Zettle news and trends

PayPal Opens iPhone Tap to Pay for Venmo Business Users
Mobile Payments // March 07, 2024

PayPal has expanded its Tap to Pay on iPhone offering in the U.S. The company said in a Thursday (March 7) press release that the service is now available for all U.S. Venmo business profile and PayPal Zettle users, letting them accept contactless card and digital wallet payments on their iPhones with...

Today in the Connected Economy: Google, Coinbase Partner on Web3
Connected Economy // October 11, 2022

Today in the connected economy, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase taps Google Cloud for a project designed to better serve Web3 developers. Plus, Grubhub launches a massive expansion of its robot food delivery project, while PayPal rolls out its PayPal Zettle Terminal mobile point-of-sale (POS) solution for...

SoftPOS Drives EU Merchants’ Adoption of Contactless Payments
POS Innovation // June 20, 2022

Merchants who want to accept contactless payments, either by card or mobile wallet, have traditionally needed card readers to do so, but a new technology, known as software point-of-sale (SoftPOS) is changing that. Contactless payment uses a method of wireless data transfer called Near Field...

UK SMEs Give Customers the Cheap, Contactless Payments They Want
Payment Methods // June 16, 2022

In the U.K., The Big Issue magazine is distributed by a network of around 1500 people who are either vulnerably housed or at risk of homelessness. The distributors are not employees but independent resellers who purchase issues for £1.50 each and sell them on for...

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PayPal Zettle US Launch Brings ‘Commerce In Box’ To SMBs

June 30, 2021
When PayPal first announced its planned acquisition of Zettle three years ago, CEO Dan Schulman touted the firm’s shared “mission, values and culture” and the emerging opportunity for PayPal to become “a global one-stop solution for omnichannel commerce” for firms of all sizes. Fast forward to today (June 30), and PayPal is pushing forward with that expanded opportunity, […]

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PayPal Opens iPhone Tap to Pay for Venmo Business Users

March 07, 2024
PayPal has expanded its Tap to Pay on iPhone offering in the U.S. The company said in a Thursday (March 7) press release that the service is now available for all U.S. Venmo business profile and PayPal Zettle users, letting them accept contactless card and digital wallet payments on their iPhones with no additional cost or hardware. “Consumers are increasingly going cashless,” […]