EMVStudioIssuer & acquirer labs
Run contact and contactless sessions the way a terminal would, then keep a log you can attach to a test report.
EMV laboratory workbench
The bench for people who
test cards for a living.
EMVStudio is desktop software for card laboratories: run a transaction on a contact or contactless reader, keep a professional session log, and personalize laboratory applications onto Java Cards. Buy a license. Open the workbench. Get to work.
Audience
Built for labs, vendors, classrooms, and consultants.
If your job is to prove a card, a terminal, or a student understood the transaction — this is the seat you buy.
Terminal and kernel teams
Put a known test application on a Java Card and see how your reader, kernel, or POS build behaves — before you book a certification slot.
Universities & R&D
Teach EMV with a real reader and a real card. Students see the session, not a slide.
Consultants
Arrive with a workbench, a set of lab profiles, and a way to reproduce the same result on the next visit.
After you buy
What the license actually unlocks.
A session you can replay
Select the application, walk the EMV path (ODA, GENERATE AC, ARQC), decide host approve or decline, and save the log. That is the daily loop for QA.
Cards you control
Personalize laboratory profiles onto white Java Cards so every bench, classroom, or vendor demo uses the same known application.
One tool on the desk
Reader, log, profiles, and issuance live in a single Windows workbench — signed in with the account you buy here.
Kept current
A paid license includes ongoing workbench updates. We keep shipping fixes and laboratory features so the seat stays worth the money. Free accounts can upgrade to a paid plan; in-app version updates are for paid seats only.
Standard
See every EMV step. Decide like a host.
USD 199 unlocks the full EMV path after records: step-by-step flow, TLV decode, ODA (SDA, DDA, CDA), cryptogram work (GENERATE AC, ARQC, lab ARPC), and a host approve or decline. Keep the log for the lab report.
Get Standard
Professional
Stock the bench with known cards.
USD 799 adds Java Card personalization from your profiles. Same workbench. Every engineer on the project can run the same card on the next reader.
Get ProfessionalPricing
See what each seat unlocks.
Unlicensed is free: install, read records, view templates. Standard unlocks the live session — step-by-step EMV flow, ODA, cryptograms, .ct editing, and in-app updates. Professional adds laboratory issuance. Pay with cryptocurrency. For training or a custom lab, send an inquiry.
Unlicensed
Free
Install the workbench. See records. Open a template. The EMV flow, ODA, and cryptograms stay locked.
- ✓Install and sign in
- ✓Read application records
- ✓View card templates (.ct)
- –Step-by-step EMV flow with TLV decode
- –ODA (SDA/DDA/CDA) and cryptogram (ARQC/ARPC)
- –Edit card templates (.ct)
- –In-app workbench updates
- –Java Card issuance
Upgrade
Standard
Free accounts can upgrade
USD 199
Unlicensed stops after records. Standard opens the full EMV path: ODA, cryptograms, host, and templates.
- ✓Full contact and contactless session
- ✓Step-by-step EMV flow with TLV decode
- ✓ODA: SDA, DDA, and CDA
- ✓Cryptogram detail: GENERATE AC, ARQC, and lab ARPC
- ✓Host approve or decline
- ✓Edit and save card templates (.ct)
- ✓In-app workbench updates
UpgradeRecommended
Professional
Free accounts can upgrade
USD 799
The lab seat: sessions, templates, and cards you issue yourself.
- ✓Everything in Standard
- ✓GlobalPlatform load of laboratory CAP
- ✓Personalize Java Cards from your .ct
- ✓Same known card on every bench
Training & custom work
Inquire
License prices are listed. Ask about training, a custom lab, or the workbench.
- ✓Product and license questions
- ✓Training on the workbench
- ✓Custom profiles and applications
- ✓Lab rollout and on-site weeks
Ready when the reader is on the desk.
Create an account, download the workbench, then pick a license so the bench stays maintained. Send an inquiry if you need training or a custom lab.