Other Breaking News
In today’s CardFlash News Que: CASHSTAR (gift cards); PAYANYWHERE (NFC); AFFIRM (e-commerce); and TCH (FIS).
NAB PayAnywhere
North American Bancard says the newest version of its PayAnywhere Mobile credit card reader is now available for purchase in all U.S. Apple Stores and Apple.com.
PayAnywhere Mobile
North American Bancard will introduce the newest version of its PayAnywhere Mobile credit card reader, available exclusively in Apple Stores nationwide and www.apple.com in September.
Other Breaking News
In today’s CardFlash News Que: ACI (board); AMEX (study); CSI (China); and NAB (award).
PayAnywhere 3.0-2
PayAnywhere has unveiled PayAnywhere 3.0 for iPad and PayAnywhere Storefront 3.2. The updates include a variety of features to improve inventory management, speed up the checkout process and more.
PayAnywhere 3.0
North American Bancard introduced PayAnywhere 3.0. It will come pre-loaded on all PayAnywhere Storefront tablets.
NAB + EPX
MI-based North American Bancard (NAB) has swallowed up Electronic Payment Exchange (EPX) for an disclosed amount. NAB is among the nation’s top payment services companies and the leading provider of the PayAnywhere suite of mobile point of sale solutions. EPX is a global, full-service credit card, debit card, stored value, and electronic check payment transaction processor.
PayAnywhere Storefront Offered Free
PayAnywhere® announced PayAnywhere Storefront, its first ever free touchscreen tablet and stand with built-in credit card reader at the ETA TRANSACT conference in Las Vegas. PayAnywhere Storefront provides new simple pricing, industry-leading security protection and advanced business analytics not previously available to merchants in one mobile payments solution. PayAnywhere Storefront offers a simple pricing model starting at 1.69 percent for swiped credit card transactions, including American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Discover and PayPal all with next-day funding.
RoamPay mPOS Tracker Studies Merchant POS Priorities
mPOS Tracker research highlights mPOS continues to expand internationally, particularly in emerging markets; is the number one priority for merchants ranking even higher than security; and receipts have the potential to become an important marketing channel for merchants. Conclusions show for the first time, mPOS and mobile solutions are viewed by merchants as their number one key priority. Also mPOS merchants have had their silver bullet all along. Sales artifacts were once thought of as only a required part of the transaction, but have now become important communication “canvases” to be used by merchants as important channels to the customer. And mPOS land grab focused on bringing customers to merchants. Amazon’s acquisition of GoPago could ignite SMB mPOS by handing small merchants not only a POS solution but one that supports its Pay with Amazon plug in, allowing them to serve 230 million+ consumers right from the start.
PayAnywhere Now Accepts PayPal Payments
PayAnywhere announced they have teamed with Discover Financial Services, a direct banking and payment services company with one of the most recognized brands in U.S. financial services, to offer PayAnywhere merchants the ability to accept PayPal at the point of sale. This means that PayAnywhere merchants will be able to accept PayPal and will be able to tap into PayPal’s rapidly growing customer base that has swelled to more than 55 million active customers in the U.S., more and more of whom are using the PayPal payment card.
PayAnywhere Enhances mPOS App for Android
PayAnywhere mPOS solutions made available its PayAnywhere 2.0 solution for Android and its “PayAnywhere Inside” online merchant portal. The app works with the free PayAnywhere mobile credit card reader, which plugs into the audio jack of a supported Android device, giving merchants a safe and simple way to accept credit and debit card payments directly from their Android phone or tablet. With the lowest rates in the industry – just 2.69% per swiped transaction, regardless of card type (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express), and next day funding for merchants’ transactions, PayAnywhere is the payment industry’s preeminent business-grade, “pay-as-you-go” mPOS solution. Advancements to the improved solution include a simple sign on, a more dynamic user interface, cross-platform syncing and upgraded reporting.
Goodsmiths Deploys PayAnywhere API for mCommerce
PayAnywhere mobile POS was selected by Goodsmiths to power mobile payment capabilities for Goodsmiths’ popular Swipe mobile app. The PayAnywhere API offers an easy way for mobile app developers to add mobile payment capabilities to their new or existing mobile apps. The Goodsmiths Swipe app empowers shop owners to take their online shops to market. Swipe is the only app that syncs shop owners’ handmade shops with their mobile device. With Swipe, shop owners can easily track sales and inventory from their Goodsmiths shop at shows and markets, accept mobile credit and debit card payments on the go, enter deal prices and add new items on the fly, and benefit from advanced business intelligence based on detailed, real-time sales reports. Additional Swipe features include secure encrypted transactions, no transaction fees for the first 30 days and a low 2.69% transaction fee after that for all swiped cards (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express), no Goodsmiths transaction fees, the ability to enter cash purchases, and 24/7 customer support.