Square talked about the value of a receipt in January at the NRF. Today, oodles of merchants and ATM deployers are convinced that receipts are the new “white space” to communicate with and up sell their customers. But which serves the purpose better - paper...
One-time social commerce now general e-commerce player Groupon has yet another established e-commerce player in its sights. The evolving online “everything” store has already dipped its toe into competing directly with Amazon with its bulk shipping program. Now it is going after a slightly different...
Going forward, merchants using the BlueSnap global payment gateway will have access to Avalara’s AvaTax capabilities. This will allow merchants to calculate the final tax amounts on international invoices from their existing workflow in an automated way. “Calculating duty and sales tax is extremely complicated,...
PYMNTS.com spoke with Square to find out if the recent announcements about Feedback and Square Order are signs for something bigger.
Several reports surfaced last week that reaffirmed what we’ve all suspected – rolling out EMV in the US is going to be a long slog that will optimistically take 5 years but more likely 10 to complete. That got MPD CEO Karen Webster to thinking,...
You can’t keep an e-commerce enthusiast out of the game for long, as Marc Lore is demonstrating as he plots his follow-up to Quidsi, the parent company of renowned internet mother’s little helper Diapers.com, and somewhat less known Soap.com. Quisdi was eventually purchases by Amazon.com, in...
In an effort to better monitor farmer subsidies and track data related to how those subsidies are used, the Nigerian government will work with Cellulant Nigeria to distribute POS terminals to its nation’s farmers.
Despite efforts to influence consumers to use electronic forms of payment, such as debit and credit cards, cash remains the top payment instrument consumers use to pay, especially for small-value transactions, according to a recent Fed report. Mobile-based payments, however, barely scratch the surface.
There’s so much data influencing the industry today that it can be hard to stay on top of everything. PYMNTS.com’s Friday Factoids are the perfect solution for innovators, entrepreneurs or observers trying to keep up with all the latest information. In today’s Fridays Factoids, you’ll...
