Summer’s here and for devoted beachgoers, there’s almost nothing that can ruin a day in the sand and surf — except maybe sunburn or a fat parking ticket. In the scorching July mPOS Tracker, Mia Brown, who heads up operations for Honk, describes how the...
Evolving legacy retail to an omni commerce reality can feel a lot like orchestrating a three-ring circus. In the June mPOS Tracker™, Jim Barnes, CEO of Enspire Commerce, tells PYMNTS how making mPOS part of the mix makes that juggling act a little less tedious....
Modern technology has given retail merchants a multitude of new tools to help run their businesses, but it’s also given them plenty of processes they need to juggle in order to find success. But perhaps some help from mPOS technology can make the juggling act...
MobileBytes, the point of sale (POS) for iPad innovators, has released its next-generation software update for online ordering. According to PointofSale.com, this latest update includes the ability to easily create specials and promotions for online orders, as well as allowing restaurateurs to automatically disable the...
While the rollout of EMV in the U.S. has worked to improve the security and authentication of card payments, the technology has become synonymous with a slower checkout process. Depending on the terminal in question, EMV transactions can take between seven to eight seconds to...
For the first time, Shopify is introducing its own payments hardware to the market with what they are calling a unique approach to the standard card reader. The new EMV-compliant device made its first public appearance at the firm’s Unite developer conference in San Francisco. Since...
Though much attention these days is given to the plight of retails in a digitizing world, in his fireside chat with Karen Webster and Innovation Project (IP) 2017, Verifone CEO Paul Galant gave IP delegates a critical retail reality check. It hasn’t suddenly gotten really hard. Retail...
Big ideas often start by solving a seemingly small problem. In the case of Square — the payments innovator that launched hundreds of mPOS imitators — the small problem was $2,000 worth of handblown glass that artisan Jim McKelvey couldn’t close the deal and sell. Not because...
PaySimple has created unique and easy-to-use point-of-sale software for service-based businesses with the Service Point of Sale (sPOS) platform. Finextra reported that PaySimple, the leading service commerce platform for business, specifically designed sPOS so businesses can sell their products and services through a simple interface...