DoorDash Inc. has added 13 grocery-store chains to its platform that will accept electronic benefits transfer and SNAP cards for payment. The list of grocers—which includes, ACME Markets, Food City, Hy-Vee, Jewel-Osco, Kings Food Markets, Pavilions, Randalls, Shaw’s, Sprouts Farmers Market, Star Market, Stater Bros. Markets, Tom Thumb, and Vons—comprises …

The restaurant and related hospitality market has attracted plenty of attention the past few years from payment platforms, rendering the market one of the hottest in the field of digital payments and marketing. And the trend shows no signs of cooling off, as processors and related service providers look to …

In its first earnings report since its split from the former NCR Corp., point-of-sale and digital-commerce technology provider NCR Voyix Corp. on Thursday said it added 14,000 sites to its platform in 2023. Atlanta-based NCR Voyix’s platform handles payments, business-management and marketing functions for retailers, restaurants, and banks, and the …

Wide-ranging disruptions in microchip supply slammed the payments industry hard from 2020 to 2022. Now, are terminal makers better prepared? Back in 2020 and 2021, terminal makers were scrambling to get their hands on the microchips they needed to power their devices. Lead times on orders had stretched to 18 …

Having closed on two key acquisitions, the big processor Shift4 Payments Inc. is looking to expand its business in Canada and Europe and build on its new beachhead in sports arenas, top management said early Tuesday. With its $100-million deal last fall to acquire Appetize Technologies Inc. from SpotOn Transact …

A new fast-food and beverage concept called CosMc’s is using the Xenial cloud-based point-of-sale system from Global Payments Inc. CosMc’s is a beverage-first restaurant developed by McDonald’s Corp. with one location so far. Xenial, a Global Payments company, supplies it enterprise-level POS system to CosMc’s. Xenial was originally part of …

Cryptocurrency as a payment method is only wanted by less than 1% of online shoppers surveyed in a Chargebacks911 report. The survey was performed by consulting and research firm TSG of 4,000 consumers. Payments platform ConnexPay said it is working with the UATP network and has launched its ConnexPay UATP card, a virtual card that …

Restaurant point-of-sale specialist Lavu Inc. notes more than 1 billion orders have been placed on its POS platform. This comes as Lavu starts a restaurant advertising program featuring billboard advertising. Lavu, which debuted with an iOS app in 2010, now has customers in 65 countries. The billboard program, however, harkens …

Shares in restaurant point-of-sale specialist Toast Inc. were trading modestly up early Friday following the company’s release late Thursday of December-quarter and full-year results indicating double-digit increases in client locations and payments volume and offering further evidence of the hospitality industry’s recovery from the 2020 pandemic. The results came as …

Shift4 Payments Inc. launched SkyTab Website Builder, a tool enabling restaurants to more easily design a Web site. Businesses using Shift4’s SkyTab point-of-sale payments technology can access the new service for free. Blackhawk Network announced Select Codes, which businesses can send to customers to enable access to prepaid gift cards. Bank of …