Subaru Park, home of major league soccer’s Philadelphia Union, is the latest sports stadium to go entirely cashless. The team announced Thursday it was deploying more than 130 Clover point-of-sale devices from Fiserv Inc. to enable contactless purchases at concession stands and premium seating areas in the stadium. Like many professional …

The pandemic has taught ISOs many lessons—including how to get the most out of their suppliers. Leveraging sales in highly competitive retail, restaurant, commercial and other prime industry segments can be challenging, especially given the ongoing impacts of economic disruptions in effect today. As businesses struggle to regain pre-pandemic commerce …

The emergence earlier this year of a virulent new coronavirus variant “threatens to reverse the gains made in the first six months of the year” by the U.S. restaurant industry, according to data released Tuesday by the National Restaurant Association. The news comes as eateries have adopted contactless forms of …

Fiserv Inc. announced an integration between its Clover point-of-sale technology and the business-management platform Grubhub in an effort aimed at helping independent restaurants manage and fulfill online orders.Payments provider Fattmerchant Inc. said its Stax platform is working with TimeSolv, a firm-management service for law practices, to manage billing and invoicing, and process payments, …

Fiserv Inc. released Clover Station Solo, a point-of-sale service for full-service restaurants. It provides tools to manage front-of-house tasks, payments, online ordering, and employee scheduling.Cloud-based point-of-sale system provider Appetize launched Appetize+, a subscription plan that bundles software, hardware, payments, and support in a single monthly fee. It launched Appetize Payments in May.Payments provider Lightspeed POS Inc. said …

If you’re not offering contactless solutions or online ordering to your current book of business, what’s holding you back? By: Angela Carranza, Manager, Strategic Partnerships, First American Payment Systems As recently as 2018, contactless payment technology was in its infancy in the United States, with just 0.18%* of POS transactions …

Ever since the Covid pandemic set in more than a year ago, the payments industry has been abuzz with talk about its various impacts on merchant acceptance. What hasn’t received as much attention is how the pandemic has affected merchant acquiring. It turns out processors and independent sales organizations have …

Waystar, a provider of payments software for the health-care industry, announced it will buy Patientco Holdings Inc., a payments provider in the same industry. Terms were not announced, though persons familiar with the matter valued Patientco at $450 million, according to Bloomberg.Payments provider Payroc WorldAccess LLC said it has acquired DCS Holdings Group …

Legal cannabis sales have become a fast-growing market for electronic payments. Processors can credit the Covid-19 pandemic with helping move the needle. Just like their counterparts in other merchant segments, legal cannabis merchants found themselves scrambling to embrace contactless payments options in the wake of Covid-19. Over the past 16 …

Challenged in the past year, merchants are readying for major point-of-sale hardware and software upgrades to adapt to new consumer expectations. Some merchants have had to delay much-needed point-of-sale system upgrades. Others are adding them to stay afloat in the immediate moment. And still others are incorporating make-shift steps to …