Up Solutions, the cloud-based point-of-sale division of United Merchant Services Inc., has set its Up Tab restaurant POS system at zero cost for resellers, the company announced today. Separately, Harbortouch has updated its POS Sales Center iPad app with new functions. Comprising an Android-based tablet, stand, printer, card reader, and …

Jim Daly It’s been two-and-a-half years since a Visa plan marked the unofficial start of the conversion of U.S. card payments to the EMV chip card standard. Will recent data breaches speed up the conversion’s snail’s pace? While still a Congressman, current Chicago mayor and former White House chief of …

Heartland Payment Systems Inc. on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against Mercury Payment Systems LLC alleging deceptive pricing by Mercury allowed it to lure scores of merchants away from Heartland and attract prospects to Mercury that had been weighing the two companies for payment-processing services. Heartland’s suit, filed in U.S. …

For Retailers, An Unsettling Settlement Retailers and their trade groups opposed to a $5.7 billion settlement of a class-action antitrust case challenging credit card interchange are not going gentle into that good night now that U.S. District Judge John Gleeson has approved the controversial deal. Defendants in the 8-year-old litigation, …

Erik Vlugt When it comes to testing hardware and software and training staff, the chip card deadline is a lot closer than it looks. Merchants should start getting ready now. The 2015 EMV liability shift may appear to be a concern for the future; but in reality, merchants need to …

Integration of in-store, online, and mobile shopping makes for a much quicker and more convenient shopping experience. It’s what consumers are beginning to expect and demand. Too few ISOs have progressed beyond the basics of POS technology, says Rick Berry. Rick Berry is chief executive of American Bank Card Processing …

In the wake of the huge payment card data breach it confirmed Thursday, big-box retailer Target Corp. today said that so far it has received few reports of fraud resulting from the breach. The retailer also said that while hackers obtained considerable customer data on approximately 40 million credit and …

Only a few years old, digital gift cards are soaring in popularity as U.S. consumers head into the heart of the holiday shopping season. Total loads on the products will reach $1.3 billion for November and December, a nearly four-fold increase from the same two-month stretch last year, according to …

Gideon Samid • Gideon@BitMint.com Whether you like Oba- ma­care or you want it repealed, you must agree that health-care payments are a major issue in need of fixing. One-seventh of the U.S. economy is stuck with choking complexity, only highlighted by the pathetic collapse of the Obamacare Web site that, …

So far, the passes have chopped an average of 15 seconds off drive-up service times for the close to 600 customers who have registered their devices for the program. “That’s huge for us,” Stephen Baclini, president of Rawson Food Service, which operates six Wendy’s stores on the island, tells Digital …