For several years, MagicCube Inc. has worked to prove that merchants can safely and speedily accept card payments with no hardware other than an off-the-shelf mobile device. Now the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has added a new wrinkle to its strategy: agreements with device vendors that make MagicCube’s iAccept the …

FreedomPay Inc. said its payments services will soon be available to Canadian merchants serviced by Moneris Solutions Corp. Moneris expects the FreedomPay integration to be available mid-year. Toronto-based Moneris, one of the largest processors in Canada based on transaction volume, says the integration will give merchants more tools and choices. …

You have to spend money to make money. That’s an old adage, and it’s true. But actually making the payments takes up a lot of people’s time. It’s critical to your business operations, but it’s not why you’re in business. That means there are opportunity costs. You have to spend …

Citcon USA LLC is partnering with Klarna AB to add Klarna’s payment services to its mobile wallet for in-store and online purchases. The move expands to Citcon merchants Klarna’s Pay in 4 buy now, pay later loans, as well as Klarna Pay in 30 and other Klarna financing products. Consumers …

Payments platforms have worked for years to find the key to winning and keeping merchants while also holding on to independent sales organizations, the agents that are key to signing up merchants. Now Netevia Group LLC thinks it’s found that key in banking. “It’s a pretty simple strategy,” says Vlad …

Mexican quick-service restaurant chain Del Taco LLC is rolling out an artificial intelligence-based voice-ordering system from Presto Automation Inc. The new system is expected to fully automate orders placed at the drive-thru window, dramatically reducing the need for drive-thru staff to take orders. Lake Forest, Calif.-based Del Taco, which has …

Toast Inc. has partnered with SoundHound AI Inc. to add voice ordering over the phone to its point-of-sale system. The addition of SoundHound’s voice-ordering software will enable restaurants using Toast’s POS system to accept voice orders over the phone and transmit the order directly to Toast’s platform. This integration, which …

Apple Inc.’s Tap to Pay on iPhone has lined up another point-of-sale system supporter. Tulip, a point-of-sale system maker for omnichannel and enterprise merchants, now supports the contactless payment technology via an integration with processor Adyen NV. Announced Tuesday, the integration means Tulip merchants can use iPhones to accept payments …

Nine days into 2023, the ongoing wave of processor consolidation rolled further with the announcement early Monday that Nuvei Corp. has agreed to acquire Atlanta-based processor Paya Holdings Inc. in a deal valued at $1.3 billion. The transaction would bring to Montreal-based Nuvei a processor with deep roots in payments …

Ordeno has become the latest player to jump into the highly competitive restaurant POS market with the launch of the Ordeno app. The company expects to differentiate its app from those of competitors by providing what it bills as a richer list of services that includes the ability to access …