Baseball is back, and this year, more stadiums are tapping frictionless checkout to cut labor costs while meeting fans’ demand to spend as little time out of their seats as possible. Colorado Rockies’ Coors Field is expanding its use of Amazon’s Just Walk Out frictionless checkout technology, according to a March 21...
Bidpath has launched a payments platform designed for auction payments. The new AuctionPay platform is designed to streamline merchant services for auctioneers and organizations, catering to both online and in-person payments, the provider of global online auction software said in a Friday (March 29) press release. The platform is...
Ant International and AirAsia owner Capital A Berhad are exploring ways to integrate more local payments methods and payment orchestration services into Capital A’s platform. The companies have formed a strategic partnership that also includes looking at marketing and digitization solutions for Capital A’s entire...
The lion’s share of shoppers wants merchants to let them know what installment plan options are available before the checkout process even begins, and older consumers especially demand this foreknowledge. By the Numbers For the September report “Installment Plans Becoming a Key Part of Shopper’s...
Decades after being introduced, QR codes may help super apps take shape and gain even more momentum across the globe. Quick response (QR) codes first debuted in 1994 in Japan, geared toward tracking automobile supply chains, and never quite took off in commerce. But the...
Stripe is now powering payments for retailers using Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology in Australia and Canada. With Stripe Terminal and Stripe Connect enabling in-person payments for retailers using that technology, consumers can shop and then leave the store without having to wait in line...
Berlin-based payment processor Micropayment is partnering with Tink, a payment services and data enrichment platform, to enable Europe-based merchants to offer pay-by-bank at checkout. Micropayments works with merchants across industries, including fundraising and nonprofit, digital services, gaming and entertainment, according to a Wednesday (March 20) news release. The...
Colin Mellon, chief commercial officer at Splitit, told PYMNTS that installment plans, when linked to traditional card-based payments, can offer benefits throughout the commerce ecosystem. But making inroads and competing against buy now, pay later options, he said, requires a wider embrace from acquirers — plugging...
For closed-loop systems — merchant-specific cards — split-payment options may spark both interest and momentum. Less than a year ago, PYMNTS Intelligence found that more than a quarter of consumers had store cards in hand, and private-label card originations were increasing at a high single-digit percentage point...
