Presto Automation Inc., a provider of payments technology for quick-serve restaurants, said its March-quarter revenue dropped 33% year-over-year to $4.45 million. Revenue for the year ending March 31 also fell by one-third, to $14.2 million. The company said it will wind down its pay-at-table product to concentrate on its artificial-intelligence …
Read More »Eye on Dining POS: NCR Voyix’s QR Code App; Olo Works With MenuSifu
Point-of-sale technology for the ultra-competitive restaurant market gained even more momentum Monday as several key players unveiled new solutions. The announcements were in conjunction with the annual National Restaurant Association show taking place in Chicago. Digital-commerce technology platform NCR Voyix Corp., formerly NCR Corp., introduced its Aloha Pay-At-Table technology, an …
Read More »COMMENTARY: Why Merchants Should Embrace Network Tokenization
If you know anything about the payment space these days, you know that the natives are restless. Merchants have been fed up with interchange rates for years, with no shortage of lawsuits to voice their complaints. Even after winning the right to pass on interchange costs to the consumer, merchants …
Read More »Verifone Makes Mashgin Integration and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/20/24
Point-of-sale technology provider Verifone will integrate self-checkout technology from Mashgin in its Verifone Commander system at approximately 50,000 convenience stores, said to be roughly 40% of all U.S. c-stores. Zelis, a technology provider for health care, launched its Zelis Advanced Payments Platform to handle claims payments for health insurers. The Western Union …
Read More »A Bill That Would Cut the Number of Banks Covered by Durbin Advances Out of Committee
A bill containing a provision that would raise the asset threshold for debit card issuers covered by the Durbin Amendment narrowly passed in a vote late Thursday by the House Financial Services Committee. The committee voted 24-22 in favor of advancing the bill, called the Bank Resilience and Regulatory Improvement …
Read More »Will Its Supreme Court Victory Embolden an Already Activist CFPB?
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s victory at the Supreme Court on Thursday answers for now the question of its constitutionality and may quiet the agency’s critics, who view it as a largely unnecessary agent of federal power operating with an overly aggressive agenda. But some payments experts fear the decision, …
Read More »MagTek Teams with KwikPOS on Handheld Device and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/17/24
Point-of-sale technology provider MagTek Inc. said it has worked with KwikPOS, a developer of POS systems for restaurants, to develop a handheld device that links to MagTek’s gateway and uses the company’s mobile card reader. Tassat Group Inc., a real-time settlement platform based on blockchain technology, announced it will work with cross-border …
Read More »Eye On Restaurants: NCR Voyix Launches a Self-Service Kiosk; Lightspeed’s Q4 earnings
Digital-commerce technology provider NCR Voyix Corp., formerly part of NCR Corp., has partnered with self-ordering software provider GRUBBRR to introduce a new ordering kiosk for restaurants. The kiosk, which integrates with NCR Voyix’s commerce platform, was developed as a response to consumers’ growing preference for self-service ordering, the company says. …
Read More »Visa Revamps its Payments Approach
Visa Inc. is taking up the notion of a digital payment identity and making it part of its product mix. Announced Wednesday at the Visa Payments Forum in San Francisco, the Visa Flexible Credential is but one of several products the payments network formally debuted, including broader tap-to-pay capabilities, a …
Read More »Supreme Court Upholds CFPB Funding and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 5/16/24
The U.S. Supreme Court early Thursday upheld the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by a 7-2 vote, reversing an October 2022 ruling by a federal appeals court in New Orleans that had held the means by which the bureau is funded violates the U.S. Constitution. The CFPB, created in 2008, receives its …
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