JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Chase Pay mobile-payments service has added an order-ahead feature that relies on functionality developed by LevelUp, a Boston-based mobile-payments and mobile-loyalty company. The new feature is available today for Chase Pay users at quick-service restaurants in Boston and will be usable at QSRs nationwide in “coming …

Even though payments processors have been working with application developers for years, independent software vendors (ISVs) still represent a major opportunity for acquirers and processors. It remains the case that 49% of ISVs do not integrate payments functionality into their systems, according to new research from First Annapolis Consulting, an …

Just three months after forging a landmark agreement with Visa Inc., and not quite two months after doing a similar deal with MasterCard Inc., PayPal Holdings Inc.’s top brass on Thursday indicated the agreements are already paying dividends for the San Jose, Calif.-based digital-payments company. “Our customers are now able …

“Selling boxes is an unpredictable thing,” Paul Galant, chief executive of VeriFone Systems Inc., told stock analysts Thursday afternoon. Seldom has that been truer for terminal kingpin VeriFone than now, when an unexpected slowdown in EMV adoption by small and medium-size merchants has cut into the company’s sales and hurt …

It’s back-to-school time, and that means it’s also time for college-age students and their parents to pay tuition charges. Most of the largest private, public, and community colleges accept credit cards for these charges, but a growing majority of these institutions also assess hefty so-called convenience fees to cardholders, according …

JPMorgan Chase Co.’s Chase Pay mobile wallet, probably the most ambitious bank-operated U.S. mobile-payments service, on Wednesday announced it has signed up Phillips 66 Co., which sells gasoline under the Phillips 66, Conoco, and 76 brands, and will accept Chase Pay at its pumps and in its stores. No date …

Slowly but surely, the big merchants that make up the stalled Merchant Customer Exchange LLC retailer consortium are finding their own way in mobile payments. The latest example is MCX stalwart CVS Health Corp., which on Thursday announced the launch of its CVS Pay mobile wallet. The Woonsocket, R.I.-based chain …

The shock waves generated by Visa Inc.’s new deal with PayPal Holdings Inc. reached MasterCard Inc. on Thursday, with chief executive Ajay Banga hailing the agreement while parrying questions from analysts about its possible effect on a fee MasterCard imposed in 2013 to deal with PayPal and other digital wallets that rely on …

Apple Inc. is notoriously tightlipped about how its Apple Pay mobile-payments service is doing, and the occasion of the computing giant’s quarterly earnings call late Tuesday was no exception. Still, while Apple chief executive Tim Cook said little to satisfy widespread curiosity about the wallet’s adoption and usage among consumers, …

The United States remains one of the world’s last bastions of the paper check, a situation a startup called Checkbook Inc. sees as a massive opportunity. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company has been working for the last two years on a system that it says allows businesses and individuals to use …