Appetize is introducing new technology to streamline payments for sports stadiums, entertainment venues, hospitality businesses and restaurants, the company announced in a Monday (May 17) press release. The new solution, Appetize Payments, aims to make processing payments easier for businesses while also giving consumers a...
Point of sale (POS) platform PredictSpring announced that it is partnering with beauty brand Deciem and is also planning to expand into new sectors following a strategic investment from Salesforce Ventures. Nitin Mangtani, founder and CEO of PredictSpring, said the startup is “thrilled” about the new...
Cloud point of sale and mobile checkout company Skip has teamed up with guest experience platform Paytronix Systems to beef up shopper engagement, push revenue growth and increase store traffic, Skip announced on Thursday (Feb. 27). “Today’s shoppers expect a frictionless, personalized experience, and this...
Mastercard and pan-European FinTech myPOS are teaming up to promote card payment solutions to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across Europe, Mastercard announced on Thursday (Feb. 27). The strategic partnership aims to inform more SMBs about the new tools for card acceptance that can fit...
In the roughly six decades the card networks have been powering payments at the physical and digital points of sale, it’s hard to imagine that their ubiquity wasn’t always a given. The 1.0 version of card-based payments at the physical point of sale was far more fragmented and much more merchant-centric. What...
Barclaycard and TouchBistro have teamed up for point-of-sale (POS) solutions meant to improve customers’ experience in U.K. restaurants, according to a release. TouchBistro makes iPad-based POS systems that handle restaurant orders as well as payments and administrative tasks like staffing. The new partnership integrates Barclaycard...
Stripe has announced that Stripe Terminal, a set of SDKs, APIs, and pre-certified card readers that lets users accept in-person payments, is now available all over the United States, according to a blog post by the company. “Businesses of all types are already using Stripe...
Square has two new offerings: the revamped Square Online Store and Square For Retail, introduced in an announcement by the company on Wednesday (March 20). The two products will “offer sellers the tools to have one cohesive solution to start or grow an omnichannel business,” and...
You know your stature by the enemies you make, right? That’s the old saying at least. Well, “enemy” might be too strong a term — business is not war — but Square this week found itself a target of First Data and Fiserv, two big payments...
