Point-of-sale

February, 2025

• 17 February

  Now Book It Expands to Canada

  

  Now Book It, a vendor of table-reservation and payments software for restaurants in Australia and New Zealand, has expanded to Canada. Canada has more than 100,000 locations that serve food, such as restaurants, cafés and brew pubs, generating $112 billion in annual sales, according to Restaurants Canada. In addition, 23 …
• 17 February

  InComm’s Red Cross Donation and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/17/25

  

  InComm Payments, which has launched the Mastercard Give Hope gift card, has agreed to donate to the American Red Cross $2 from the purchase price of each card sold on mastercardgiftcard.com. Cubic Transportation Systems Inc., a developer of payments technologies for mass-transit systems, announced it is opening an innovation center …
• 14 February

  Clover, Square, And Epos Now Top a Javelin Ranking of POS Systems for Small Businesses

  

  The days of placing a point-of-sale terminal on a small business’s countertop and calling it enough have long passed. Now, as these merchants—defined as having less than $1 million in annual sales—want just as much varied payment acceptance and operational software sophistication as much larger ones, Javelin Strategy & Research …
• 14 February

  EasyPark Acquires Rival Parkopedia and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/14/25

  

  EasyPark Group, a provider of technology that allows drivers to find and pay for parking, said it has acquired rival parking app developer Parkopedia. Terms were not announced. The health-care fintech Veuu Inc. announced it will work with Wipro Ltd., a consulting company, to develop an instant-payment service for transactions between payers …
• 13 February

  Global Payments Gets Set for a Rollout of Genius, Its POS Package

  

  Global Payments Inc. will roll out its revamped Genius point-of-sale package of products and services domestically in May as a common brand, with an international rollout late this year, chief executive Cameron Bready assured listeners on a conference call early Thursday. A major repositioning of the Atlanta-based company’s acquiring technology, …
• 13 February

  Stripe Teams With Spade on Data Tool for Issuers

  

  Stripe Inc. announced late Wednesday it is partnering with Spade, a provider of real-time merchant intelligence for card issuers, to provide issuers on the Stripe platform with data to verify a merchant’s identity during the authorization process. Spade provides information such as merchant name, category, and geolocation within 50 milliseconds. …
• 12 February

  Eye on Travel: Cruise Line Gets Onboard With PayPal; Worldline And Freedom Eye Travel Expansion

  

  It may be the midst of winter, but some payment companies are preparing for the travel season. Travelers booking passage on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship can now use their PayPal Holdings Inc. digital wallet to pay for their cruises. PayPal says the payment option is available for trips with …
• 11 February

  Worldpay Is Doing Well, But It’s Not a ‘Growth Driver’ for FIS, Execs Say

  

  Top executives at FIS Inc. early Tuesday reported accelerating revenue in 2024 and see that momentum carrying into the new year, but the energy appears to be coming from financial technologies apart from the big Worldpay merchant-processing platform. “Worldpay has not been a growth driver in 2024, and won’t be …
• 11 February

  Paysafe Offloads Part of its Business and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 2/11/25

  

  Paysafe Ltd. has agreed to sell its direct marketing payment processing business, including reseller and merchant contracts, to Kort Payments, a company run by Joel Leonoff, Paysafe’s founder and former chief executive. Terms were not announced. Paysafe said this business “consists of direct marketing and other card-not-present volume in both complex …
• 10 February

  Eye on BNPL: Affirm’s Toothy Win; Gateway Adds Klarna Integration

  

  Coast Dental, a dental practice with 100 locations in Florida, Georgia, and Texas, added Affirm’s buy now, pay later payment options. In related news, Decta Ltd., a United Kingdom-based fintech, has integrated Klarna AB’s BNPL service into its white-label payment gateway. Tampa, Fla.-based Coast Dental says the Affirm payment option …