The Case for Retiring Blind Returns
Blind returns let anyone with access send any amount to any card. With return fraud growing and AI making it cheaper to scale, here’s why the industry is moving to linked refunds.
The Outlook’s Strong for Holiday Gift Cards
Rising gift card demand creates a strategic growth opportunity for ISVs and VARs. Flexible omnichannel solutions can help merchants capture holiday spending, strengthen customer acquisition and retention, generate upfront revenue, and extend sales momentum beyond the holiday season.
7 Payment Capabilities That Separate Modern Retail POS Software from the Rest
Shoppers decide how and where they pay, and retail checkout has to keep up. From omnichannel reconciliation and SoftPOS to offline resilience and a smaller PCI footprint, here are seven payment capabilities that separate modern POS software from the platforms falling behind.
The Payment Detour: What It Really Costs Your Roadmap
For ISVs and VARs, a payment integration looks like one roadmap item and quietly becomes a standing commitment. Here’s what the payment detour really costs in engineering capacity, and how to keep payments off your critical path.
5 Signs It’s Time to Grow Your Payment Setup
Outgrowing your payment setup is a sign of success. Here are five signs it may be time to expand what your payments layer can do, with a practical next step for each.
How SoftPOS Protects Payment Security
Leading SoftPOS providers use a layered approach to security to keep cardholder data safe. It starts with Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance specifically for contactless payment acceptance on commercial mobile devices. SoftPOS applications do not store cardholder data on the device and protect it with tokenization and encryption in use and in transit. Choosing a SoftPOS solution from a leading provider will give independent software vendors (ISVs) and value-added resellers (VARs) the tools and support to offer this payment method securely.
Datacap uncap’d August Newsletter: Stay Ahead of What’s Next in Payments
uncap’d is your resource for smarter, more competitive payment strategies. Designed for current and prospective Datacap ISV partners, each issue helps you expand what’s possible within your payments roadmap.
Why ISVs Should Focus on Android Development
The payments industry is moving to the Android OS from proprietary systems. Advantages of Android development include the flexibility of a secure, open platform, a familiar UI for users, and support for a wide range of hardware choices and SoftPOS support. Merchants are transitioning to Android for the ability to optimize checkout experiences with new capabilities and lower total cost of ownership for payment solutions.
Winston POS Marks U.S. Expansion Success with Datacap as Key Payments Partner
Datacap’s universal payments integration will provide Winston POS instant access to virtually all U.S. payment processors and devices from leading OEMs, enabling secure omnichannel payment acceptance across card-present and card-not-present transactions. Datacap’s processor-agnostic model gives Winston POS and its merchants the flexibility to choose the processing relationships that work best for their business, simplifying go-to-market operations and reducing friction as the platform enters the American market.
Using Payment Gateway Services to Optimize Mobile App Payments
Payment gateway services for mobile app payments include SDKs for easy integration, tokenization to protect data, payment device management, and unified reporting.