Point-of-sale

March, 2025

• 12 March

  How New Capital Positions Fortis to Pursue Faster Growth

  

  Fortis Payment Systems LLC early Thursday announced it is receiving a capital infusion from a new investor, Audax Private Equity, as well as from an existing investor, Lovell Minnick Partners. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. A privately held company, Fortis actively began seeking new investors about six …
• 12 March

  PayMaple Adds Real-Time Payments and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/12/25

  

  Payments platform PayMaple LLC launched a new accounts-payable service enabling vendor payments via real-time payments, the automated clearing house, or virtual cards. The last option is expected by the third quarter, the company says. Vitesse, a specialist in claims payments for the insurance industry, is working with Five Sigma Ltd., a claims-management …
• 11 March

  Cash Use Slips As Digital Payments Grow, Says Worldpay Survey

  

  As credit and debit cards—and their digital doppelgangers—continue to find favor among consumers, the use of cash over the past 10 years has slipped from 44% of in-store spend to 15% in 2024, finds the latest Worldpay Global Payments Report. Released Tuesday, the report, now in its 10th year, says …
• 10 March

  Affirm Extends Its Reach With Apparel Retailers; Splitit Offers a Digital Wallet

  

  Buy now, pay later specialist Affirm Holdings Inc. continues to expand into fashion merchants through a partnership with online fashion-marketplace StockX. Apparel merchants are a fast-growing merchant category for Affirm. The BNPL provider has added 55 apparel sellers in the past six months, including StockX. In addition, transactions in its apparel and …
• 10 March

  Shift4’s Lunchbox Stake and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/10/25

  

  Shift4 Payments Inc. has chosen ordering-technology provider Lunchbox Technologies as a partner for Shift4’s SkyTab platform and has also invested in the company. The extent of the investment was not disclosed. Meanwhile, Lunchbox has appointed hospitality-industry veteran James Walker chief executive. Ingo Money Inc. said its Ingo Payments service agreed to work …
• 7 March

  For Many, It’s Device First To Make a Contactless Payment

  

  Ten years ago, the U.S. payment card market made its shift to EMV chip cards, and along with that the industry prepared for more contactless payments. That work by issuers and card brands appears to have paid off because 92% of consumers are now familiar with NFC, the technology that …
• 6 March

  Digital Wallet Developers Score a Victory in the Senate

  

  The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted 51-47 to scrub a regulation issued in November by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and aimed at mobile wallets and digital money transfers. The repeal legislation, which now moves to the House of Representatives, comes as major payment-app developers like Apple Inc., Block Inc., …
• 6 March

  Priority Revenue up 14% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/6/25

  

  Processor Priority Technology Holdings reported fourth-quarter 2024 revenue of $$227.1 million, up 13.9% year-over-year. Revenue for the year totaled $879.7 million, up 16.4% over 2023. The company’s net income swung to a positive $7.2 million for the quarter from a $106,000 loss a year earlier. For the full year, net income was …
• 5 March

  FedNow Limit Bumped to $1 Million and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/5/25

  

  The Federal Reserve announced its FedNow real-time payments network this summer will raise its transaction limit to $1 million from $500,000. FedNow was launched in 2023. Kasheesh Inc. launched a loyalty program called Kasheesh Rewards, aimed at letting users earn rewards based on spending. Kasheesh’s platform allows users to split transactions across credit, debit, and …
• 4 March

  Restaurants Need Better Systems; Small Business Sales Slow

  

  Most restaurants feel their current financial technology stack, which includes point-of-sale systems, needs improvement, according to SpotOn Transact LLC’s 2025 Restaurant Business report. SpotOn’s survey found 84% of restaurants say their current financial systems need an overhaul. Of those, nearly half say they should spend more time on financial tracking, …