The major processor Shift4 Payments Inc. is expanding its presence in the non-profit sector through a partnership with Give Lively, a fintech platform provider for that market. Shift4 said it will begin processing payments for Give Lively in 2024. In addition, Shift4 will expand payment options on Give Lively’s platform …

North American Bancard has joined a growing list of processors offering Tap to Pay on iPhone or its Android-based equivalent to merchants for contactless transactions. A big advantage of Tap to Pay on iPhone, especially for small and micro-merchants, is that it enables them to accept in-person contactless payments on …

Supporters and U.S. Senate sponsors of the Credit Card Competition Act stepped up pressure to pass the bill Wednesday with a Washington press conference featuring Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.). The legislators attacked merchants’ card-transaction costs as price gouging and said the levies make …

Square, Block Inc.’s merchant-processing unit, announced Wednesday it has partnered with e-commerce technology provider Jane Technologies Inc. to process online payments for cannabis dispensaries in Canada serviced by Jane. Square will initially begin processing for dispensaries in Ontario, Canada, through its Early Access Program. That will allow dispensaries in the …

Zebra Technologies Corp. has entered the highly competitive mobile-payments market with the introduction of Zebra Pay, a software-based, PIN entry, consumer off-the-shelf mobile payment solution for merchants. With solutions like Zebra Pay, the cardholder’s PIN is entered on an acquirer’s app running on the mobile device, while the card is …

Stripe Inc. early Monday launched a series of enhancements aimed at improving checkouts for merchants. The new features—which include one-click checkouts and a no-code A/B testing tool for businesses to evaluate how different payment methods perform—rely on pre-built user interfaces. This should allow merchants to quickly deploy the new features, …

Amazon.com late Thursday unveiled Buy with Prime cart, a new feature of the e-commerce giant’s Buy With Prime benefit intended to increase order sizes. Buy With Prime users can now place multiple items in their shopping cart, whereas they were previously limited to a single item per order, Amazon says. …

GoTab Inc., a provider of digital ordering and payment solutions for the hospitality industry, has introduced Pocket POS, a mobile point-of-sale terminal about the size of a mobile phone that enables servers to take orders, manage tabs, process payments, and communicate with hosts and hostesses, as well as kitchen staff, …

Shift4 Payments Inc. has reached an agreement to become the processor for timeshare rental and resale marketplace RedWeek.com. Under the terms of the deal, Shift4 will process RedWeek.com’s timeshare rental and membership transactions, handle direct customer billing and recurring payments, and manage chargebacks, fraud, and reporting capabilities. A competitor to …

In an expansion of its existing processing relationship with PayPal Holdings Inc., ride-sharing technology provider Uber Technologies Inc. will begin making use of PayPal’s domestic debit network routing in the United States and other markets and enable Uber drivers to receive wages directly in their PayPal and Venmo wallets. PayPal …