IPayment Inc., a Nashville, Tenn.-based payment processor, is reselling Roam Data Inc.’s RoamPay mobile-payment services, Roam Data says. RoamPay can be loaded onto cell phones and used to accept credit and debit card payments.
Boston-based Roam Data says an encrypted card-swipe device that plugs into a phone’s audio jack will be available June 1 for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and those devices using Google Inc.’s Android operating systems. Devices compatible with other cellphone operating systems will be available later this summer, Roam Data says.
RoamPay will be targeted at the smallest of merchants, a Roam Data spokesperson says. Currently, 49 ISOs are reselling Roam Data’s RoamPay, he notes.
Roam Data also has agreements with Atlanta-based First Data Corp., Dallas-based Chase Paymentech LLC and Palm Desert (Calif.) National Bank, among others. First Data and Chase Paymentech resell Roam Data’s services under their brand names (
Point-of-sale terminal maker Ingenico SA also is using RoamPay as a mobile-payments product and is a minority investor in Roam Data (
