Upset with the customer-service aspects of its cobranded card-issuing deal with Capital One Financial Corp., Walmart Inc. has sued the bank, The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday. Among the allegations brought by Walmart is that Capital One failed to replace lost cards or post some transactions to customers’ accounts …
Read More »Domino’s Adds Tap to Order to CarPlay In-Car App
Ordering ahead for a Domino’s pizza from your car just became a little easier for iPhone users with the release Monday of an order-ahead app for CarPlay, the in-car infotainment app from Apple Inc. The Domino’s Pizza Inc. app now enables consumers to Tap to Order or Call to Order …
Read More »Praxis Debuts Card-on-File Option And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/10/23
Payments provide Praxis Tech Ltd. has introduced a service it calls Merchant Initiated Transactions, which allows sellers to leverage a card-on-file option to initiate single-click payments on behalf of customers. GoDaddy Inc., a provider of payments and other services for small business, has released a small-business generative AI prompt library, which offers …
Read More »Kasheesh Launches a One-Time-Use Visa Card to Split In-Store Purchases
Digital-payments platform Kasheesh, which allows consumers to split purchases between debit, credit, and prepaid cards for online purchases, has introduced a one-time-use Visa card to its mobile wallet that can be used at physical stores. The feature, called Mobile Wallet Dashboard, allows users to add their Kasheesh account to their …
Read More »Stripe Recaps a Strong 2022, Though Growth Has Slowed
While Stripe Inc. did not experience what it terms the “breakneck” growth it enjoyed in 2020 and 2021, the e-commerce payments giant still processed more than $817 billion in total volume in 2022, up 26% from the previous year, the financial services and software-as-a-service company told customers in its annual …
Read More »ePayPolicy Launches PayablesConnect And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/6/23
Insurance-industry payments specialist ePayPolicy launched Payables Connect, which it says automates reconciliation, creation, and payment of due payables. Technical-standards provider Global Platform said it will offer a seminar in Brussels April 26 on security for digital wallets offering eID. MSP Recovery Inc., which offers a product called LifeWallet to help providers manage medical …
Read More »Euronet’s epay Unit Unveils ‘No-Code’ Service for Flagging Fraudulent Transactions
Payment processor Euronet Worldwide Inc. on Wednesday announced a new fraud-monitoring service called Skylight the company says will enable analysts to write rules for monitoring suspicious transactions without needing to change software coding. The cloud-based service comes from Euronet’s epay division and runs on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Amazon.com Inc.’s …
Read More »EV Charging Cash Back to PayPal Wallet And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/5/23
Participants in the new SmartCharge New York electric-vehicle charging program in the New York City area can receive cash back to their PayPal or Venmo accounts if they charge their vehicles during low-demand hours. The program is overseen by electric utilities Con Edison and Orange & Rockland, which are working with ev.energy, …
Read More »Eye On Small Businesses: PayPal Adds Apple Pay Checkout; NAB Picks Virtualitics for Data Insight
PayPal Holdings Inc. has added four new features to its payment service for small online businesses that are expected to increase conversion, reduce declines and the risk of fraud, and provide greater transparency into processing costs. PayPal’s small business customers will now be able to offer Apple Pay at checkout, …
Read More »Finix Tags New Merchant Market And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/4/23
Finix Payments Inc. released its payments service for merchants that want to use embedded payments. Its first product was geared to software platforms. The new segment provides payments processing while enabling the merchant to control their customers’ online and in-person shopping experiences. Aeropay, a cannabis industry payments provider, said it and Onfleet, …
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