal rate of $7.25, operators must meet the Federal amount.

For details of increases in your state and the Federal increase, click here.

Note: It is important that you increase the minimum wage in Aloha or your Overtime won’t be calculated accurately.

For a description of how to make the change in Aloha, click here. For a description of how to make the change in MenuLink, click here.



Aloha POS v6.4 and v6.5 Receive PA DSS Validation

Payment application software vendors must adhere to the Payment Application Data Security Standards (PA DSS) to ensure they are developing products that are secure and protect cardholder data. Independent security consultants have recently audited Aloha v6.4 and v6.5 and Radiant Systems is pleased to announce these versions have been validated as conforming to the PA DSS requirements.
 

Aloha POS v6.4

Received Report on Validation in February, 2009

Validated against PA DSS v1.1

Aloha POS v6.5

Received Report on Validation in June, 2009

Validated against PA DSS v1.2

We expect these versions to appear on the list of validated payment applications published by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCS SSC) in late June or early July.

Aloha Version Expiration Dates

As a reminder, previously validated versions of Aloha expire on the following dates:
 

POS version number

Validated against
PABP/PA DSS version

Deployment notes

Current validation expires on:

Aloha v5.3.15

Pre-PABP v1.3

Not recommended for new  deployments

December 2, 2009

Aloha v6.1

PABP v1.3

Acceptable for new deployments

June 2, 2010

Aloha v6.2

PABP v1.4

Acceptable for new deployments

December 2, 2010

We strongly encourage you to adopt the most recent market-ready Aloha releases as they become available.

The following Website lists validated payment applications and their expiration dates, as published by the PCI Security Standards Council:



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