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Merchants in Italy Can Now Process Payments Using iPhones
Point of Sale // May 29, 2024

Payment service providers Nexi, Adyen and Stripe are enabling merchants in Italy to process payments using their iPhones. Nexi already offered business owners this option through the NexiSoftPOS application, Reuters said in a Wednesday (May 29) report. However, the app only worked on Android operating...

Lightspeed CEO Points to B2B Sales as Next Engine of Small Merchant Growth
Point of Sale // May 18, 2024

Profit is the applause a business gets from its customers. So the saying, originally from business author Ken Blanchard, goes. Blanchard’s quip highlights the fact that to successfully navigate marketplace challenges and capture new opportunities, businesses increasingly need to focus on creating scalable solutions for...

Celerant and Sezzle Expand Collaboration, Add In-Store BNPL Options
Buy Now Pay Later // May 15, 2024

Celerant Technology now enables the users of its eCommerce platform to offer their customers buy now, pay later (BNPL) options when checking out in-store as well as online. The company has implemented additional integration functionalities with Sezzle to allow these options at the point of sale, in-store, Celerant said in a Wednesday (May 15) press...

Worldpay Launches Tap-to-Pay Offering for Merchants
Payment Methods // May 02, 2024

Payment facilitators (PayFacs) using Worldpay’s services can now offer their merchants tap-to-pay on iPhone. The payments technology firm said in a Thursday (May 2) press release that two of its PayFac partners — Fullsteam and Autobooks — have already launched the service, which allows merchants to use an iPhone to securely...

Interviews & Exclusives
Pipe Aims $100 Million at Embedding Working Capital Solutions Into Business Software

June 11, 2024
The most valuable solution is the one that is there when you need it. And for America’s millions of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), they mostly share one common problem: access to capital. Karen Webster sat down with Luke Voiles, CEO at Pipe, and Thomas Welch, partner at Victory Park Capital, to take a closer look at […]

Lightspeed CEO Points to B2B Sales as Next Engine of Small Merchant Growth

May 18, 2024
Profit is the applause a business gets from its customers. So the saying, originally from business author Ken Blanchard, goes. Blanchard’s quip highlights the fact that to successfully navigate marketplace...

Merchants Moving at the ‘Speed of Retail’ Must Offer Payments Choice at POS

December 05, 2023
Terry O’Neil, head of connected commerce and strategic growth for Citi Retail Services at Citi, said that connected commerce needs to move quickly. In fact, it needs to move at...

Biometrics May Be Online Retail’s Ticket to More Sales

November 24, 2023
Retailers are leveraging innovative solutions, such as biometrics, to enhance convenience, security and personalized services in their day-to-day business. Biometrics systems are gaining popularity as an authentication method for more...

Quick Reads
Merchants in Italy Can Now Process Payments Using iPhones

May 29, 2024
Payment service providers Nexi, Adyen and Stripe are enabling merchants in Italy to process payments using their iPhones. Nexi already offered business owners this option through the NexiSoftPOS application, Reuters said in a Wednesday (May 29) report. However, the app only worked on Android operating systems. The report noted that Nexi is “Europe’s biggest payments […]

Celerant and Sezzle Expand Collaboration, Add In-Store BNPL Options

May 15, 2024
Celerant Technology now enables the users of its eCommerce platform to offer their customers buy now, pay later (BNPL) options when checking out in-store as well as online. The company has implemented additional integration functionalities with Sezzle to...

Worldpay Launches Tap-to-Pay Offering for Merchants

May 02, 2024
Payment facilitators (PayFacs) using Worldpay’s services can now offer their merchants tap-to-pay on iPhone. The payments technology firm said in a Thursday (May 2) press release that two of its PayFac...

Epos Now Considers Sale of Minority Stake

May 01, 2024
British payments group Epos Now is running a private placement process to sell a minority stake in the business and bring on a strategic partner “for the next stage of...