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API Software Inc. has created a mobile app for independent sales organizations to help merchants tabulate the best payment services deals.

Apple's plan to introduce a new Lightning connector for headphones, potentially replacing the standard 3.5mm jack, could give mobile payment companies a major hardware headache.

Square's new Order app allows consumers to order and pay at Square merchants before arriving at a merchant's store. The process for ordering is different for each merchant, based on the level of information they provide to Square.

LevelUp has updated its mobile payment app with a feature that empowers consumers to immediately notify the company of problems they experience with its mobile payment app.

Square is releasing a new service called Square Invoices, which allows merchants and other sellers to send bills to customers.

The e-commerce payment processing provider Adyen is trying to capture more business in Asia from the growing number of merchants who want to sell to North America and other regions.

Orderbird says it is ready to migrate into new markets after adding 400 new customers for its iPad-based point of sale system in recent months and adding payments industry veterans to its supervisory board.

Payoneer, a cross-border payment provider, is exceeding its 40% predicted growth rate with nearly 100,000 applications coming in every month.

Square, which built its business on the simplicity of its plug-in payment device, is piling on services that should make banks and other companies take notice.

Square has launched Square Capital, a credit program for small business, joining a growing number of companies breaking into small-business lending.

SumUp's plan to create an end-to-end mobile payment system without reliance on third parties became a reality this week with the rollout of a chip-and-PIN mobile card reader and terminal system.

VeriFone and iPayment are partnering on a tablet-based point of sale system to provide small-business owners the types of services more commonly used by larger businesses.

The days of salesmen peddling point of sale terminals by simply pulling hardware out of a box are likely numbered.

Nordea Bank will offer iZettle's mobile card readers to its small business customers in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.

Groupon Inc. is expanding its in-store payments business with a new service that lets merchants identify customers with the company's coupons and enable them to pay for purchases using Apple Inc.'s iPad mini.

Square has added and removed many features over its few short years as it refines its mobile-pay pitch in an effort to win more merchants. Its removal of the Square Wallet app was the latest of many revisions to the company's strategy.

Square now allows merchants to refund part of a sale made through its Square Register mobile point of sale app.

The words ‘payment’ and ‘innovation’ don’t always go together, nor should they.

Square's latest flurry of features came just in time for Souvla, a new Greek sandwich shop and wine bar in San Francisco.

Square Inc. now lets its merchants get feedback from customers through a response window added to its digital receipts. Appropriately, the new service is called Square Feedback.