German-based mobile fuel station payments provider PACE Telematics has joined forces with PayPal to enable mobile payments at fuel pumps with a smartphone or, in Europe, an Apple Watch or Android smartwatch, according to a Wednesday (Dec. 22) press release. The process is quick, easy...
Closing store locations has been a near-daily occurrence during the pandemic. But when a high-flying QSR like Dunkin is in the news, it’s a bit of a surprise. The chain announced on Tuesday (July 7) that it was following through on its decision announced earlier...
As the U.S. begins procedures to tentatively reopen, the entire country has seen only a few across-the-board trends: namely, that people are filling up their gas tanks more and are still not going to schools. According to data from mobile phones, people across the nation...
Mastercard has announced a series of consumer protections aimed at protecting customers and merchants from fraud at fuel stations. The New York payments-technology giant said fraud was up 17 percent at gas pumps through the end of last year through its EMV credit card terminals that...
October 01, 2019
EMV seems to be that payments issue that just won’t go away, but not in the U.S., where at least one vital and robust sector of commerce has yet to adopt the global security standard en masse. We are talking about gas stations and convenience stores, with their EMV liability shift pushed back to Oct. […]
November 30, 2018
Hook convenience store (c-store) customers on a user-friendly mobile experience for fuel purchases, and the benefits will accumulate. That’s one of the main findings from new PYMNTS research, which found...
August 09, 2018
America, it has often been said, is a car culture. Perhaps because the first consumer automobiles rolled off Henry Ford’s assembly lines. Perhaps because, in 1956, the federal government under...
July 16, 2018
Closer than ever, the connected car is hurtling toward reality. Commerce done by the dashboard’s light, as underscored by a looming P97 partnership with a fuel retailer, can benefit retailers...
January 22, 2024
Fiserv says members of its uChoose program can now use card reward balances to buy gas. The new offering, announced by the payments FinTech Monday (Jan. 22), lets users purchase fuel at roughly 7,000 BP and Amoco stations. “Expanding our rewards redemption options to include uChoose Rewards gives our consumers different ways to save on their fuel purchases, and […]
December 22, 2021
German-based mobile fuel station payments provider PACE Telematics has joined forces with PayPal to enable mobile payments at fuel pumps with a smartphone or, in Europe, an Apple Watch or...
May 25, 2020
As the U.S. begins procedures to tentatively reopen, the entire country has seen only a few across-the-board trends: namely, that people are filling up their gas tanks more and are...
May 18, 2020
Mastercard has announced a series of consumer protections aimed at protecting customers and merchants from fraud at fuel stations. The New York payments-technology giant said fraud was up 17 percent...
