Square, the payment-processing unit of San Francisco-based Block Inc., has unveiled two new apps for Square Terminal. The new apps, Square for Retail and Square Appointments, enable merchants to accept payments, returns, exchanges, and inventory inquiries at the counter, on the sales floor, curbside, or by opening another checkout counter …

PayPal Holdings Inc. early Tuesday said it is making its new Zettle Terminal available to U.S. merchants generally following a rollout in Europe last year. The $199 device represents the e-commerce payments giant’s latest thrust into physical shops and restaurants and builds on technology acquired when it paid $2.2 billion …

Retailer Hollister Co. announced Share2Pay, a payment option that enables consumers to share their digital shopping bag with their purchaser, such as a parent or grandparent, to complete the purchase. Developed in-house, the service, in testing, found that customers who shared their bags placed orders at almost twice the rate of other …

U.S. retail sales, excluding automotive, increased 11% in September from September 2021, Mastercard Inc.’s latest SpendingPulse report found. E-commerce sales were up 10.7% year-over-year. The fuel and convenience sector had the highest growth, at 23.5%, last month. The luxury sector experienced a 5.2% loss against September 2021 sales.U.S. consumers plan to spend …

The SWIFT international payments network announced two tests it has completed have shown that central bank digital currencies and other tokenized assets can be handled without incident on existing processing technology.In related news, the fintech CryptoBucks said its CrytoBucks Wallet is available for download from the App Store and Google Play. The wallet allows …

The key to reducing merchant attrition is as simple, and as complicated, as making a good first impression. The right tech helps, too. One tactic that may help keep merchant attrition rates in check—especially when large and small businesses have even more choices for their credit and debit card processing …

Fiserv Inc. said its Carat operating system has added a capability for large enterprises to more readily access and analyze payments data.Mastercard Inc. said it is launching Strive USA, a small business imitative, in the United States for the first time. The goal is to support 5 million SMBs over the next five years.Also, …

Paysafe Ltd. said it will offer its payment gateway to international merchants using a payments orchestration platform from Spreedly.Payments provider Fortis said its services will be integrated with hotel property-management systems from Visual Matrix under a new agreement. Visual Matrix says more than 3,000 properties use its technology.Visa Inc. said it has processed more …

Having made a sale, independent sales organizations and merchant acquirers are loath to lose merchants to a competitor but they must contend with this turnover, called attrition, every day. POPcodes Inc., a smart point-of-sale terminal service provider, and Arcum Partners, an artificial intelligence firm, say they are working on reducing …

Aurora Payments LLC, which specializes in integrated-payments technology for small to medium-size businesses, has acquired One Payment, a Florida-based fintech payment company, for an undisclosed sum. One Payment services more than 6,000 merchants, with a focus on minority-owned small and medium-size businesses. The company processes more than $1 billion in …