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Fiserv Turns Up the Heat in the Hotly Contested Restaurant POS Market

Fiserv Inc.’s Clover unit has made its latest entry in the highly competitive restaurant market with the Clover kitchen display system. The new system consolidates in-restaurant and online orders, a move some see as a growing need for restaurants as consumers return to dining out, while continuing to place online …

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Volt’s Gateway on Shopify And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/14/23

The Canada-based commerce platform Shopify announced it has added the payments gateway Volt, allowing Shopify merchants in Europe, the United Kingdom, and Brazil to process real-time account-to-account payments. In related news, payments platform Netevia announced updates to its banking-services features, including free account-to-account transfers. The free period extends until the end of the year. …

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Eye on Restaurants: New Gambits From SpotOn, Toast, And Oracle

Few retail markets have rebounded from Covid lockdowns as fast as restaurants have. And few have attracted as much attention from payments companies. No wonder. Sales at what the National Restaurant Association calls “eating and drinking places” in the United States totaled $88.1 billion in April, up 0.6% from March. …

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Mastercard Processing Woes And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/13/23

Mastercard Inc. Monday afternoon said it was looking into reports of problems with processing certain transactions on its network. Both Stripe, a major payments platform, and the U.K. bank Natwest reported issues, though Natwest said the problem had been resolved by day’s end. Prepaid card provider Paysign said it completed issuer certification with …

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Eye on E-Commerce: Online Prices Fall to a New Low; Stripe Joins the MACH Alliance

The leveling off of e-commerce activity continues as online prices, as measured by the Adobe Digital Price Index, fell 2.3% in May from a year ago. This is the ninth consecutive year-over-year decrease in online prices, Adobe Inc. says. Of the 18 categories tracked by Adobe, prices fell in 11 …

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Toast Signs Marriott Deal And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/12/23

Restaurant point-of-sale technology provider Toast Inc. has signed an agreement with Marriott International Inc. to make its Toast for Hotel Restaurants product available in the hotelier’s Select service hotels in the United States and Canada. A report from Mastercard Inc. indicates the proportion of cash-only customers in Latin America has dropped from 45% three …

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Nuvei Lands Nonprofit and Government SaaS Provider Sylogist

Sylogist Ltd., a global provider of software-as-a-service to more than 2,000 public-sector customers across the government, nonprofit, and education sectors, has selected Nuvei Corp. as its payments processor. Nuvei will provide Sylogist with payments functionality including support for mobile wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay. In addition, Nuvei …

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Six Flags’ Great Adventure Store Adopts Amazon’s Just Walk Out Technology

Amazon.com Inc.’s Just Walk Out payment technology is providing checkout-free shopping at Quick Six, a concept store at Six Flags Great Adventure, a Jackson, N.J., theme park. Announced recently, the store uses the Amazon-developed technology that requires consumers to scan a code on their cellphones that is tied to a …

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Shell Picks Vontier’s Payment Tech And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/9/23

Vontier Corp. said its Retail Solutions unit will provide cloud-based payments technology for Shell Oil Co. at more than 13,000 service stations by the end of next year. The U.S. unit of the big cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it will suspend dollar transactions as early as June 13 following word from partners they …

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Estimated Merchant Savings from CCCA? $15 Billion Annually, Says One Researcher

As proponents and adversaries wrangle over the newly resurrected Credit Card Competition Act, a market-research firm has raised by more than one-third its estimate of how much the bill could save U.S. merchants. A year ago, the firm, Atlanta-based CMS Payments Intelligence Inc., calculated the bill would result in $11 …

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