ASTREX

ASTREX is the payment industry’s most powerful real-time payments simulator for any Issuer, Acquirer, or Third-Party Processor that wants to test their payment infrastructure host systems. Definition ASTREX is the payment industry’s most powerful real-time payments simulator for any Issuer, Acquirer, or Third-Party Processor that wants to test their payment infrastructure host systems. Change is the only constant in the cards and payments industry. Your payment system must keep up with customer expectations while staying compliant with the latest standards. You need to get more new products to market faster than ever before. As an Acquirer or Third Party Processor you want to test an acquirer network’s capability to generate correct messaging properly. As an Issuer you want to test an issuer host system’s ability to process authorization messages. A next generation test and validation environment is key to getting ahead of the competition. ASTREX supports you in achieving your test objectives for both acquiring and issuing host systems. With ASTREX you can independently emulate every payment network scenario and transaction type in an end-to-end simulated environment. This single test environment can be made available to every participant in your product development lifecycle. ASTREX improves card and payments product quality and eliminates costs. It reduces delivery risk while also increasing your speed to market. ASTREX is the platform for emulating the payments chain. Wherever you are in the payments chain, ASTREX provides all the functions needed to replicate the end-to-end environment. Issuing and Acquiring Host Migration Ease the effort in migrating your card management, authorizations, acquiring and terminal management platforms Switch Migration Assure migration from evaluation to go-live EMV Migration Manage the complexities of migrating to EMV contact and contactless System Evaluation and Benchmarking Baseline your payments infrastructure and evaluate new systems using an accurate test environment Benefits Get new products to your customers faster Improve your competitiveness and reduce customer churn Dramatically reduce the cost of your product development and support Replicate your production payments environment Make every system change simpler Gain an accessible enterprise-wide environment ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Ancillary Services To ensure that you can effectively use the tool and gain the maximum benefits, UL offers for tools a Service Contract that gives you access to our Technical Support services. Our experienced technical team is available to provide support, advice and guidance. The following services are covered New releases Helpdesk support Bug fixes Instant hardware replacement You can access these services through the service portal at www.ul-ts.com.