SheerID Inc., a provider of identity-verification technology, and software developer Payment Plugins are collaborating to provide a consumer identity-verification solution for e-commerce platform provider WooCommerce. The deal will seek to enable WooCommerce merchants to reduce fraud by ensuring gated offers and discounts are being used by customers who are the …

When it comes to online checkout, consumers like using digital wallets. Seventy-two percent of them value digital-payment tools like digital wallets to make the online checkout easier, says Paze in its inaugural Paze Pulse report. Paze is an upcoming digital wallet from Early Warning Services LLC. Backed by seven large …

E-commerce checkouts are still too clunky. Now, efforts by payments experts and at least one new network may at last solve that problem. In the battle for the e-commerce checkout—with a successful sale counting as a win—the accelerated checkout is gaining favor. One contender that’s not even available yet may …

We know you’re not looking for problems. But they are looking for you. Here’s our annual catalog of the ones causing the most headaches. If adversity breeds strength, as the old saying goes, then payments professionals may have plenty of opportunity to develop their strategic and tactical biceps. The industry …

Though the official launch of the Paze online wallet from Early Warning Services LLC isn’t slated until 2024, Paze executives are already demonstrating the product. As many as 150 million credit and debit cards from seven large banks could be loaded into Paze, complete with billing addresses, as Early Warning …

Though not as credit and debit card friendly as some industries, the legalized cannabis industry continues to create opportunities for payments companies. Among the latest developments are the release of POSaBIT Systems Corp.’s latest point-of-sale system and a new program from Organic Payment Gateways. Bellevue, Wash.-based POSaBIT says its POSaBIT …

PayPal Holdings Inc. has added four new features to its payment service for small online businesses that are expected to increase conversion, reduce declines and the risk of fraud, and provide greater transparency into processing costs. PayPal’s small business customers will now be able to offer Apple Pay at checkout, …

In an expansion of the Just Walk Out technology that powers cashierless Amazon Go stores, Amazon.com Inc. is partnering with Transact Campus Inc., a provider of campus identification systems that enable student access to buildings and payments for such campus services as dining, laundry, and vending. Under the terms of …

The Western Union Co. has collaborated with the fintech Beforepay to offer users in Australia the option of boosting money transfers with loans up to 2,000 Australian dollars ($1,349 US) in a service billed as send now, pay later. American Express Co., working with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, will …

Oracle Corp. said restaurant chain Big Boy Restaurant Group LLC will adopt its Micros Simphony Cloud Point of Sale and Oracle Payment Cloud Service. Payments provider Paysafe Ltd. said it has expanded its processing services to sports betting in Ohio. The move follows on the heels of Paysafe’s entry in the Maryland sports-betting …