In the roughly six decades the card networks have been powering payments at the physical and digital points of sale, it’s hard to imagine that their ubiquity wasn’t always a given. The 1.0 version of card-based payments at the physical point of sale was far more fragmented and much more merchant-centric. What...
Barclaycard and TouchBistro have teamed up for point-of-sale (POS) solutions meant to improve customers’ experience in U.K. restaurants, according to a release. TouchBistro makes iPad-based POS systems that handle restaurant orders as well as payments and administrative tasks like staffing. The new partnership integrates Barclaycard...
Stripe has announced that Stripe Terminal, a set of SDKs, APIs, and pre-certified card readers that lets users accept in-person payments, is now available all over the United States, according to a blog post by the company. “Businesses of all types are already using Stripe...
Square has two new offerings: the revamped Square Online Store and Square For Retail, introduced in an announcement by the company on Wednesday (March 20). The two products will “offer sellers the tools to have one cohesive solution to start or grow an omnichannel business,” and...
You know your stature by the enemies you make, right? That’s the old saying at least. Well, “enemy” might be too strong a term — business is not war — but Square this week found itself a target of First Data and Fiserv, two big payments...
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions has announced that it will be integrating its TCx™ 300 point-of-sale (POS) systems at all of the Massachusetts locations for grocery store chain Roche Bros. Family-owned and Massachusetts-based Roche Bros. has more than 4,800 associates in its 20 Roche Bros., Sudbury...
Bank of America Merchant Services, the payments, eCommerce and security solutions company, announced Tuesday (October 30) that it and talech, a cloud-based restaurant management software company, are teaming up to roll out a point of sale solution for the full-service restaurant and bar industries. In...
Square is dealing with fallout from its CFO’s upcoming departure, with shares in the company falling again on Thursday (October 12). The day before, Square’s CEO Jack Dorsey revealed that Sarah Friar — often described as his right-hand person — was leaving the company to become the CEO of Nextdoor. That...
myPOS announced that it will open a store in Milan, Italy this week, its fourth brick-and-mortar location in Europe. This will be the company’s first location in Italy as it works to establish its physical presence in Europe. So far this year, myPOS has opened...
