January retail sales, excluding automotive, were up 8.8% over January 2022, Mastercard Inc. said in its latest SpendingPulse report. Restaurant spending, in particular, was high at 24.2% more sales year-over-year. Spending on Bank of America Corp. credit and debit cards increased 5.1% year-over-year in January in a sign the bank interprets as “signs of …

Toast Inc. has partnered with SoundHound AI Inc. to add voice ordering over the phone to its point-of-sale system. The addition of SoundHound’s voice-ordering software will enable restaurants using Toast’s POS system to accept voice orders over the phone and transmit the order directly to Toast’s platform. This integration, which …

Ordeno has become the latest player to jump into the highly competitive restaurant POS market with the launch of the Ordeno app. The company expects to differentiate its app from those of competitors by providing what it bills as a richer list of services that includes the ability to access …

Point-of-sale system maker TouchBistro released its 2023 “State of Restaurants” report that found 76% of restaurant operators changed their POS systems in the past year and 66% used a system with an integrated payment processing service. The study, now in its fifth year, was based on research from 600 full service restaurant …

OTG Management, which manages airport restaurants, said it is supporting contactless payments and an expansion of Apple Pay and Google Pay acceptance, along with PayPal and Venmo, at two newly opened restaurants at LaGuardia airport. BigCommerce said merchants using its e-commerce sales had a 31% increase year-over-year in gross merchandise value …

The tech giant Oracle Corp. early this summer launched a cloud-based payments-processing service aimed at the hotly contested restaurant market, and early on Wednesday the company added a handheld device for servers to use tableside. The new terminal, dubbed the Oracle Micros Simphony mobile order and pay device, runs on …