Your customers don’t want to touch your credit card machine. It’s nothing personal, they don’t really want to touch anything that they don’t have to these days. Luckily for those of us that still use hand held or counter top credit card machines to either swipe or dip the chip to accept payment, contactless solutions […]
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Amidst the global pandemic, many countries are resuming the routine life and easing the lockdown. However, recent studies have shown that around half of the US population is still worried about their health and how shopping, eating, and social interaction can affect it. Therefore, many businesses and shoppers are more inclined to make contactless payments,
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A Guide To Contactless Payments What are contactless payments, and how do they work? Are they completely safe, and should you opt for the convenience of contactless payments? Over the years, technology has changed, and it has brought innovations in the way we conduct business and also in the way we many things. One of
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting stay-at-home orders across the globe and country during the past few months has led to a significant reduction in both the number of merchant services transactions and dollar sales in our country. With predictions of a global decline in GDP, there are few bright spots in the economic fallout.
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When we cast our eye across the pond and towards the rest of the world, we start to notice some very different point-of-sale (PoS) consumer behavior. In somewhere around 25 of our closest international buddies, more than 50% of all face-to-face Visa transactions are done via contactless payment. If we look over to the Australians
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With a predicted rush in 2020 for more merchants and customers to jump onto the contactless payment cards bandwagon, PSCU announced earlier this week that they are fully prepared to handle whatever will be coming their way over the following year. Having already rolled out more than half a million NFC (Near Field Communication) enabled
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Using near-field communication (NFC), a Galaxy smartphone (or even smartwatch) that supports Samsung Pay allows you to make quick and easy retail purchases. All without having to fumble around with your wallet or purse. When you launch the Samsung Pay app on your phone, you simply hold the phone above the credit card terminal and
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There are many recent advancements in merchant services and credit card processing, but one in particular that is gaining significant interest is mobile wallets. Once considered only a niche service, mobile wallets have greatly expanded and are now widely used by consumers. In fact, 24% of consumers use mobile wallets for their transactions daily. Mobile
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Sweden is known for its technological advancements and may soon become the first cashless society as 80% of all transactions involve credit card processing with many Swedes no longer carrying cash at all. Now, thousands of Swedes have taken technology one step further by implanting microchips under the skin to replace credit cards and even
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What is NFC (Near Field Communication)? Near Field Communication, commonly referred to as NFC, is a form of wireless communication used to connect smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices such as smart watches. In the payments industry it allows a user to wave their smartphone over a credit card machine to make a payment rather
American Express has officially launched American Express Go, a virtual payments solution to streamline business expenses. Express Go offers Virtual Card numbers for in-person transactions. The program is designed to be a digital solution for medium to large companies that need a more efficient way to handle business expenses for employees and temporary workers who
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7-Eleven has launched a new scan-and-go system that will be initially tested in 14 stores in Dallas. By 2019, 7-Eleven plans to expand the system to other cities to increase convenience for shoppers. New systems like this are bound to shake up the merchant services industry, not only for merchants but for their customers as
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As technology continues to involve, so too does the payment processing industry. While swiping a card at a credit card machine is still the most common way to pay for an in-person purchase, there are now seemingly endless ways to make purchases with smartphones and other forms of technology, paving the way toward a cash-free
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Mobile wallets have rapidly gained in popularity since the introduction of Apple Pay in 2014. Also known as mobile payment platforms, services like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay work by allowing you to pay for services in-person at a credit card machine or online with your smartphone without your physical card. Mobile payment
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Android Pay is no more. On January 8, Google announced that it will combine Google Wallet and Android Pay under a single brand called Google Pay. This move will merge all of the ways to send payments and make purchases with Google into a single product. Prior to this merge, Google’s payment system was a
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