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CardFlight Adds 20,000 Merchants and other Digital Transactions News Briefs from 11/18/20
Point-of-sale technology provider CardFlight Inc. said more than 20,000 new merchants so far this year have installed the company’s SwipeSimple software, bringing the total to 70,000. The technology lets merchants accept mobile as well as in-store payments.Square Inc. released Square KDS, software that displays restaurant order tickets from various points of origin, including point of …
Read More »Contactless Is Gaining Favor Fast Among Consumers And Merchants, AmEx Data Show
Consumer demand is so strong that 81% of merchants surveyed by American Express Co. intend to make contactless payments a permanent option at the point of sale. Some 70% of merchants say their customers have asked for contactless payments, J.J. Kieley, vice president of the AmEx Payments Consulting Group, tells Digital …
Read More »BuyLottoNow Offers Decoupled Debit To Entice Merchants
Convenience-store operators wanting another way to accept payments for lottery games have a decoupled-debit option with the launch of the BuyLottoNow program. The program, provided by iVertical Payment Network LLC, Boca Raton, Fla., charges no fees to merchants, but charges consumers 30 cents per transaction. Consumers enroll a checking account …
Read More »Consumers Would Switch Merchants for a Contactless Payment Option, Says a Visa Survey
Contactless payments apparently have sway with U.S. consumers. Fifty-four percent of them would switch to a new store that offers contactless payments, according to a global survey by Visa Inc. measuring changes in payments habits in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. The effects of the pandemic, and the resulting …
Read More »Eye on Transit; Are Small Merchants Ready for Contactless Payments? Plus Weekly Recap
The Programs and Solutions Sales Partners and Merchants Need Now.
Given the challenging set of circumstances we are all currently facing, time is of the essence. That is why it is absolutely imperative that payments technology companies equip both Sales Partners and their merchants with the solutions, programs, and support they need to compete right now. At North American Bancard, …
Read More »Merchants Are Rebooting, So ISOs Look to Apps And Loyalty to Bring Customers Back
As businesses start to reopen, independent sales organizations and other payment providers are rolling out programs suited to the new reality faced by both proprietors and their customers. The latest example comes from VizyPay, which on Tuesday announced a service it says will help merchants attract old customers and pull …
Read More »Venmo Testing a Mobile-Payments Service for Small Merchants
Taking a page from Square Inc.’s playbook, PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Venmo peer-to-peer payments service is testing what it calls Venmo Business Profiles, a potentially revenue-generating service that enables Venmo users who are sole proprietors of small businesses to sell goods through an affiliated page visible to other Venmo users. Announced …
Read More »How the Pandemic Has Hastened Small Merchants’ Conversion to Contactless And Online Channels
Evidence continues to accumulate that the Covid-19 pandemic is not only boosting contactless and online payments, but doing so in historically short order. Some 48% of small and medium-size merchants reported in mid-June that they had observed an increase in the number of consumers either using contactless payments or asking …
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