Ownit Commerce Inc. is betting the release of its new Connected Checkout service will give direct-to-consumer brands the ability to improve conversion rates by embedding Connected Checkout links anywhere they place URLs. The links enable one-tap purchase of any product. The effort is aimed at combatting shopping-cart abandonment as e-commerce …

More than half of consumers in the United States have been late paying a bill in the past 12 months, even if they pay online, but not always for reasons associated with unemployment and financial hardships. For many consumers, late bill payments are a result of friction in the bill-payment …

U.S. Bank said it will launch in the first quarter a real-time payments component to its bill service. It will use the Request for Payment tool that is part of The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC’s Real Time Payments service. The same service launched for U.S. Bank business customers in November.Cloud-software …

You don’t have to look up in the sky to spot a super app. They’re starting to pop up in consumers’ phones everywhere. Here’s why—and why that’s so important. Most consumers don’t go to bed at night pining away for a new mobile app. They don’t likely request an investment …

As mobile-wallet technology matures, marketers are starting to look at ways to reach consumers with content that stays in the wallet as permanently as a credit or debit card. The latest move in this direction emerged Wednesday with the unveiling of “Mobile Wallet as a Channel,” a service that lets …

Celero Commerce said it acquired Everest Payment Solutions. Terms were not disclosed. With Everest, Celero will serve more than 45,000 merchants that process more than $18 billion in annual card volume.Digital ordering and payments technology, which gained prominence with the pandemic, has made customers more impatient, with 64% indicating they won’t …

The hype around Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Google Pay has quieted considerably. But that doesn’t mean the three big wallets are sitting still. When the so-called Pay wallets—Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Google Pay—launched in 2014, 2015 and 2018, respectively, they did so to great fanfare. At the time, …

An ambitious payments startup clinched a big funding round on Tuesday and said its sights are now set on the U.S. market as well as other countries. London-based Payhawk Ltd. secured $112 million in a Series B round led by San Francisco-based Greenoaks, valuing the 3-year-old company at $570 million. …

One of the most prominent examples of the so-called Internet of Things is the ability to make payments from the dashboard of a car, no mobile device needed. And now a forecast has arrived indicating the number of such transactions worldwide will balloon from 87 million this year to 4.7 …

Zip Co. Ltd. launched the Zip Card, a physical card to complement its virtual card in the highly competitive buy now, pay later arena. The new card, to be issued by WebBank, a Salt Lake City-based industrial bank that works with brands like Dell Financial Services, CAN Capital, Klarna, Fingerhut, …