Top Mobile Payment Solutions without Startup Costs

The ability to process credit cards using a mobile device is gaining well-deserved attention across the credit card processing industry. Joseph Brady, an avid entrepreneur in various industries since 2006 and featured writer for BizOffice.com, recently updated business owners on the available mobile...

Setting Up Your Business to Accept Mobile Payments

Setting up your business to receive mobile payments gives you to the flexibility to take payments from your customers no matter where they are. Within the past few years, the concept of being able to buy goods and services without taking out their wallet and/or going to specific location has become very...

Merchant Buy-in Is Key to Success of Mobile Payment Growth

Aspiring mobile payment service companies should engage with retailers in determining market requirements to enable mobile phone-initiated payments and services at the retail point of sale. According to a recent survey from Sybase 365, 40% of survey respondents cited the main inhibitor of widespread mobile ...

Sage Launches New Mobile Payments Product

Sage Payment Solutions, the payments division for Sage North America, has announced the availability of Sage Mobile Payments. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant mobile payments product comes bundled with a Sage merchant account to allow SMBs to expand their payment options by accepting credit and...

CHARGE Anywhere Releases Mobile POS Payment App for Android

CHARGE Anywhere has released an updated payment application for Android smartphones. The app accepts multiple tender types–in addition to credit card payments, the CHARGE Anywhere mobile payment app can facilitate cash transactions, check transactions and ACH payments. “Merchants can increase...

Square Inc. Signing Up 30,000+ New Accounts Per Month

Jessica Guynn of the Los Angeles Times interviewed Square COO Keith Rabois about Square’s latest round of funding,  which according to some sources puts the company valuation at over $240 million. According to Rabois, the company has “been signing up 30,000 to 40,000 new accounts per month and...

Square Versus Intuit GoPayment: Mobile Payment Comparison

For business that want to accept credit card payments through their smartphones, there are quite a few choices available. Two leading contenders are Square and Intuit’s GoPayment. Both services offer this feature, but there are some differences that may sway your decision on which one is best for...

North American Bancard (NAB) Launches Pay Anywhere Mobile Payment App

North American Bancard (NAB) announced  today the  launch of its Pay Anywhere mobile payment application, which allows users to process credit card payments via mobile devices. NAB currently processes more than $10 billion in electronic transactions annually for more than 100,000 merchants...

Harnessing Mobile Commerce to Close In-Store Sales

Shoppers who have in the past turned to the Internet for their research before heading to brick-and-mortar stores are increasingly melding their online and in-store shopping with the exploding popularity of mobile applications for use on smartphones. Now shoppers can actually get instant price comparisons...

Hypercom M5000 Mobile Payment Terminal Announced

Hypercom’s new M5000 mobile payment terminal is a  hand mobile payment system with a 3.5” color icon-capable touchscreen. The device offers cutting edge mobility, communications and connectivity options available and an integrated contactless reader let merchants accept any type of card payment.  The...

HID Gobal Announces New Contactless Payment Stickers

HID Gobal announced today, the addition of a mobile sticker format to its family of contactless payment and identification cards. HID Global provides solutions for the delivery of secure identity. The new stickers make it easier to add closed-loop payment and loyalty systems to existing automatic fare...

ROAM Data Launches New Credit Card Reader for Blackberry Devices

ROAM Data has launched its audio coupled card reader for BlackBerry devices, which hold  approximately 30% of the smart phone market in the US. ROAM enables the millions of merchants with BlackBerry devices to securely swipe customers’ payment cards with ROAMpay Swipe by plugging-in ROAM’s ...

Marketing and Selling to the New Mobile Customer

Sales of smartphones have reached the tipping point, with more and more consumers doing their shopping not only online, but mobile as well. With the iPhone  and a whole new crop of smartphones on Google’s Android operating system, we’re likely to look back and see the 2010 holiday shopping...

KreditFly Launches Mobile Payment Solution Available to 300 Million U.S. Mobile Phone Customers

A new player in mobile has launched its mobile payment service today. KreditFly, a flexible mobile payment solutions is available to all 300 million mobile subscribers in the United States, allowing users to immediately use their mobile phones to complete online transactions, and choose the method of...

Intuit GoPayment Mobile Credit Card Processing

Intuit’s GoPayment mobile credit card processing solution has been around for a while, but only recently has the system included the ability to swipe a credit card and transmit that swiped data directly via mobile phone. Since partnering with Mophie, a complete solutions is now available. The Mophie...

Verifone’s Credit Card Swipe System for iPhone to be Marketed by Elavon

Elavon, a wholly-owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, will market and support VeriFone Systems, Inc.’s PAYware Mobile secure card payment system for the Apple iPhone. The solution transforms the iPhone into a mobile payment device with a card encryption sleeve that allows merchants to capture data via...

Phone-Based Authentication Sees Strong Adoption in 2010

Usage of PhoneFactor’s products offer a good insight into adoption of phone-based authentication. The company offers phone-based two-factor authentication solutions to companies worldwide–users simply respond to a phone call or SMS text message from PhoneFactor to authenticate. The company has...

VeriFone Announces PAYware Mobile Enterprise Solution

VeriFone Systems, Inc. has announced a new mobile card acceptance solution called PAYware Mobile Enterprise. The secure solution integrates with existing in-store POS systems. In addition to enabling new in-store mobile applications, it is supported by VeriFone’s PAYware Connect gateway for remote payment...