As Amazon, Alibaba and eBay get bigger, it’s often tempting to assume that SMBs don’t stand a chance at competing. Meritus has a different point of view that starts with raising the “payments intelligence” of SMBs thru a suite of tools that ultimately help them...
Customer finance start-up Affirm has announced the release of Split Pay, a service that allows online merchants to offer installment payments to their consumers at the point of sale. By using Split Pay, shoppers can make a purchase and pay across multiple months with simple,...
British start-up App55 is trying to break into the U.S. payments industry by offering businesses everywhere one-click payments technology without having to use traditional providers like PayPal. The app allows consumers to pay using any credit or debit card from any country while using any...
About 5 billion email offers are sent out in the U.S. each day. But what if those who receive them could purchase an item or pay a bill in two simple clicks, all within the email itself? John Killoran, CEO of @Pay, has created a...
Value Retail, which operates designer malls through out Europe, says that the time where luxury brands can treat their outlet stores and “dumping grounds” for unwanted products is coming to an end. The outlet operator says that the value-conscious shopper is a serious and motivated...
SnapUp wants to make mobile shopping easier by allowing users to organize products they want from multiple locations with nothing more complicated than clicking a screen shot. The app takes over from there, recognizing the saved products in an iPhone’s camera roll, moving them into...
Will it soon be possible to directly purchase goods through Twitter? It looks as though that might be the way the e-commerce wind is blowing now that a “Buy Now,” button has been spotted on Twitter, reports Recode. During a brief period yesterday, Twitter users...
There’s no question that U.S. merchants, even the smaller ones, are moving to mobile. SMBs in particular are increasingly investing in mPOS solutions not just as card acceptance devices, but also as solutions that help to better run their businesses. When it comes to what...
History is filled with good ideas great and small that started out humbly scrawled on the back of napkins. Aaron Sorkin reportedly wrote the entire first draft of A Few Good Men on cocktail napkins, and there would be no mPos Tracker at PYMNTS were it...
