With the Oct. 1 EMV liability shift just six months away, banks and payment-card brands are beginning to get nervous about the slow uptake of EMV point-of-sale systems by smaller businesses. Part of the problem is complexity — small merchants don’t have IT departments, and...
Sales tax is a minor annoyance to most consumers who have to remember to do the mental math when calculating the total cost of their purchases. But that headache can turn into an expensive nightmare for business owners. Sales tax is taken on every...
How do you turn avid fans of a brand into avid customers of their mobile commerce solution? By delivering a valuable experience that has payments baked into it, says CARDFREE CEO Jon Squire. MPD CEO Karen Webster recently caught up with Jon Squire to understand...
Mobile point-of-sale startup ShopKeep has acquired its payment processing partner Payment Revolution, and will integrate both the technology and the people into its own operation, TechCrunch reported on Wednesday (March 25). Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Payment Revolution CEO Etie Hertz will...
German mobile-ordering and payment app Opentabs has added PayPal to its options for restaurant and bar payment, Mobile Commerce Daily reported. Customers who previously had to use a credit or debit card to pay with the app can now use PayPal at participating restaurants, including...
EMV-ready payment gateway provider Creditcall today announced that it has been chosen by Dutch contactless payment terminal provider Payter to enable the rollout of its new P6 series of contactless payment terminals. The P6 contactless payment terminal family will be used in unattended markets like...
According to reports on kapron ASIA, it seems as though Apple and China Union Pay have finally struck a deal that had only existed in rumors until now, meaning that the Chinese version of Apple Pay could be set to roll in April. According to...
While the Code of Hammurabi is best known for the “eye for an eye” proclamation, it also deserves credit for being the first recorded instance in history where money was formally recognized as a tool of civil society. While less eye-catching than the retributive justice part,...
PayPal Here has finally landed on Microsoft’s Surface. The payments giant’s card-swipe device is now available with an app that runs under Windows 8.1 and a suite of small-business management software, the companies said on Wednesday (March 18). The Windows version, which the two companies...
