For SMBs, what’s in the cards … are more card readers. To that end, the banking giant J.P. Morgan is focused on enabling payments for the millions of small businesses that are the lifeblood of Main Streets across the U.S. – and, by extension, the...
The pandemic has reshaped how we interact with merchants — and what we expect, as customers, from those increasingly digital interactions. Call it the transformation of CX, shorthand for the customer experience. In an interview with PYMNTS, Mike Vaughn, senior vice president of operations...
PayPal has launched its iZettle Food & Drink app, the point of sale (POS) platform for iOS to support food and drinks service in the U.K. The app was crafted to support the hospitality industry including restaurants, cafes and pubs for a fast and easy...
Cloud point of sale and mobile checkout company Skip has teamed up with guest experience platform Paytronix Systems to beef up shopper engagement, push revenue growth and increase store traffic, Skip announced on Thursday (Feb. 27). “Today’s shoppers expect a frictionless, personalized experience, and this...
Mastercard and pan-European FinTech myPOS are teaming up to promote card payment solutions to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across Europe, Mastercard announced on Thursday (Feb. 27). The strategic partnership aims to inform more SMBs about the new tools for card acceptance that can fit...
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...
Square For Retail is now available on Square Register, allowing the retail point-of-sale (POS) solution to run on Square’s end-to-end, integrated POS system, the Silicon Valley company announced on Tuesday (Feb. 11). The integrated solution enables retailers to leverage software, hardware and payments on a single...
New Orleans, home to the PYMNTS Bureau of Temperate Winter, is loved and sometimes reviled for being behind the times on many things. That can often include payments. But over the last year or so, a wave of point-of-sale (POS) upgrades has seemingly hit many...
When Affirm launched in February 2013, the point-of-sale (POS) financing marketplace in the U.S. was largely an empty greenfield wherein PayPal Co-Founder Max Levchin set up virtual stall. The motivating idea, Levchin told PYMNTS, was pretty simple: offer an honest, transparent and data driven POS...