Mobile Commerce

The federal court overseeing a $5.54-billion settlement between millions of card-accepting merchants, on one hand, and Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc., on the other, over interchange costs recently took several steps that ultimately could get payments out to merchants. But checks still won’t be in the mail for some time. …

Amazon.com late Thursday unveiled Buy with Prime cart, a new feature of the e-commerce giant’s Buy With Prime benefit intended to increase order sizes. Buy With Prime users can now place multiple items in their shopping cart, whereas they were previously limited to a single item per order, Amazon says. …

Airlines Reporting Corp. announced it has started processing payments through its ARC Pay application programming interface for the online travel agency Business Travel Group LLC’s Business Class brand. The Western Union Co. announced it will offer free money transfers for funds consumers around the world send to Libya in the wake of severe …

GoTab Inc., a provider of digital ordering and payment solutions for the hospitality industry, has introduced Pocket POS, a mobile point-of-sale terminal about the size of a mobile phone that enables servers to take orders, manage tabs, process payments, and communicate with hosts and hostesses, as well as kitchen staff, …

A growing volume of cross-border transactions is fueling the development of real-time payment services, according to a new report from Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and research firm Datos Insights. The report also says businesses stand to lose if they’re slow to invest in real-time payments. Some 80% of …

Shift4 Payments Inc. has reached an agreement to become the processor for timeshare rental and resale marketplace RedWeek.com. Under the terms of the deal, Shift4 will process RedWeek.com’s timeshare rental and membership transactions, handle direct customer billing and recurring payments, and manage chargebacks, fraud, and reporting capabilities. A competitor to …

In an expansion of its existing processing relationship with PayPal Holdings Inc., ride-sharing technology provider Uber Technologies Inc. will begin making use of PayPal’s domestic debit network routing in the United States and other markets and enable Uber drivers to receive wages directly in their PayPal and Venmo wallets. PayPal …

E-commerce platform Wix.com Ltd. looks to make it easier for its merchants with stores to accept physical payments with the debut of Tap to Pay on Android. The technology, coming from Stripe Inc., means merchants can accept contactless payments with a regular Android smart phone and no additional hardware. Tap …

Some 90% of businesses are “concerned” about whether they will be able to meet a March 2025 deadline for compliance with PCI DSS 4.0, a newly updated payments-security standard, according to a survey from payments-security firm Bluefin and S&P Global Market Intelligence. The survey was conducted during the second quarter and included …

Step one for Hyundai Pay, the in-car payment service debuting in the 2024 Kona crossover, is enabling payments for parking while sitting in the driver’s seat. Step two is broadening its capabilities and making it an integral part of the vehicle, Olabisi Boyle, Hyundai Motor North America vice president of …