Payments provider EVO Payments Inc. announced it has acquired North49 Business Solutions Inc., to enable integrated payment services for businesses using the Sage accounting system. Terms were not announced.Restaurant specialist SpotOn released a report on the impact of inflation on restaurants that found the biggest average price increase was in seafood restaurants, up 19% …
Read More »Outdoorsy Picks PayPal’s Pay in 4 and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/20/22
Outdoorsy, a company that arranges rental of recreation vehicles, said it will accept payments through PayPal Holdings Inc.’s buy now, pay later service, Pay in 4.Klarna AB initiated a three-day event called “Dream Deal Days” to observe hitting 150 million users and 400,000 merchant partners. The event, held across 19 markets around …
Read More »SpotOn Raises $300 Million in Funding and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/19/22
SpotOn, a payments-technology provider serving restaurants and retailers, raised $300 million in a Series F funding round led by Dragoneer Investment Group LLC. The round, which comes just eight months after a Series E funding, values the company at $3.6 billion.Sphere, a healthcare payments and security software company, launched a …
Read More »Orduo Launches Restaurant Ordering System and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/18/22
Technology firm Orduo has launched a white-label online ordering system for restaurants. The product is aimed at independent sales organizations and value-added resellers.NCR Corp. said its NCR Aloha Cloud point-of-sale system has a refreshed user interface, a small handheld device, and next-day funding of deposits.Routable, a business-payments platform aimed at mass payouts, launched …
Read More »Afterpay Now In-Store at Square Merchants and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/17/22
Square announced its Afterpay buy now, pay later service is available to in-person point-of-sale merchants in the United States and Australia who use Square Point of Sale, Square for Retail, Square Appointments, or Square for Restaurants. In the first quarter, Square, a unit of Block Inc., said the average transaction size with Afterpay …
Read More »Toast Renews US Foods Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/16/22
Toast Inc., a payments-technology provider specializing in restaurants, said it has renewed its collaboration with US Foods, a distributor serving approximately 250,000 U.S. restaurants and foodservice operators.Investment firm Thoma Bravo has closed on its $2.6-billion acquisition of business-to-business payments provider Bottomline Technologies Inc. The deal was announced in December and approved by …
Read More »Kickfin Enlists Visa Direct for Tip Payouts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/13/22
Kickfin, a tip disbursement provider, said its tie-in with Visa Direct, the card brand’s push payment service, will enable its clients to send cashless tip payouts directly to employees’ existing bank accounts via eligible debit cards.Buy now, pay later provider Affirm Inc. announced a multi-year extension of its agreement to provide installment-payment …
Read More »Checkout.com To Acquire ID Firm ubble and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/12/22
Payments provider Checkout.com has agreed to acquire ubble, a provider of identity-verification technology, in a transaction set to close later this year. Terms were not disclosed.The March 18 increase in the same-day limit to $1 million helped lift same-day ACH volume in the first quarter to $290.3 billion, up 53.3% year-over-year, Nacha said. Transactions …
Read More »Priority’s Revenue up 35% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/11/22
Payments provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc. reported first-quarter revenue of $153.2 million, up 35% year-over-year.PayBright said it will provide installment payments to passengers using CheapOair.ca, an online travel agency.Travel platform Agoda said it now offers interest-free credit card installment payments on its booking platform in a partnership with Visa Inc.E-commerce fraud protection provider Signifyd said it …
Read More »Paying Rent with Crypto and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/10/22
Apartment-rental platform Livly said tenants can make rent payments in cryptocurrency through the Livly Resident Mobile App. Landlords will be paid in U.S. dollars.Banking-technology provider Jack Henry & Associates said consumers and businesses will be able to access cryptocurrency trading through the company’s Banno Digital Platform. Jack Henry is partnering with NYDIG, a crypto …
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