Merchant Innovation

CardFlight Snags $4.2 Million In Series A Funding
October 09, 2015

Mobile point-of-sale technology maker CardFlight has announced $4.2 million in new Series A funding. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...

Merchant Innovation
The Week In (Other) Apple News
October 09, 2015

High expectations almost always create an unwinnable situation for those that draw them. Miss the target, even if just a by a little bit, and everyone talks about your failure. Meet or exceed them, and you’ve only given the people what they thought they were...

The Future Of Consumer Authentication (And It’s A Little Weird)
October 09, 2015

There’s a very good reason that passwords are dying and why many think we should be ready to let them go. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

Merchant Innovation
Phoning In In-Store Customer Service Calls
October 08, 2015

One of the things people tend to forget when new technologies disrupt long-settled industries is that ground-breaking devices or strategies take time to grow. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Loyalty & Rewards
Coalition Loyalty — The Hospitality Edition
October 08, 2015

The 1859 management group had a loyalty problem — or more specifically they knew they had a problem rewarding loyalty. It wasn’t that guests didn’t like their hotels — quite the opposite. Their luxury and historical properties throughout Texas, Kentucky and Colorado were all very popular...

Controversial
Trending Topics
October 08, 2015

In retail it is always more or less raining data. With hundreds of millions of consumers, millions of stores, hundreds of thousands of miles of infrastructure and an ever-accelerating proliferation of products to make $4 trillion worth of buying and selling that happens each year...

Jet.com Drops Membership Fee
October 08, 2015

Hmmmm, less than three months out there for mass public consumption and it seems the widely ballyhooed Jet.com has decided to make a pretty big change. It is dropping the $50 membership fee. Curious since, until this moment, those memberships were intended to be the...

Amazon
Amazon Handmade Marketplace Launched Overnight
October 08, 2015

The ongoing battle between Amazon and Etsy rages on. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form,...

Merchant Innovation
Fixing Retail’s $118B Mistake
October 08, 2015

Falsely declining the transactions of online consumers is a move merchants just can’t afford to keep making: last year alone, nearly $118 billion was left on the table due to false declines. In an exclusive digital discussion, Andy Freedman, Chief Marketing Officer at Riskified, explained...