Marketing

Clover, Fiserv Inc.’s point-of-sale platform, has launched Clover Hospitality by BentoBox, a customized point-of-sale system for high-end restaurants. Clover Hospitality enables restaurants to build an online presence to engage with consumers through Web sites and enable online ordering and reservations. It also includes marketing tools designed to increase customer loyalty …

Authvia, a platform for conversational commerce and payment by text, will work with Sinch, developer of cloud-based customer communications, to allow businesses to offer mobile-payments capability within messaging platforms such as SMS and WhatsApp. Shift4 Payments Inc. announced it is expanding its processing capabilities in the travel industry through an alliance …

At the helm of Deluxe Corp. since 2018, Barry McCarthy is seeing a payoff from the company’s shift from paper-based to electronic payments. Minneapolis-based Deluxe, which posted $2.1 billion in 2024 revenue, has seen its percentage of overall revenue attributed to its payments services, which includes merchant services and business-to-business …

With consumers and small-business owners long accustomed to mobile phones, Square is counting on that familiarity to make its new Square Handheld device an easier-to-use point-of-sale device. Calling Square Handheld, which is roughly the size of a smart phone though thicker, its most powerful and portable POS device ever, Square …

Arborgold, a software provider for landscapers, launched Arborgold Payments, allowing users to process credit, debit, and automated clearing house payments within the Arborgold software. Tillo, a gift card and rewards platform, announced it has received an investment from Tenzing, a technology investor. The sum of the investment was not disclosed. …

ONE.io, a specialist in digital-currency payments, and BoomFi, a cryptocurrency-technology provider, announced they will launch ONE Gateway, designed to allow ONE.io clients to accept crypto payments while automatically receiving settlement in fiat currency. In related news, SmartMedia Technologies, a loyalty and payments technology provider for blockchain-based transactions, launched its Pay with …

Electronic Merchant Systems, also known as EMS, said it has invested in Payment Nerds and Pet Payments, both of which have signed distribution agreements with EMS. The extent of the investment was not disclosed. Merchant services and check printer Deluxe Corp. reported $536.5 million in first quarter 20245 revenue, up 0.3% from …

A test this past September of a real-time pay by bank payments option inside the Walmart app indicates the service is on track for a broader debut in 2025, Digital Transactions News has learned. Speaking at the Nacha Smarter Faster Payments 2025 conference in New Orleans, Sarah Arnio, Walmart Inc. …

As consumers navigate tighter budgets and businesses adapt to shifting spending habits, buy now, pay later (BNPL) has emerged as more than just a passing trend. Like layaway in the days of yore, BNPL breaks purchases into smaller pieces. However, unlike layaway, BNPL meets the need for instant gratification by …

Digital wallets provide a variety of benefits to consumers, including convenience speed, security, and record keeping, but they also pose risks for users and stand to be improved in several areas, says a study from Consumers Reports. Consumers Reports evaluated six wallets—Apple Pay, Cash App, Google Pay, PayPal, Samsung Pay, …