Debit cards are the most widely used form of payment, while credit cards rank a distant third, a new study from J.D. Power says. Some 78% of consumers use debit cards at the point of sale, followed by cash (74%) and credit cards (66%), according to the survey. Other forms …
Read More »Consumers Are Paying Record High Out-of-Network ATM Withdrawal Fees
ATM owners are charging consumers a record high $3.15 per transaction for making out-of-network withdrawals, up slightly from $3.14 a year ago, according to Bankrate.com. The new high is also the 22nd time in the last 25 years that out-of-network fees levied by ATM owners have hit a new high. …
Read More »Grubhub Deploys Amazon’s Just Walk Out Tech on Campus
Students at Loyola University Maryland are the first to use Amazon.com Inc.’s Just Walk Out technology in a Grubhub partnership. The tech enables students, faculty, and staff to shop and walk out with their purchases billed within the app. Funding sources can be a meal plan, account balance, or credit …
Read More »Shift4 Grows Its Sports Portfolio By Signing the NHL’s St. Louis Blues
Shift4 Payments Inc. has expanded its stadium-pay domain by signing a deal with the National Hockey League’s St. Louis Blues to provide payment processing at the Enterprise Center, the team’s arena, and the adjacent Stifel Theater. Shift4 will also provide software for the Blues’ loyalty program, mobile wallet, and ordering …
Read More »Gen Zers Lead the Charge as Canadians Embrace Mobile Debit Transactions
In-store debit card payments made using mobile devices in Canada surged 53% during the 12-month period ended July 31, compared to the same period a year earlier, according to Interac Corp., Canada’s national debit network. In addition, e-commerce transactions made using a mobile device increased 17% year-over-year during the same …
Read More »TouchBistro Updates POS System And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 8/23/23
Restaurant point-of-sale provider TouchBistro launched a set of back-of-house technologies, including profit-management and kitchen display systems. Payments provider NMI released first-half 2023 results indicating the company ended the period with connections to more than 3,900 independent software vendors, sales agents, and fintechs. So far, these links have generated more than 2.3 billion transactions and …
Read More »Sephora Is the First Client for J.P. Morgan Payments’ Tap to Pay on iPhone Service
Add Sephora, a beauty retailer, to the list of merchants adopting iPhones as payment-acceptance devices in the Tap to Pay on iPhone program. J.P. Morgan Payments says Sephora is its first such retailer to adopt the contactless-payment service, which does not require special hardware to complete a transaction. Announced Tuesday, …
Read More »The U.K.’s Paysend Eyes U.S. P2P Payments Among Hispanics
Paysend Group is embarking on a campaign to make its name known among U.S. Hispanic peer-to-peer payments users with an advertising campaign and an offer of fee-free money transfers to Latin America, at least initially. Having opened a U.S. office in 2022, London-based Paysend hopes its advertising campaign, which debuts …
Read More »Contactless And Mobile Wallets Are Gaining Ground Among Debit Users, a Pulse Study Finds
Consumer affinity for in-person transactions that reduce points of contact are taking hold as contactless payments made with debit cards swelled to 16% of the U.S. card-present share last year from 8% in 2021. It’s a similar story with debit cards used with mobile wallets. Their use increased from 5% …
Read More »Presto Counts 13 QSR Franchisee Groups Using Its AI-Based Ordering System
Presto Automation Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence-based voice-ordering systems for quick service restaurants with drive-through windows, announced it now has deals with 13 QSR franchise groups that own and operate more than 500 locations nationwide. All 13 groups have committed to begin deploying Presto Voice, Presto’s Presto’s in-house, proprietary …
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