Mobile Commerce

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 …

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 …

When you’re pressed for time, there’s probably a handful of neighborhood stores where you shop regularly. You can depend on them in those hurried moments, whether it’s the small retailer that stocks your favorite items, the local coffee shop that knows just how you like your coffee, or the mobile …

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 …

In a major case whose effects could ripple widely across the payments industry, Block Inc. has sued Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc., alleging the global networks worked together to fix interchange fees paid by Block’s Square operation. Square, which processes card transactions for millions of mostly small sellers, pays interchange …

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 …

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 …

Payment processing platform CardX is making Mastercard Click to Pay available on Lightbox, its online payment form, to all existing and new card-not-present merchants on its platform. Mastercard Click to Pay stores a consumer’s payment information using an encrypted, virtual card number to enable secure online shopping. Lightbox enables consumers …

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, …

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, …