Point of Sale

Alternative Finances
Daily Deals, Email Named Biggest Drivers Of Impulse Spending
December 26, 2013

Released on December 19, a new study from Ryan Partnership has taken an in-depth look at 16 digital shopping tools to assess which is having the biggest impact on consumer shopping behavior and customer satisfaction heading into 2014. Perhaps most notably, the Ryan study found...

Merchant Innovation
12 Retailers Innovating With Mobile
December 09, 2013

“Mobile blurs the on and offline worlds, making it possible for everything with a physical component to have an online component … Having the ability to communicate with consumers in real time during their shopping journey is something that merchants have never been able to...

News
Report: iOS Clear Choice For Developers, But Android Has Hope
November 27, 2013

New research conducted by Artisan Mobile and released on November 27 has revealed that 77 percent of consumers will make purchases through mobile apps this holiday season. Perhaps even more importantly, 80 percent of consumers now say that they browse and buy products through smartphone...

Company Spotlight
Build Vs. Buy: The MPOS Conundrum
June 19, 2013

To build an MPOS solution, or to buy one: that is the question. As retailers and merchants look to build out their unique mobile point of sale platforms, they’re faced with no shortage of difficult questions. How can they produce a solution specific enough to...

iZettle Joins Clip In Mexican MPOS Race
June 18, 2013

Swedish social payments company and MPOS provider iZettle announced that it will now offer its iOS and Android services in the Mexican market, according to a press release. Mexican merchants are currently being served by recently launched startup Clip, but Square has not yet entered the...

Shopmium Raises $5.6 Million For Coupon Discovery App
June 04, 2013

Jun 4, 2013 French coupon advertising platform Shopmium ended its Series B funding round with $5.6 million in capital, according to TechCrunch. The money came from investors including Accel Partners, ISAI and Ventech, which added to Shopmium’s undisclosed seed funding earnings. Shopmium’s CEO said the...

Company Spotlight
ROAM, Ingenico Take On mPOS Ecosystem With New Growth Strategy
April 16, 2013

French payments terminal company Ingenico is aiming to grow its annual revenue to above $2.3 billion in 2016. Essential to this growth is mobile point of sale powerhouse ROAM. Just a few weeks ago Ingenico laid out plans during its Investor Day to accelerate its...

Commentary
eBay Makes Major Play in Social Commerce Sector with New “Project”
September 10, 2011

eBay has acquired the platform and personnel from the Gifts Project, an Israeli social commerce venture that lets groups of friends come together to purchase a particular present. “The Gifts Project has been powering eBay’s version of the concept called Group Gifts for almost a...

Commentary
Google Takes on NFC, Will They Crack the Code?
March 17, 2011

Google has signaled that it will do two things no one else in the payments ecosystem has done or even talked about: make a business case for merchants and consumers around NFC and maybe even put some real money behind it. Google has obviously made...