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Point-of-sale

January, 2023

  • 16 January

    Toshiba Pairs With PopID And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/16/23

    Retail-technology provider Toshiba has agreed to incorporate biometric identification technology from PopID into its point-of-sale and self-service devices running on Toshiba’s Elera Commerce Platform. PopID’s technology relies on facial-recognition software. Ingenico launched its Axium Retail Core capabilities for its Axium point-of-sale terminals that can ease integration efforts. Payments provider FreedomPay said it has integrated its services with the …

  • 13 January

    Eye on Acquiring: FreedomPay Marks Moneris Integration; MagTek Readers Are Top Picks

    FreedomPay Inc. said its payments services will soon be available to Canadian merchants serviced by Moneris Solutions Corp. Moneris expects the FreedomPay integration to be available mid-year. Toronto-based Moneris, one of the largest processors in Canada based on transaction volume, says the integration will give merchants more tools and choices. …

  • 12 January

    Citcon Adds Klarna to Its Mobile Wallet

    Citcon USA LLC is partnering with Klarna AB to add Klarna’s payment services to its mobile wallet for in-store and online purchases. The move expands to Citcon merchants Klarna’s Pay in 4 buy now, pay later loans, as well as Klarna Pay in 30 and other Klarna financing products. Consumers …

  • 12 January

    How Netevia Seeks to Be ‘a Square for ISOs’

    Payments platforms have worked for years to find the key to winning and keeping merchants while also holding on to independent sales organizations, the agents that are key to signing up merchants. Now Netevia Group LLC thinks it’s found that key in banking. “It’s a pretty simple strategy,” says Vlad …

  • 12 January

    Oracle Tweaks Contactless Acceptance And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/12/23

    Oracle Corp. launched its Retail Payment Cloud Service to support contactless payments for U.S. retailers at fixed-fee rate pricing. Mercatus Technologies Inc. debuted an updated version of its mobile grocery shopping app that includes seamless cart building and checkout, personalization, rewards and loyalty, and third-party delivery service integrations. MobileCoin Inc. launched Moby, a …

  • 11 January

    Checkout And Payments Now Play a Key Role in the Customer Experience, a Paysafe Study Finds

    Checkout is gaining a higher profile in payments, and that’s influencing customer retention as well as a merchant’s ability to attract new customers, says a new study from Paysafe Ltd. That means modernizing checkout needs to be at the top of brick-and-mortar merchants’ to-do list in 2023, the study adds. …

  • 11 January

    Del Taco Is the Latest QSR Chain to Roll Out Presto’s AI-Based Ordering System

    Mexican quick-service restaurant chain Del Taco LLC is rolling out an artificial intelligence-based voice-ordering system from Presto Automation Inc. The new system is expected to fully automate orders placed at the drive-thru window, dramatically reducing the need for drive-thru staff to take orders. Lake Forest, Calif.-based Del Taco, which has …

  • 11 January

    Card Spending up 5.9% in 2022 And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/11/23

    Total card spending per household was up 5.9% year-over-year in 2022, according to new data from the Bank of America Institute. Kubra, which provides a payment network enabling consumers to pay bills with cash at retailers, said retailer Rite Aid joined its network, the 19th to do so. Blaze, a point-of-sale …

  • 10 January

    Working With Toast, SoundHound Enables Voice Ordering Over the Phone for Restaurants

    Toast Inc. has partnered with SoundHound AI Inc. to add voice ordering over the phone to its point-of-sale system. The addition of SoundHound’s voice-ordering software will enable restaurants using Toast’s POS system to accept voice orders over the phone and transmit the order directly to Toast’s platform. This integration, which …

  • 10 January

    POS Provider Tulip Enlists Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone Via Adyen

    Apple Inc.’s Tap to Pay on iPhone has lined up another point-of-sale system supporter. Tulip, a point-of-sale system maker for omnichannel and enterprise merchants, now supports the contactless payment technology via an integration with processor Adyen NV. Announced Tuesday, the integration means Tulip merchants can use iPhones to accept payments …

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