Serving food and drinks to 200 passengers at 37,000 feet in the air used to mean balancing snack boxes in one hand and manual, paper-based sales reconciliations in the other. In the January mPOS Tracker, PYMNTS caught up with Eswee Vorster, head of IT and...
With the global mobile point of sale (mPOS) market projected to experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.8% from 2017 to 2026, many solution providers are looking to use partnerships as a boost to snag a bigger share of the growing market. Around...
It’s the season of giving, and that means many consumers are in the spirit to donate to a good cause — without worrying about card fraud. By using mPOS devices, nonprofit orgs can improve payments security, while enabling smooth processing and eliminating long fundraising event...
The holiday shopping season is here — and to capture profits, retailers need to ensure that customers’ payment experiences are as smooth as possible. That means adopting solutions like mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) to avoid the long checkout lines that discourage all but the most diehard shoppers....
When it comes to managing Black Friday crowds, it’s all about getting customers checked out quickly. That’s prompting some retailers, including Gap Inc., to customize its own mPOS solution. In the latest PYMNTS mPOS Tracker, James Thordsen, Gap’s head of product management, discusses how the...
With Black Friday and the holiday season fast approaching, retailers are preparing for the expected deluge of customers. For these merchants, getting into the holiday spirit often means working to remove pain points that slow down checkout lines and getting customers hard-to-find or out-of-stock items...
Before 2009, when Square launched in the U.S., the world of payments wasn’t terribly friendly terrain for small and micro-businesses looking to accept credit cards. The process was convoluted, and the outcome was generally expensive for the merchant. That, as myPOS Executive Director of Strategy Irfan Rasmally told Karen...
Smartphones make it easy for small merchants to accept card payments, but safety can be an issue. If merchants could securely accept PINs via mobile apps, they could replace weak, signature-based verification with more robust PIN-based verification. According to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard’s...
It may not be much of a surprise to see a store clerk accept payment via smartphone, but recently, mPOS solutions are seeing increased implementation, beyond their traditional use by brick-and-mortar businesses. The flexibility, portability and business management features have seemingly made mPOS solutions attractive...
