More high hopes for mobile payments in 2016

As many retailers have likely already begun to see for themselves, the mobile payments trend has not been quite as fast-moving as most analysts expected thus far, with most consumers still using traditional transaction methods such as credit cards.

Protection moves to center of payment processing discussion

In the past year or so, health care providers have been by and large the most widely discussed entities when it comes to IT security and data breach prevention, as hackers hit this industry far more frequently in that time frame than in the past.

POS security breaches still a problem in post-EMV world

The number of breaches and instances of fraud should begin to improve as the EMV protocol takes over and fewer cards use the old, magnetic strip technology. But retailers should still be ready and vigilant about their systems and the ways they are protected.

Extremely complex POS malware identified

Now that the holiday shopping season is in full force, some cybersecurity experts are warning of a new – and nearly undetectable – piece of malware that’s potentially infecting point-of-sale systems around the country.

Driving Revenue via Point-of-Sale

A good business owner is always looking at the bottom line, trying to find new ways to drive revenue and improve their margins. As such, they tend to focus directly on what makes them money – their products or services.   However, few of these business owners ever consider their point of sale solution, through which all of their money flows – where consumers purchase said products or services.