7-Eleven pilots mobile checkout to let customers skip the line

The convenience chain aims to make shopping even easier with features powered by tech, including geofencing, QR codes and mobile payments.

By Robert Williams • Nov. 6, 2018

Walmart drops $800M lawsuit against Synchrony Financial

While Walmart cut ties with the financial services company this summer, its Sam's Club unit is set to expand a partnership for store-branded credit cards.

By Corinne Ruff • Updated Jan. 24, 2019

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Amazon, Western Union partner on global payments

The e-commerce giant aims to allow global shoppers to pay for their purchase in-person and in their own currencies.

By Dan O'Shea • Nov. 4, 2018

Visa, Hudson Yards partner to showcase contactless cards

The credit card company has been looking to light a fire under contactless card payments in the U.S., and a new partnership with New York City's Hudson Yards project could help.

By Dan O'Shea • Nov. 1, 2018

Shopify introduces Venmo as checkout payment option

The e-commerce company embraces Venmo as a payment method as it looks to reach young, mobile shoppers.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 26, 2018

Indochino offers installment plans, faster delivery

The menswear company is cutting its previous delivery guarantee by one week, with the aim of enhancing the customer experience.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 25, 2018

Mastercard unveils new card security push

The financial company aims to have all its cards ready to support digital token-based security by 2020, the latest in a major push by traditional credit card networks to increase sector-wide support for tokenization. 

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 22, 2018

Half who sign up for store cards wish they hadn't

Store cards aim to boost loyalty, but steep interest rates and draconian fine print are leading to regret instead, according to CompareCards.com.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 19, 2018

Square unveils all-in-one portable payments device

The device houses a card reader, mobile payment capability, a printer and a screen showing a cash register display or a list of available products.

By Dan Alaimo • Oct. 19, 2018

AmEx, PayPal deepen ties with cross-platform features

The two companies have expanded their existing partnership to include more features that will help users of both.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 19, 2018

Visa adds payment partners to network token service

The credit card company adds more partners to its tokenization service, which could help the digital security practice spread throughout the industry.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 18, 2018

FTC: More scammers demand gift cards from stores as payments

Fraud involving gift cards like iTunes is up 270% since 2015 as scammers coerce people into using them to pay for imposter scams.

By Dan Alaimo • Oct. 18, 2018

CVS rolls out Apple Pay

The drugstore retailer is the latest onetime supporter of the CurrentC mobile wallet platform to begin accepting Apple Pay.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 15, 2018

Walmart, PayPal partner to offer in-store services

The retail giant and payment company partner to offer account deposit and withdrawal capabilities in stores via the PayPal mobile app.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 12, 2018

J.C. Penney extends credit card, financial deal with Synchrony

The partnership involves store-brand credit cards, financial services and data analytics, as well as a mobile component.

By Dan Alaimo • Oct. 11, 2018

Shopify aims to protect merchants from fraudulent chargebacks

The e-commerce platform’s new feature is intended to protect merchants at a time when the volume and cost of retail fraud have risen dramatically.

By Dan Alaimo • Oct. 10, 2018

Square opens up to installment programs

The payment company's new installment offering allows merchants to set up flexible payment programs that customers once would have found only at the biggest retailers.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 8, 2018

Skip takes aim at Amazon Go with plans for 3K stores

The mobile checkout app provider is racing Amazon Go to 3,000 stores — whether the e-commerce giant is planning to open that many or not.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 4, 2018

Rebecca Minkoff, Afterpay offer interest-free installment pay plans

The luxury brand launched a payment partnership aimed at increasing conversion and reducing shopper indecisiveness.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 4, 2018

Smart checkouts will process $45B in transactions by 2023, study says

But it could take until 2021 before at least 2,000 stores have smart checkout technology implemented, according to Juniper Research.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 2, 2018

Not your father's POS: What 2019 will bring to payments and mobility

From "payments anywhere" to mobile receipt printing, retailers are embracing new formats that enable a better customer experience, writes Brad Fick, president, Direct Source. 

By Brad Fick • Sept. 27, 2018

Overstock launches lease-to-own service

CEO Patrick Byrne touted the new service as just another payment option, like bitcoin or Paypal, but rent-to-own leases have been criticized as anti-consumer. 

By Daphne Howland • Sept. 20, 2018

Tech firms team up to expand WeChat Pay, Alipay in North America

Citcon and GK Software are hoping to attract more Chinese tourist spending to North American merchants through an app integration.

By Dan O'Shea • Sept. 13, 2018

7-Eleven rolls out Apple Pay, Google Pay to all US stores

As its tech expansion continues, 7-Eleven will soon accept mobile payments from the primary wallet apps in all 8,000 domestic stores.

By Dan Alaimo • Sept. 13, 2018

Payability releases card for marketplace sellers

The new-branded Visa card aims to give third-party sellers quicker and easier access to their payouts so they can invest in growth.

By Dan O'Shea • Sept. 11, 2018