N_K_D Pizza and CyberSource Pioneer Online Pizza Purchase in Dubai

  • N_K_D Pizza uses CyberSource’s eCommerce payment and Tokenization service to create new online order model—streamlines purchase and encourages repeat business

  • Sensitive payment data never touches N_K_D Pizza systems—builds consumer confidence, helps protect N_K_D brand and lower cost of PCI compliance

Dubai, 13th Jan, 2013 —

CyberSource, a Visa company (NYSE: V), and N_K_D Pizza, an all natural carry out and delivery pizza franchise originally founded in New Orleans, today announced that N_K_D Pizza has selected CyberSource to provide secure online payments in the GCC.

N_K_D Pizza is capitalising on the growing eCommerce opportunity by enabling consumers in Dubai to purchase pizza online. Registered users of N_K_D Pizza can also benefit from an express checkout facility for repeat purchases by saving a preferred delivery address and payment method.

“N_K_D Pizza is keen to offer the benefits of eCommerce to its customer base,” said Ian Ohan, CEO and Owner of N_K_D Pizza for the GCC and India. “We wanted a user-friendly and secure payment solution that would reduce our interaction with customers’ sensitive payment data. CyberSource’s Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant payment solutions allow us to process transactions seamlessly and safely, whilst minimising the burden of PCI compliance and providing the convenience that our customers deserve.

Mr. Ohan continued, “CyberSource’s Tokenisation service stores sensitive payment information in PCI-certified data centres, bringing additional peace of mind. Upon placing an order, the customer’s payment details are encrypted and transmitted directly to CyberSource for storing and processing. A token is generated allowing N_K_D to use this unique identifier instead of raw payment data—helping us to reduce the costs and complexities associated with payment security and focus on our core business.”

“CyberSource is pleased to work with innovative retailers like N_K_D Pizza in the UAE. Our PCI compliant, hosted payment service integrates seamlessly with their website, allowing them to offer a similar look and feel whilst streamlining the consumer’s online shopping experience,” said Steve Warner, Senior Business Leader, CEMEA, CyberSource. “In using CyberSource’s payment management solutions merchants across multiple sectors can benefit from the increased popularity of eCommerce—delivering more choice and flexibility to consumers, maximising payment data security and minimising the risk of fraud.”

About CyberSource

CyberSource, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Visa Inc., is a payment management company. Over 370,000 businesses worldwide use CyberSource and Authorize.Net brand solutions to process online payments, streamline fraud management, and simplify payment security. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, and maintains offices throughout the world, with regional headquarters in Singapore (Asia Pacific); Tokyo (Japan), Miami/Sao Paulo (Latin America and the Caribbean), and Reading, U.K. (Europe/Middle East/Africa). CyberSource operates in Europe under agreement with Visa Europe. For more information, please visit www.cybersource.com/mea.

About N_K_D Pizza

What if pizza was good for you? And what if you could use fast food as a Trojan Horse to solve a massive social and economic problem by demonstrating that it can be part of the solution to the global epidemic of obesity and chronic disease by making it healthful instead of harmful? And so the idea for Naked Pizza was born, in a 500-square-foot building that took in six feet of water after Hurricane Katrina. There, the company perfected a radically different pizza that uses a diversity of grains, prebiotic agave fiber, and healthful bacteria called probiotics in the crust instead of the traditional one-grain crust made from a single, highly processed, nutritionally stripped carbohydrate. Its pizzas are all-natural (and affordable) — with no preservatives, added sugar, antibiotics or hormones in the sauce, cheese, veggies or meat toppings, promise. For more information, please visit our web-site at nkdpizza.com, follow us on twitter @nkdpizza or like us on Facebook at /nkdpizza.

For further information, please contact:

For CyberSource

Sunayana Kripalani
+9714 4372320
sukripal@cybersource.com

For N_K_D Pizza

Ian Ohan
+971 50 625 6119
ian@nkdpizza.ae

Global Corporate Relations:

Aida Hadzibegovic
650-432-2990
globalmedia@visa.com