Point-of-sale

May, 2026

• 4 May

  April Small Business Sales up 1.1%, Fiserv Says

  

  Small business sales, as tracked in the Fiserv Small Business index, were up 1.1% year-over-year in April, buoyed in part by a 2.8% increase in higher average tickets, finds the latest edition of the index. Released Monday, the index found the April increase in the average ticket was the highest …
• 4 May

  Tray’s Maple AI Integration and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/4/26

  

  Point-of-sale system provider Tray said it and Maple, an artificial intelligence voice platform for restaurants, completed an integration to make Maple’s technology available to restaurant operators using Tray. The Western Union Co. said it will use Fireblocks, a digital asset infrastructure company, to provide the infrastructure behind USDPT, Western Union’s U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin. …

April, 2026

• 30 April

  Three Months In, the New PayPal CEO Sparks a Sweeping Reorganization

  

  Barely three months since taking over the top spot at PayPal Holdings Inc., Enrique Lores is heading up a reorganization of the venerable payments company. Announced late Wednesday following a CNBC report earlier in the day, PayPal says it will migrate to a three-business operating model. The three are checkout …
• 30 April

  Mastercard Eyes Data From Ventures in Stablecoins And AI

  

  Like other international payments networks, Mastercard Inc. is wrestling with the impact of the conflict in the Middle East while at the same time adjusting to the ripple effects of agentic commerce and digital currency. Early Thursday, the company’s top executives took pains to assure the financial community that they’re …
• 30 April

  Shift4 Lines up Wrigley Field and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/30/26

  

  Shift4 Payments Inc. said it will provide point-of-sale services at Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team, and at Gallagher Way, the entertainment district adjacent to the ballpark. American Express Co. announced new and beefed-up benefits to mark the 60th anniversary of its gold card, including quintupled membership …
• 29 April

  Eye on Point of Sale: MoneyGram Adopts Stripe for Retail Locations; Lightspeed Divests Upserve

  

  Stripe Inc. has notched money-transfer services as a customer category with MoneyGram’s adoption of the payment processor’s technology for its retail locations. Additionally, Lightspeed Commerce Inc. is selling Upserve, a hospitality point-of-sale platform it acquired in 2020. Dallas-based MoneyGram International Inc., which went private in 2023, says it will use …
• 29 April

  Visa Looks to Expansion in Stablecoins And Agentic Commerce

  

  Visa Inc. early Wednesday announced it is expanding support for agent-led commerce to Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region, and also said it is widening its venture in stablecoins with the addition of five blockchains, bringing the total to nine. The five additional blockchains include Arc from Circle Internet Financial, …
• 28 April

  Square Unveils Its Managerbot, And Toast’s New Device Goes Abroad

  

  Two major providers of point-of-sale payments technology announced early Tuesday they are expanding key initiatives that have been long in development. For one of these providers the expansion goes well beyond payments. Block Inc.’s Square POS unit launched its Managerbot technology among sellers participating in an open beta. Based on Square …
• 27 April

  EVS Launches AssureACH and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/27/26

  

  Electronic Verification Systems launched AssureACH, a service to prevent fraud at the point of capture. Among its features are real-time demand deposit account and routing number validation. MiCamp Solutions has agreed to serve as an independent sales organization representing Vibe Retail, a developer of point-of-sale technology aimed at independent merchants. The Electronic Transactions …
• 24 April

  Maple’s Voice-Ordering Comes to Quantic and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/24/26

  

  Voice-ordering specialist Maple Inc. said it is working with Quantic POS, a cloud-based point-of-sale system provider, to make Maple’s artificial intelligence voice-ordering platform available to Quantic merchants. Coastal Pay Inc. released its updated payment gateway that offers easier surcharging and dual pricing compatibility. Buy now, pay later provider Sunbit said it is now available on …