Verifone has inked a deal to provide Aldi France with 3,200 payment devices designed to accept all cashless payments including contactless and mobile wallets. Aldi France operates 900 retail locations and is a unit of Group Aldi, a leader in the global retail grocery market. With 87% of mobile phone purchases being smartphones in 2015,…
North American Bancard Holdings, (NAB) has added a new feature, called tip adjust, to select EMV-ready Ingenico and VeriFone POS terminals. This new feature addresses one of the biggest limitations of EMV for the restaurant and service industry. One of the biggest drawbacks of EMV for the restaurant and service industry has been the inability…
In Other News: TSYS (Equinox); BILLTRUST (AvidXchange); MAINSTREAM (Revel); and RIPPLE (clients). TSYS – TSYS and Equinox Payments announced the availability of a semi-integrated payments solution to help Value-Added Resellers (VARs) quickly and easily develop and release EMV-certified technology to their customers. Running on the Equinox Apollo terminal, the Voyager application is an EMV-certified solution…
Data Financial is celebrating ten years of growth with eWizPro, the company’s electronic gaming chip fill/credit and slot jackpot system for cage and count room operations. When initially introduced, eWizPro represented the first major technology leap from the manual, labor-intensive fill/credit process that many casinos have used, and still use today. Data Financial, Inc. earned…
MasterCard has now joined Visa in launching new initiatives to accelerate EMV adoption among U.S. merchants. The new EMV chip terminal testing and certification program covers acquirers and value-added resellers (VARs). More than 70% of all U.S.-issued MasterCard branded consumer credit cards are now chip cards. MasterCard operates a chip terminal testing and certification process…
Omni-channel Managed Payment Services provider, The Logic Group,reports its Solve DataShield Payments Solution is the first in the world to receive global accreditation from the PCI Council for Point-to-Point Encryption Version 2 (P2PE v2). The key benefit of P2PE v2 is its modularity. Merchants using this solution will not only gain the established benefits…
Hong Kong-based mPOS manufacturer, BBPOS, has released WisePad2 enabling the upmost flexibility for it to be used in all environments – integrated POS, semi-integrated POS or stand-alone. The new product only requires a mobile network connection. WisePad2 does not require the necessity of carrying around a second additional device such as a tablet, as required…
PowaPOS has raked-in more than $1.1 million in orders from Latin American distributors within the first month since joining SuperCom on April 18th. PowaPOS is the developer of a fully-integrated mobile and tablet-based system integrating industry-leading retail and secure payment solutions into one simplified, attractive and robust POS platform. PowaPOS expects to deliver the orders…
M-POS provider CardFlight reports more than half of merchants using its suite of mobile solutions are actively accepting EMV “chip card” transactions. Additionally, CardFlight has been certified by Global Payments to accept EMV chip card payments. This will enable merchants who process payments through Global Payments to accept EMV payments when using CardFlight’s software and…
SuiteRetail has rolled-out SuitePOS, natively supporting the standard for cloud CRM and business apps, Salesforce, to run storefronts and even a retailer’s entire business on a single platform. The SuitePOS for Salesforce solution empowers retailers to connect with and sell to customers in-store. Promotions, products and checkout processes are configured in Salesforce and can span…
A new survey reveals a mere 21% of merchants surveyed have completed an omni-channel payments program. This includes primarily large grocery and department store operators. Notable and concerning is that 46% have no plans for an omni-channel payments program within the next 12 months. The survey of nearly 100 retailers by PCM Research and ACI…
A new study found the vast majority retailers and restaurant owners recognize the critical role of their POS in the overall customer experience. The research revealed 86%, 84% and 83% say the opportunity to collect new and expanded insights on customers, operations and product, respectively, had at least moderate influence on their decisions to implement…