POS

Cardstream And Creditcall Team Up To Power Omnichannel Processing

Cardstream and Creditcall have joined forces to free merchants and their acquirers from single-stack payment acceptance solutions. Cardstream — an independent white label payment...

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FinTech Startup Is Toppling Cash King In South Africa With mPOS

In South Africa, where cash still reigns and there are few signs of merchants and consumers moving away from paper and coin payments,...

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TSYS’ ProPay Sets Up Shop In Australia

TSYS’ merchant services company ProPay is expanding into new territory. The company announced in a press release this week that ProPay has...

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Cybersecurity Falls Short In September

Since Sept. 7, the media has been abuzz over the security breach at credit scoring company Equifax and the vast number of...

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Mobile Order Ahead

Olo CEO: The Past, Present And Future Of Mobile Order-Ahead

“I believe food is for eCommerce 2.0 what books were for eCommerce 1.0,” Olo CEO and Founder Noah Glass told Karen Webster...

Whole Foods has expanded its 365 network to Los Angeles with a new opening in the Silver Lake neighborhood.

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Whole Foods Investigates Card Breach

Whole Foods Market is the latest company that has suffered a security breach, with the national supermarket chain revealing that its customers’...

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Today In Data

Today In Data: Bypass Mobile Revamps POS

When it comes to managing sporting and special events, efficiency is everything. Concessionaires and other vendors battle large crowds, customer demands and...

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Point of Sale

Speed At The POS Is A Game Changer For Stadiums

What does it take to go from powering concessions ordering at a Minor League Baseball stadium in Texas to doing the same...

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Startup Check-In

Jewel Paymentech Puts Banks On Par With FinTechs

There’s one thing banks and FinTechs can agree on: Those old-fashioned merchant onboarding processes take way too long. But nimble FinTechs have...

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Blockchain

Blockchain For The Average Joe

Imagine shopping for a new outfit, computer or groceries and paying for the purchase with bitcoin. Yes, in a real store. Why...

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Extending Payment Terms A Competitive Edge — And A Cash Flow Burden

Extending payment terms to corporate buyers is painful. Not only does it impose a cash flow burden on the supplier, but, in...

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POS Innovation

An Appetite For Point-Of-Sale Change

Football season is here, and with it, everyone’s favorite stadium food (and least favorite stadium snack prices). According to The Cheat Sheet,...

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Alibaba Is Building A Five-Story Physical Mall

Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba is building a physical mall to meld the worlds of offline and online commerce. According to a report by...

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Quick.me: The Fundamentals Of Ethical SMB Lending

While some of the entrepreneurs we talk to at PYMNTS seem to have been almost born to solve the problem they founded a...

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International

Where In The World Is Alipay?

Where in the world is Alipay? At this point, pretty much everywhere Chinese tourists might want to go, with most of Europe...

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ShopKeep Enters Small Business Lending Market

Like its competitor Square, ShopKeep seems to be stepping closer into its business users’ back offices. On Wednesday (Aug. 29), ShopKeep announced...

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Amazon

Amazon Prime Comes To Whole Foods POS

eCommerce giant Amazon has announced its multi billion dollar acquisition of brick-and-mortar retail grocer Whole Foods Market will close next week. In...

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ResTech

What QSRs Can Learn From Stadium Concessions

Are you ready for some football? Not until you’ve got snacks and a beer in hand — a process that will cost you...

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Pay By Sound: It’s Back!

Sound travels at 767 miles per hour, so if you want a faster contactless payment, audio waves aren’t a bad vehicle for...

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Vantiv’s Cloud Payment API triPOS Cloud Now Live

Vantiv Integrated Payments — a Vantiv company and provider of payments technology and processing services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) — announced news...

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xPressTap: mPOS Without The Dongle

A payments solution that requires micromerchants to buy — and then wait for — special hardware isn’t much of a solution if...

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Mobile Payments

Payworks Partners With Alipay In Europe

Payworks, a provider of point-of-sale (POS) payment infrastructure, announced news on Thursday (Aug. 3) that its payment gateway technology will be supporting...

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

Loyalty Begets Loyalty, But Only If QSRs Give Customers The Rewards They Want

Loyalty is a two-way street — both in life and in rewards programs. Every quick-service restaurant (QSR) seems to offer its own loyalty...

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Investments

Toast Raises $101M In VC Funding; To Hire 1,000 Workers

Toast, a Boston tech startup that develops point-of-sale software for restaurants, raised $101 million in a venture capital (VC) funding round. According...

