Point-of-sale

San Francisco-based tea blending company T-We Tea's revenue grew 300% after switching to Vend's cloud-based iPad point of sale system from Square Register.

On Track Innovations Ltd. has introduced a modular device it describes as a three-in-one payment solution.

Apple executives have started talking to high-end retailers to gauge their interest in a mobile payments service, the Apple news site 9to5Mac reports.

Business owners in Southeast Asia who use Bangkok Bank's payment services will be able to accept cards on the Discover Global Network, under an agreement with Discover's Diners Club International Ltd.

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.

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

Touch-screen point of sale systems make a substantial impact on a merchant’s bottom line. In fact, a POS system typically delivers 4% to 8% in operational savings, resulting in a significant improvement to a merchant’s profitability.

Card manufacturer CPI Card Group is bulking up to handle the anticipated demand for EMV-chip cards as issuers and merchants rush to meet the 2015 deadline set by the card networks.

VeriFone has to concentrate on delivering EMV technology to several different customer groups while also making sure its product offerings stay manageable, CEO Paul Galant says.

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.

U.S. banks and other companies may already be closer to EMV compliance than they realize, says Mansour Karimzadeh, managing director and chief technology officer of payment consultant and technology company SCIL.

Many card issuers think they only have two options when it comes to EMV—keep all issuance in house or outsource.

BitPay will partner with Toshiba to support Bitcoin digital currency acceptance at the physical point of sale through Toshiba's VisualTouch software.

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

Executives at processor Total System Services can't predict which of the many existing mobile payments technologies will dominate the payments landscape of the future, but they plan to aggressively go after the processing business that follows.

E-commerce has led to a rapid expansion of the options and methods of executing payments.

The payment processor Vantiv has agreed to buy Mercury Payment Systems LLC for $1.65 billion to expand its services for cloud-based payments integrated into other technology, says Vantiv president and CEO Charles Drucker.

Apple will be ready to accept Near Field Communication payments from phones in its stores, even though none of its consumer devices support NFC out of the box.

Contactless payment cards may never have had strong footing in the U.S. to begin with, but perhaps the biggest sign of the technology's downfall is JPMorgan Chase's admission that its Blink cards never quite caught on.

NCR Corp. has integrated its NCR Silver iPad point of sale system with Retail Intel, a cloud-based service provider that can pull in sales data from QuickBooks.