Merchants are looking for ways around the issues created by the Covid-19 pandemic, and this has been especially true for restaurants. That’s creating a wide range of opportunities for merchant-service firms. On Wednesday, Square Inc. said it has added DoorDash to Square Online as a delivery option for eateries and …

We are all living digitally infused lives as a result of the pandemic, and as the promise of a vaccine suggests that this may end in the coming year, the question is: will the changes stick? One area of keen interest to retailers and the payments industry is mobile payments, …

With consumers shifting more of their transactions online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, criminals continue to target card-not-present transactions and step up their efforts to deceive consumers into giving up their account information, says Feedzai Inc.’s latest quarterly Financial Crime Report. The three leading factors contributing to the increase in …

The pandemic has forced the world—individuals and businesses alike—to reassess their approaches toward life and reevaluate daily processes. The same goes for convenience stores with a particular focus on solution-driven innovation and adaptation. They must evolve their businesses with modern technologies, such as contactless payment processing, pre-store visit staging, and …

The Strawhecker Group’s most recent analysis of 100 payment gateways found that half of them charge a monthly fee, down from 74% in 2019. That is potentially because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the report says. Other findings show that 52% of all gateways focus on retail, followed …

The Covid-19 pandemic, which is surging again in many parts of North America, has proven to be a tipping point for digital business payments, says a white paper released Monday from WEX Inc., a provider of payment technology for fleet operators and travel and health-care businesses. Of the 308 senior …

October ended on a whimper for small-business payment volumes, but whether that’s because of a new surge in Covid-19 or due to seasonality is hard to tell, experts say. CardFlight Inc., which supplies point-of-sale technology for small businesses and has been tracking their sales since the Covid-19 pandemic set in …