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 [...]
In the wake of the Target data breach in late 2013, which exposed the credit and debit card accounts of 70 million holiday shoppers, both investors and merchants have started searching for alternatives to upgrade outdated payments technology. Are mobile point of sale (mPOS) systems part of the solution, or do [...]
It’s now easier than ever to accept credit and debit cards in the UK. Forget costly card machines. You can now get a Chip & PIN card device – a contactless one, even – that’s able to process payments with a smartphone or tablet, via the use of a free [...]
Shaken by Target’s massive data breach, the US hurries to catch up with the world in credit card fraud prevention. Introduction of Chip & PIN technology means American businesses need to upgrade card readers by October 2015. It comes as a curious anomaly that the US, which is the number [...]
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 [...]
Payleven allows you to use a smartphone or tablet to accept card payments. No monthly fees, but what’s the catch? Read the full review here!
The Netherland's mobile payment market just got “agglomerated” in the fall of 2014, when Swedish iZettle stepped in as the fourth mobile payment service provider, joining Payleven, SumUp, and Adyen Shuttle. For small business owners, sole traders, non-profits or individuals who want to accept debit and credit cards without the [...]
Italians are a people who are strongly attached to their cash, but is that culture about to change? Convenient mobile terminals combined with new payment-related legislation might just be the catalysts that finally make card transactions the norm for small business in Italy. Cash still king in Italy - for now [...]
The United States is used to being well ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to technology and business. Innovation and a fast pace of technological advancement have been at the heart of the US business model throughout the 20th century, and is one reason for it [...]
The portable nature of the iZettle has increased demand for reliable yet equally portable iZettle receipt printers. While it is not actually a legal requirement under the UK Sales of Goods Act to provide a customer with a receipt, it is nevertheless a wise idea to provide one since a [...]