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Visa And Marqeta To Transform Global Card Issuance

If the payments landscape is marked by entrenched players partnering with smaller firms making their mark in digital payments, add one more...

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Matchmakers

Vantiv On Attracting And Keeping Developers Engaged

Developers platforms have quickly gone from being cutting edge to being something like table stakes for serious financial technology players, as Karen...

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Go Green Processing Launches POS System For Pot Industry

Go Green Processing, the payments company, announced a single integrated PoS system targeted at medical cannabis and marijuana suppliers. In a press...

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Biometric Data At Risk In POS Malware Attacks

Another day, another fraud attack. But this one is unique because, at least at first, it was believed that consumer biometric data...

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Avanti Markets Malware Attack Included Biometric Information

Avanti Markets, a micro-market provider selling snacks at businesses and boasting more than 1.6 million customers, is the latest to get hit...

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VISA

Visa’s Long-Term View On Klarna

Visa just took an equity stake in Klarna, strategic intent as a motivator. Here’s what lies behind the nascent partnership, looking toward Europe,...

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Diebold Shares Plunge On Lowered Sales Guidance

Diebold Nixdorf shares plunged 23 percent on Wednesday, hit by reduced revenue guidance that spooked investors. The ATM and financial services company...

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ResTech

Taking A Bite Out Of Smart Self-Serve Kiosk Trend

Picture this: a customer walks into a café. The barista recognizes her face and asks if she’d like the usual. No need...

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Loyalty & Rewards

FIS On Loyalty’s Role In The Age of Retail Reinvention

The physical act of shopping has been truncated by technology. Browse and shop online, pickup in-store. What’s a retailer to do when...

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Mobile Commerce

What Should Be Inside Your Mobile Wallet (Strategy)

Whereas mostly a concept only really understood by early adopter and tech enthusiasts a few years ago, these days mobile wallets have...

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Verifone and Sage Partner To Bring More Functionality To POS

Verifone and Sage recently announced a partnership to offer integrated point-of-sale (POS) and business accounting solutions on Verifone Carbon 8. In a press...

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Square UK Teams Up With Vend, TouchBistro

The U.K. is learning that it’s hip to be Square. California-based Square was founded in 2009 to enable small- and medium-sized businesses...

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Mastercard

Mastercard’s Bid To Reinvent mPOS

Say mPOS and an image of a phone and a dongle probably flash across your mind. But what if all a merchant needed...

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Payments Innovation

Verifone’s Terminal (Times Two) Reinvention

Last week Verifone and airport kiosk and IT specialists SITA announced a deal that will see Verifone payment-enable airport self-service kiosks at every airport terminal in the...

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ResTech

Uncle Maddio’s Opts For Cloud-Based Software to Help Growth

Have you heard of Uncle Maddio’s Pizza? If not, it’s only a matter of time. The Atlanta-based fast casual, create-your-own pizza restaurant...

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Internet of Things

Netclearance Introduces Smart Technology Bluetooth 5 Payment Beacon For IoT Transactions

Netclearance, provider of the world’s biggest network of smart technology Bluetooth payment terminals, unveiled the world’s first commercially available Bluetooth 5 payment...

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Fast Casual Saladworks Gets Fresh With New Locations And Restaurant Tech

Franchising veteran Paul Tripodes has loved fast casual eatery Saladworks since the very first time he ate there, and now he’s the...

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MPOS Tracker

NEW REPORT: mPOS And The Merchant Omnichannel Juggling Act

Modern technology has given retail merchants a multitude of new tools to help run their businesses, but it’s also given them plenty...

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Starbucks Suffers Payment System Outage

A payment system outage at some U.S. and Canadian Starbucks locations caused the stores to turn into cash-only businesses, with some even...

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QSR & Mobile

Turning 15 Minutes Into Big Dollars At The Bar

While an evening at a bar or a nightclub is always a fun time — until the next morning, that is — paying for...

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Retail POS Market to Reach $45B in The Next Seven Years

While the retail point-of-sale (POS) terminals market is currently sitting at $15 billion, Global Market Insights is expecting it to reach $45...

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Verifone Unveils Integrated POS Offering, Carbon 8

Finding new ways to provide a more streamlined solution is something that most every industry in today’s fast-moving society is moving toward. At...

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Consumer Finance

Bringing Financing Down To Size

Merchants and consumers alike have a host of reasons to love financing. Consumers get to purchase more or better than their cash...

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