Point-of-sale

July, 2021

• 1 July

  Contactless Parking Expands As ParkMobile Grows Its Presence in North Carolina

  

  ParkMobile LLC Thursday expanded its partnership with parking-lot operator The Car Park to Raleigh, Asheville, and Boone, North Carolina. Previously, The Car Park worked with another payment provider in those cities. The deal also builds on an existing relationship The Car Park has with ParkMobile in Tampa, Boise, Estes Park, …

June, 2021

• 30 June

  COMMENTARY: The Case for Integrated Payments Providers

  

  If there’s a software need for your business—accounting, payroll management, lease portfolio management, and the like— then it’s likely your business is working with several different vendors at any given point during the working day. All the vendors you are working with won’t always be obvious, particularly if you’re working …
• 29 June

  COMMENTARY: How Digital Revolving Credit Can Build a Lasting E-Commerce Model

  

  Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) options have become a staple in the E-commerce marketplace, mostly because they provide merchants and their customers an attractive and flexible alternative to credit cards. This has proven particularly appealing to younger shoppers such as Millennials, or Generation Z consumers up to 24 years old. …
• 29 June

  Afterpay’s Rewards Program Grows and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/29/21

  

  Buy now, pay later specialist Afterpay Ltd. expanded its points-based Pulse Rewards program to all users. The company claims 17 million users in North America.Rival BNPL specialist Klarna AB announced it will offer financing to client merchants through business-finance platform Liberis Ltd.Rectangle Health, a payments provider specializing in doctors’ offices, is working with DoctorLogic …
• 28 June

  Cardknox Is the Latest Player to Adopt QR Codes for Contactless Payments

  

  As the popularity of using quick-response codes for payment at the point-of-sale grows, the trend toward offering the technology to software developers and merchants has gained momentum and now includes small and mid-sized processors. Omnichannel payment gateway Cardknox Development Inc. on Monday became the latest processor to enter the fray, …
• 28 June

  Slice Payments on the Menu for Pizzerias and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/28/21

  

  Slice, which provides an ordering and payment app for independent pizzerias, added Slice Payments as an in-store payment platform. Slice Payments can be used with Slice Register, its point-of-sale service, or as a standalone option.Splitit Inc., a U.S. buy now, pay later provider, said it will integrate its installment-payment platform with tabby, …
• 25 June

  Through an Expanded Walmart MoneyCard, Green Dot Sharpens Its Focus on Banking Services

  

  Green Dot Corp. has been steadily building its product roster in financial services for the underbanked, with the latest development emerging this week in the form of an expanded focus for the 15-year-old Walmart MoneyCard. The prepaid card, issued by Green Dot Bank and branded by Mastercard or Visa, can …
• 25 June

  EMV 3-D Secure 2.0 Use Soars and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/25/21

  

  Global payment transaction volume authenticated with EMV 3-D Secure 2.0 increased 1,667% in the first quarter year-over-year, according to Outseer’s latest quarterly fraud and payments report. The same type of volume authenticated with the previous version of EMV 3-D Secure increased 59% for the same period. Outseer is an authentication services provider.Payments …
• 23 June

  Besides E-Commerce, the Pandemic Also Gave Mobile Wallets And the Buy Online, Pick Up in Store Option a Lift

  

  Plenty of reports since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic have documented how consumers have responded by shifting to e-commerce—some for the first time—but few reports break out the impact on the mobile segment of that number. It turns out the pandemic has spurred considerable shopping by mobile-phone users, as …
• 23 June

  Afterpay BNPL App Adds Large Retailers and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/23/21

  

  Buy now, pay later specialist Afterpay Ltd. said it is now available through its app to customers of Amazon, CVS, Dell, Kroger, Macy’s, Nike, Target, Walgreen’s, and other major brands.EVO Payments Inc. has added automated clearing house processing to its PayFabric gateway. EVO’s ACH processing can be integrated into a merchant’s Web site …