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Online payments powerhouse Stripe Inc. Tuesday introduced Stripe Revenue Recognition, an application intended to automate the mapping of money to a balance sheet. The development of Revenue Recognition was spurred by the accounting needs of merchants and businesses that are paid upfront for goods and services to be delivered in …
September, 2021
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22 September
Eye on BNPL: Affirm Combines Repayment Options And SeaWorld Offers Uplift Installments
As the buy now, pay later payment option continues to permeate commerce, Affirm Inc. fine tunes its repayment options and Uplift hooks SeaWorld as a client. San Francisco-based Affirm says its new Adaptive Checkout gives consumers the option to pay in biweekly or monthly installments. The service will dynamically present a …
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22 September
Chevron Picks P97 for App Updates and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/22/21
Chevron Products Co. said it is working with mobile-payments technology provider P97 Networks Inc. to enhance the company’s mobile apps for both Chevron and Texaco customers.Mercator Advisory Group’s “18th Annual U.S. Closed-Loop Prepaid Cards Market Forecast 2020-2025” found that closed-loop prepaid card loads dropped 14% because of the pandemic, but are expected …
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21 September
PayPal Launches Its ‘Super App’ With a Raft of Shopping, Payments, And Banking Features
PayPal Holdings Inc. on Tuesday launched a new version of its mobile app with a panoply of new shopping and financial features aimed at broadening the product’s appeal with consumers who are increasingly turning to online commerce. The big refresh, the first PayPal has executed on its digital wallet for …
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21 September
Despite Booming E-Commerce Sales, Grocers Struggle With Online Profitability
Since the pandemic hit, e-commerce has been a boon for many merchants. Still there’s one merchant segment that has not fared so well with online sales: grocers. They’re finding the channel not particularly profitable, according to reports. Despite the number of online grocery shoppers increasing five-fold in 2020 compared to …
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21 September
FNBO Launches BNPL Service and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/21/21
The First National Bank of Omaha launched a buy now, pay later service that enables merchants to offer installment payments to consumers. FNBO tapped EXL, an operations management and analytics company, and Skeps, a point-of-sale loan originations platform, to help develop the service. The BNPL service can be integrated into e-commerce Web …
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20 September
Check Partners With Procare To Provide Digital Payroll Services To Child Care Centers
Responding to child-care administrators’ need for improved payroll services, payroll-as-a-service startup Check Technologies Inc. has partnered with Procare Software LLC to provide digital-payroll services to Procare’s child-care center business-management platform. The deal comes at a time when strained resources during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic have accelerated child-care centers’ need for …
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20 September
One Inc. Begins to Speed Insurance-Claims Payouts for Amerisure
Faster-payments providers have long identified insurance-claims payouts as a ripe market, and the business took big step in that direction with the announcement early Monday that the insurance carrier Amerisure has begun implementing ClaimsPay, a digital-payments platform from the 9-year-old fintech One Inc. The four-stage implementation is expected to replace …
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20 September
Priority Completes Finxera Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 9/20/21
Payments provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc. completed its acquisition of Finxera Holdings Inc., a provider of banking-as-a-service software. Terms of the deal, which was announced in March, were not announced.Payment-fraud prevention provider Inetco Systems Ltd. launched BullzAI, a single technology combining a Web application firewall with a real-time fraud-detection and blocking system.The Tampa Hillsborough …
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17 September
Contactless Payment Rises—And So Do Back-to-School Purchases—PSCU Report Shows
Contactless credit card transactions caught up to their debit counterparts as a percent of volume in August, with 17% of total card-present volume, as tracked in the monthly PSCU Payments Index, attributed to the payment form. That matches the share for contactless debit transactions. PSCU, a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based credit …