9th Dec 2025
Payment gateway 2 Factor Authentication
The payment gateway is now changing to enforce 2 factor authentication for customer login.
This is part of a general requirement for all electronic payments within the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom to have Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is a new requirement of the second Payment ...
5th Dec 2025
Control Panel Update and New Company Logo
Today (Friday 5th December) we have updated our management control panel.
You may have noticed we have also started updating our company logo in various places.

18th Nov 2025
Cloudflare Outage
Cloudflare had some kind of service issues today which started just before noon 18th Nov 2025 (ended after 2:30pm).
It affected our own control panels and portals as well as the services of any customers with domains on Cloudflare.
See the Cloudflare status page here - https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Even the BBC reported the issue - ...
21st Oct 2025
MMS Update
New Payment Type, RT Agreement Handling, and REST API Changes (Effective 21st October 2025)
On 21st October 2025, we will be releasing important updates to the Cardstream Merchant Management System (MMS) to enhance the handling of Recurring Transactions (RTs) with card scheme requirements. These changes will provide clearer options for ...
