Point-of-sale

The U.S. should follow the model that worked for the U.K. in its "seamless, coordinated" transition to the EMV-chip card standard seven years ago, Auriemma Consulting Group states in a new report.

Groupon has modified its Breadcrumb POS mobile payments app to allow it to handle payments even when the wireless signal cuts out. It was no easy feat.

Shopkick now allows consumers to make purchases directly from its mobile app, which rewards consumers for visiting its merchant clients in-person.

Independent sales organizations can expect business to continue as usual with First Data Corp. despite new faces in top management at the Atlanta-based transaction processor.

TouchSuite says the cloud is the perfect place for salon owners to operate their point of sale systems.

Eat24.com has developed a new point of sale terminal and restaurant management system it intends to offer for free to help clients handle online food orders.

DeviceFidelity, which has spent years supporting hardware-based mobile payment systems with the likes of Visa and MasterCard, is reporting success in devoting more attention to the software-based aspects of its moneto wallet.

Dubbed the "Athens of America" because it's rife with colleges and universities in the area, Boston is becoming a hub for tech startups as recent grads — and even dropouts — bring fresh perspective to the payments industry.

C-Sam Inc., Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. and HyperSoft Co. Ltd. have jointly developed "Salon de Wallet," a mobile wallet for beauty salons in Japan.

The payment processor Global Payments Inc. will offer its U.S. merchant customers an iPad point of sale system from ShopKeep POS.

As EMV-chip card use spreads at the point of sale in the U.S., online merchants will have to change the way they handle payments online.

Mobile transaction technology provider C-Sam has hired former Citigroup executive Kurt Weiss as managing director of global financial institutions and mPayy founder Conrad Sheehan to be general manager of strategic initiatives.

Merchant payment and marketing company Punchey has hired Michael Sattler to be vice president of engineering and Rick Graham as director of demand generation.

With the emergence of smartphones, the next evolution in point-of-sale transaction processing has begun, fueled by devices not designed for the POS environment yet becoming increasingly popular nonetheless.

The expanding array of services offering merchants advanced encryption of sensitive payment card data is causing competition to heat up among purveyors already jockeying for dominance by touting each product's specific advantages.