Mobile Commerce

Square, the payment-processing unit of San Francisco-based Block Inc., has unveiled two new apps for Square Terminal. The new apps, Square for Retail and Square Appointments, enable merchants to accept payments, returns, exchanges, and inventory inquiries at the counter, on the sales floor, curbside, or by opening another checkout counter …

Clients using Recurly Inc. to manage their subscription-pricing models have a new feature to use. Recurly on Tuesday launched a ramp-pricing model that enables its clients to dynamically increase or decrease pricing within their subscriptions. This is in addition to the fixed, one-time, usage-based, tiered, volume, stairstep, and hybrid models …

The Federal Trade Commission has launched a probe into whether security tokens issued by Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. interfere with the ability of processors to route debit card transactions to alternative networks, according to The Wall Street Journal. Network choice for debit card transactions is mandated by the Durbin Amendment to the 2011 …

PayPal Holdings Inc. has been on a drive for some time to reinforce consumer engagement with its products, and early Monday it launched its latest gambit to spur interactions with its still relatively new app. The so-called super app, launched a year ago, now includes a direct connection with Honey, …

Fintech app Karma launched Pay with Karma, an embedded checkout service that enables for consumers a simplified purchase experience across different retailers with multiple payment options.Ammo Inc., owner of GunBroker.com, an online marketplace for the firearms and shooting-sports industry, said it will launch a proprietary payment-processing platform on or about Jan. 1.Mastercard …

Consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics is looking to expand to 13 new markets for its Samsung Wallet service. Announced Friday, the expansion of the digital-wallet platform will more than double its presence from the eight nations where it is already available. Samsung Wallet is the new brand for the combined …

The controversy regarding fraud and scams on the Zelle peer-to-peer payment network reached a new level on Thursday with a short statement from Early Warning Services LLC, the bank-owned company that operates Zelle, referring to “misleading reports of fraud and scams” on the network and “incomplete” external analysis from outside …

Remitly Global Inc. Thursday announced it is making Visa Direct, Visa Inc.’s real-time push-payments platform, available to its customers in Canada. The deal expands Remitly’s online remittance service in Canada by providing Visa Direct as a payout option, the company says. With Visa Direct, Remitly customers in Canada can now …

Chargebacks are the bane of e-commerce retailers, but new data from ACI Worldwide Inc. indicate many may have them mostly in check. Separately, Forter launched Smart Claims, a product to help better manage chargebacks. Released Thursday, the new ACI data find that overall fraud attempts remained flat at 0.01%, despite …

A new Juniper Research report forecasted e-commerce fraud will exceed $48 billion globally in 2023, up from $41 billion in 2022.BJ’s Wholesale Club has selected Capital One as the issuer of the retailer’s cobranded Mastercard, which is set to launch early next year.Galileo Financial Technologies said it has been Visa Ready certified as an …