Payments

The Poynt Smart Terminal Is Like a Swiss Army Knife for Payments

The Poynt Smart Terminal is like a one-size-fits-all payments system. It has an NFC antenna, a magnetic swipe reader, a Bluetooth antenna, a QR code reader, a printer for receipts, and even an Android tablet to boot. So not matter how the future of payments pans out, you’ll be able to get your dang cup…

Now Etsy Has a Card Reader Too

Etsy just released a card reader. It works just like all of the other card readers out there, except it’s orange and only works with Etsy purchases. It is also sort of a brilliant thing for Etsy to do. People spend a lot of money buying Etsy products, and according to Etsy, 35 percent of…

Some Bank of America Customers Are Getting Double Charged With Apple Pay

A nifty new payment system is not without its quirks. A few early adopters who used Apple Pay to stock up on Halloween candy ended up getting charged two times per transaction. For now, however, it only seems to be those who used Bank of America debit cards. CNN’s Samuel Burke was one of them,…

This Supercard Wants to Replace All of Your Credit Cards and Then Some

Remember Coin, the card that promised to put all your credit cards on one handy chunk of plastic, and then suffered from substantial setbacks that may make it useless by the time it comes out? Well now it has a competitor. This is Plastc, another upcoming supercard with some seriously big promises that will be…

Canadian Startup Wants to Replace Passwords With Your Heartbeat

Passwords are almost undisputedly broke: seemingly every month, a different major online service gets hacked, along with all your credit card details (and a few celeb’s personal photos). A Canadian startup thinks it has the solution: using your heartbeat as the authentication method. Bionym’s solution relies on a dedicated wearable, which uses an ECG sensor…

Report: Amazon’s Taking Square Head-On

9to5Mac has obtained some convincing evidence that Amazon’s working on its own credit card swipers, aiming its sights at incumbent Square for payments-on-the-go. Because if you’re not going to buy from Amazon, at the very least they can handle the money. The internal Staples documents highlighted by 9to5Mac indicate that the Everything Store plans to…

Snapchat’s Thinking About Getting Into the Mobile Payment Business

It looks like Snapchat, everybody’s favorite disappearing message app, is getting ready to handle mobile payments. This week, the company filed two payments-related trademarks that seem to signal a shift in its business. But don’t get any bright ideas about Snapchat the disappearing money app. There’s probably a simpler explanation. The trademarks themselves are incredibly…

Square has given up on its payment app Square Wallet and removed it from the App Store. In its stead, Square just introduced Square Order, an app that lets you pay ahead at places like coffee shops and cafes. When god closes a door he opens a… payment app.

Stop Carrying Credit Cards With This Fob That Can Fake Them

George Costanza would love the Loop: it’s a tiny device that stores all of your credit card information, lets you pay at any terminal, and guarantees you’ll never live with the threat of your wallet exploding again. And you can buy it right now. If Loop sounds familiar, you might be thinking of Coin, the…

Google’s New Wallet Card Brings It One Step Closer to Being a Bank

Over a year after rumors first surfaced, Google has finally unveiled the Google Wallet Card, a physical debit card that you can use to spend money from your Wallet account. The Mastercard-powered piece of plastic works just like a regular debit card and is available right now. As the company explains in its announcement, the…

You Can Use Square to Give Cash to Friends Now

Friend buy you a coffee when you had no cash? Now you can pay her back on the spot with Square’s new mobile payment system, Square Cash. You can already do this with a lot of services like Venmo or PayPal, but now Square—one of the most popular and easy to use services for merchants—is…

Amazon’s New Login Service Saves You From Signing Up for Accounts

Today, Amazon launched a new feature called “Login and Pay With Amazon” that allows you to use your Amazon account as both a payment method and login credentials for third-party retailers. It’s the Amazon Payments feature that’s already available combined with the third-party login service that’s already available from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.…

OpenTable Wants to Fix the Single Most Annoying Thing About Eating Out

You just finished a delicious meal. You’re itching to move on to the next spot to get more drinks. Or you’re hoping to wrap up your meal so you can pay the sitter. Or maybe you just want to get the hell out of the restaurant just because. Whatever it is, you spend a snail’s…

Mobile Payments Are About to Become Standardized. Really Good or Really Terrible?

Mobile payments are a mess. Mostly because every single carrier is trying to set up its own payment platform and squeeze everyone else out. The Electronic Transactions Association has announced the Mobile Payments Committee, which should put some order to the chaos. The committee will have representatives from each of the four major US carriers,…

The Cash Register of the Future Wraps the iPad in Beautiful Bamboo

You can add the cash register to the list of endangered technologies that tablets and smartphones are killing off. But the iPad and Square-powered Cashbox promises to give them one last hurrah before they completely fade away. The lovely wooden enclosure includes an iPad connected to a Square reader, which makes swiping credit cards a…

New PayPal App to Send Money (and eCards) Over Facebook Is the Logical Conclusion to Impersonal Birthday Messages

PayPal’s got a new Facebook app called Send Money that’s going to make it a lot easier to send money to another person over the internet. And now even your gushing, huggy aunt can take care of your birthday in a few seconds on Facebook. The app is the first to allow peer-to-peer payments through…

Google Wallet Will Give You $10 Just For Trying It

Google Wallet, the company’s NFC solution that lets people use phones to make payments, is going on tour and offering people $10 just to try it out. It’s cool, but don’t get too crazy, the selection is pretty limited. The Google Wallet team is travelling to New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco and…

PayPal’s Signed Up a Major US Retailer For Non-NFC Payments

eBay’s CEO confirmed Tuesday they’ll be enabling customers to pay for products in a major US street store, with up to 20 national retailers adopting their payment service by 2012. How they intend to do this remains to be seen—whether they go the NFC route, or do something similar to the Pizza Express chain in…

Is Google Wallet Really the Future of Money?

If Google has its way with Google Wallet, your bank and credit cards will be obsolete. The only things you’ll need a wallet for are IDs and cash. But is Google’s vision really the future of money, here today? https://gizmodo.com/google-wallet-how-googles-going-to-eat-your-real-walle-5805879 Google Wallet is a good idea, no doubt. Is tapping your phone really that more…

Google Wallet: How Google’s Going to Eat Your Real Wallet

“Your phone will be your wallet.” That’s what Google’s promising with Google Wallet and Google Offers, which’ll combine payments and deals in one neat package. And it’s a pretty compelling little vision of the future of paying for stuff. Google Wallet isn’t really one thing, so much as a bundle things tied together in one…