Point-of-sale

June, 2021

• 18 June

  360 Payments Teams With AutoVitals to Provide a Range of Contactless Payments

  

  AutoVitals Inc., a provider of auto-repair shop management software, announced Friday it is teaming with payments processor 360 Payments to provide independent auto-repair shops a range of payment options, including text-to-pay functionality. By adding 360 Payments to its platform, AutoVitals said it will round out its digital offering to provide …
• 18 June

  ZoidPay Enters the Race to Bring Cryptocurrency Into the Mainstream of Payments

  

  For all the publicity cryptocurrencies generate, consumers and merchants are still left wondering when the digital money can be used as a medium of exchange rather than simply be seen as an investment asset.  The latest effort to answer that question comes from a 3-year-old, Romania-based company called ZoidPay, which …
• 18 June

  Atlantic-Pacific Processing Acquires Clique Payments and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/18/21

  

  Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems NV Corp. has acquired Clique Payments Inc., a provider of cloud-based software, for undisclosed terms. The deal will allow APPS to extend its integrations to include QuickBooks, FreshBooks, Xero, Sage, and other programs. The company supports more than 20 payment gateways.MoneyGram International Inc. said it has raised $97.6 million …
• 17 June

  236% Uptick in Entertainment Purchases and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/17/21

  

  Credit union service organization PSCU released its June edition of the PSCU Payments Index that found purchases made with debit cards in the entertainment category increased 236% in April over April 2020 and by 208% for credit cards.Cardtronics plc said CVS Health is enabling the ATM operator’s Allpoint network of surcharge-free ATMs at …
• 16 June

  Shopify Expands Shop Pay to Non-Shopify Merchants Selling on Facebook, Instagram, And Google

  

  Shopify Inc. is making Shop Pay, its one-click checkout engine, available to all merchants selling on Facebook, Instagram, and Google, including those that don’t use the Shopify e-commerce platform to manage their online stores. It is the first time a Shopify product has been made available to non-Shopify merchants, the …
• 16 June

  Visa Brings Its Tap to Phone Payments to U.S. Merchants in a Pilot

  

  Visa Inc. is bringing a point-of-sale payment-acceptance application that uses commercially available consumer smart phones on tour to U.S. small businesses, it announced Wednesday. Using a smart phone from ZmBizi LLC loaded with the POS app, 50 small businesses in Washington, D.C., will be able to accept payments without having …
• 16 June

  Repay Closes on BillingTree Deal and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/16/21

  

  Payments provider Repay Holdings Corp. closed on its $503-million cash-and-stock acquisition of BillingTree, an 18-year-old payments-technology provider. The deal, the largest in Repay’s history, was announced May 10.NCR Corp. said it expects to close its $2.5-billion acquisition of ATM-network specialist Cardtronics plc on June 21. The merger agreement was announced in January.Freight-payments provider PayCargo received a $125-million Series …
• 15 June

  With GoDaddy Payments, Web Impresario GoDaddy Starts Building on Its Poynt Deal

  

  The first fruits of GoDaddy Inc.’s acquisition six months ago of payments-technology provider Poynt Inc. emerged Tuesday with the announcement of GoDaddy Payments, a service aimed at unifying payments capabilities for GoDaddy’s base of e-commerce clients. To start with, GoDaddy Payments will focus on e-commerce transactions for clients using GoDaddy Websites …
• 15 June

  Kabbage Checking Debuts and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/15/21

  

  American Express Co. said its Kabbage unit now offers Kabbage Checking to U.S. small businesses. AmEx also said it now offers Kabbage Funding to small businesses with lines of credit ranging from $1,000 to $150,000.Global Payments Inc. has launched a point-of-sale application that operates on commercially-available, off-the-shelf mobile phones, reported The Paypers …
• 11 June

  Fresha Secures $100 Million in Funding and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/11/21

  

  Fresha, a platform that enables consumers to book and pay for beauty and wellness appointments, received a $100-millon Series C investment led by General Atlantic.BitPay Inc. is processing transactions allowing users to spend cryptocurrency with Shells, a provider of cloud-based virtual desktop operating systems.The city of South Haven, Mich., has launched …