Yes, we know what you've heard, but nope, Overstock doesn't take bitcoin as payment and never actually handles bitcoins at all. And, it's not just them. Merchants that accept bitcoin wallets don’t either. Confused? You should be. Luckily, economist David Evans isn't and after reading...
The world was a different place in 1999-cell phone use was just leaking into the mainstream, Palm Pilots were the next big thing and almost no one had ever thought about the concept of a mobile point-of-sale. Well, almost no one-as it turns out Infinite...
The restaurant industry has an interesting application for the so-called “internet of things,”- they think the data streams it creates can help to build a better point of sale. Among the small army of of technology vendors peddling their point-of-sale wares at this year’s National...
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...
