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Mobile payments from Square take aim at traditional registers

05/16/201305/15/2013 Jorge Gonzalez

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A new hardware has just been released by the company today to help to step further into stores. The Square Register, a mobile payments service, has now been joined by a whole new piece of hardware from the company, which should help it to provide a more stable base. The new product has been called the Square Stand and gives the iPad based register a base to stand on. Beyond that, the mobile payments hardware provides the register with an encrypted card reader. The purpose of adding this new piece…

Mobile payments service launched by Sionic for national retailers

04/01/201303/29/2013 Jesse Collins

The system has been compared to what is currently available at Starbucks for purchase transactions and loyalty rewards. Sionic has just announced that its Sionic Ion Rewards app will now allow consumers to be able to make mobile payments for purchases in a way that is comparable to the successful method used by Starbucks. The massive coffee chain uses its smartphone app and prepaid cards to allow consumers to buy. The café’s shops receive approximately 3 million mobile payments every week, according to its own statistics. It has predicted that…

Mobile payments from Square slowing down at Starbucks

03/28/201303/27/2013 Jorge Gonzalez

The smartphone wallet program is not growing at the same rate that it had once enjoyed. According to the latest reports that have been published, the mobile payments system from Square is starting to lose steam at the massive Starbucks coffee chain, which has always been recognized for considerable smartphone transaction successes. There appear to be some issues that are getting in the way of usage of the transactions. Among the primary reported struggles for this mobile payments program is that baristas at Starbucks are struggling to complete some of…

Mobile payments growing among Canadian small businesses

01/09/201304/13/2014 Jorge Gonzalez

These systems are increasing in popularity as smaller companies seek alternatives to traditional platforms. Mobile payment technology is starting to take off among small businesses in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, as they seek to discover alternatives to the traditional online platforms and point of sale systems. Now that there are a growing number of players in the marketplace, businesses have choice. Among the various options that are starting to make some headway in the Canadian mobile payments marketplace among small business is Square. This American startup provides merchants…

Mobile payments on ice cream trucks for high tech transaction completion

11/01/201210/31/2012 Julie Campbell

*Image credit Coolhaus.com Organic dessert food truck now has a point of sale that processes and tracks purchases on the go. An organic ice cream truck called Coolhaus, which operates in New York City, is now selling its frozen desserts in a way that takes advantage of the latest in mobile payments technologies. According to Natasha Case, one of the company’s founders, it uses a powerful POS device. Case explained that it is not only convenient and effective for processing mobile payments, but that it also allows the operator of…