OSHA Outreach Courses, which provides workplace training services to employers and employees, said it has added a buy now, pay later option to pay for its instructional offers. Shift4 Payments Inc. has been named the official payment processor for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association. Shopmium, a cash-back shopping …
Read More »TouchBistro Updates POS System And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/23/23
Restaurant point-of-sale provider TouchBistro launched a set of back-of-house technologies, including profit-management and kitchen display systems. Payments provider NMI released first-half 2023 results indicating the company ended the period with connections to more than 3,900 independent software vendors, sales agents, and fintechs. So far, these links have generated more than 2.3 billion transactions and …
Read More »New Jersey Limits Card Surcharging to Merchants’ Processing Fees
New Jersey has implemented a law that prohibits merchants in the state from profiting from credit card surcharging and requires merchants to clearly disclose any surcharges to consumers. The law, which was passed by the New Jersey legislature in June and went into effect immediately upon New Jersey Governor Phil …
Read More »Sephora Is the First Client for J.P. Morgan Payments’ Tap to Pay on iPhone Service
Add Sephora, a beauty retailer, to the list of merchants adopting iPhones as payment-acceptance devices in the Tap to Pay on iPhone program. J.P. Morgan Payments says Sephora is its first such retailer to adopt the contactless-payment service, which does not require special hardware to complete a transaction. Announced Tuesday, …
Read More »Feedzai’s Latin America Move And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/22/23
Feedzai, a U.S. fraud-detection and -prevention company, will offer its services in Latin America through a partnership with Dock, a payments provider specializing in services for that region. TreviPay, a U.S.-based business-to-business payments provider operating in 32 countries, introduced a service to support cases where buyers ask to be invoiced …
Read More »Adyen Launches Pay By Link Through a Partnership With Teamwork Commerce
Teamwork Commerce, a provider of retail-management software, has partnered with Adyen NV to launch Pay by Link, a financial technology platform that enables consumers to pay using a secure URL link provided by the retailer. With Pay by Link, consumers pay using their preferred payment option through a secure link …
Read More »Five Star’s Tap-to-Pay on iPhone And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/21/23
Community financial institution Five Star Bank launched tap-to-pay on iPhone capability for its business clients, allowing merchants to accept contactless payments directly on their iPhones. Fluency, a provider of technology for central bank digital currencies, said it has been selected by Mastercard Inc. to work with the card network on CBDC initiatives. Payments provider Novo …
Read More »Contactless And Mobile Wallets Are Gaining Ground Among Debit Users, a Pulse Study Finds
Consumer affinity for in-person transactions that reduce points of contact are taking hold as contactless payments made with debit cards swelled to 16% of the U.S. card-present share last year from 8% in 2021. It’s a similar story with debit cards used with mobile wallets. Their use increased from 5% …
Read More »Presto Counts 13 QSR Franchisee Groups Using Its AI-Based Ordering System
Presto Automation Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence-based voice-ordering systems for quick service restaurants with drive-through windows, announced it now has deals with 13 QSR franchise groups that own and operate more than 500 locations nationwide. All 13 groups have committed to begin deploying Presto Voice, Presto’s Presto’s in-house, proprietary …
Read More »Citizens Pay Adds Apple POS Financing Option And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/18/23
Upgraded, a service that lets Apple MacBook buyers pay over time, announced it is launching in the United States in a partnership with Citizens Pay, a point-of-sale financing service of Citizens Bank. Adyen NV, a Dutch payments platform that competes in the U.S. market against companies like Stripe, Fiserv, PayPal, …
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