There can hardly be anyone in the UK who doesn't use a Chip and PIN machine on a regular basis. Any time you pop into your nearest shop and pay with a credit or debit card by giving your PIN code (personal identification number) to authorise the transaction you use [...]
iZettle is helping lots of small businesses grow. We interviewed Emma Cornes, an aspiring businesswoman and a creative bag designer, about how the iZettle has helped her business in practice. Her story is an inspiration for those considering starting up a business. Read our full interview with Emma below. Tell [...]
Mobile credit card readers that connect to a smartphone or a tablet are profoundly changing the way anyone with a business can take credit card payments. This means that the size of your business is no longer an issue and everyone can take credit card payments. Thanks to this new [...]
Numerous iZettle reviews have mentioned the long list of positive benefits of the iZettle chip & PIN system for accepting credit and debit card payments, which is rapidly transforming the business landscape. However, one subject that continually causes confusion and is the source of some negative iZettle review comments and [...]
Two recent reports on the cost to the economy of late payments and the inability to take payments by card have again shown the potential as well as the need for low-cost and flexible mobile point of sale devices, such as those offered by iZettle, Payleven and SumUp. This analysis [...]
iZettle and other Point of Sale Applications: Helping UK Entrepreneurship The ever changing face of technology is giving a helping hand to the thousands of people in the UK who have discovered their entrepreneurial spirit and decided to set up their own business. Increasing entrepreneurship is also a key goal [...]
South and Central America will see a huge growth in the use of mobile phones as a means to provide access to banking services, person to person payments and remittances. This part of the world is hugely under-served by banks and it is here that mobile phone payments can make [...]
The growth in these areas of mobile payments is set to increase in line with the number of smartphone sales around the world. According to the latest research from Gartner, published on 14 February 2012, total smartphone sales in 2011 reached 472 million units and accounted for 31 per cent [...]
Recent research by I.E. Market Research shows that mobile phone payments were worth 31.5 billion dollars in 2010, a slight decrease on 2009, due to the effects of the recession. This company predicts, however, that global mobile phone payments will continue to rise and be worth around 950 billion USD [...]
There are approximately 5,082,665,820 mobile phones in use around the world today. Mobile phone ownership around the world is clearly highlighted in the pie chart below. We, have, however, also broken down mobile phone use by region for those countries for which data on mobile phone ownership is available.