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Deep Dive: Contactless Payments And Touch-Free Ordering: How QSRs Are Reopening Their Storefronts

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Many eateries are thus reimagining their operations to offer guests touch-free ordering and payment experiences. The following Deep Dive explores how contactless payments and digital ordering processes are going to be vital to restaurants’ survival during the pandemic and in the future. A Cash-Free Environment.

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JCB and Worldpay from FIS Look to Enable Contactless Payments for UK Merchants

The Fintech Times

JCB International Co has extended its collaboration with global financial technology leader FIS and its merchant solutions business, Worldpay from FIS, to enable ‘JCB Contactless’ for its UK merchants – becoming the largest JCB contactless deployment in the UK to date.

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A Market Overview of Payment Terminals in the USA in 2024

Clearly Payments

Payment terminals, often referred to as point-of-sale (POS) terminals or credit card machines, are devices that enable businesses to accept electronic payments from customers. There is a difference between a payment terminal (credit card machine) and a POS.

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At The POS Of The Future, Consumers Will Pay With Sound

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Sound travels at 767 miles per hour, so if you want a faster contactless payment, audio waves aren’t a bad vehicle for it. But harnessing audio waves for payments purposes is easier said than done, because it’s not like developing an app. among other countries, have been working on audio payments for years.

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The Different Ways a Business Can Accept Credit Cards

Clearly Payments

This involves using a physical point-of-sale (POS) terminal to process card payments. How It Works The customer swipes, inserts, or taps their card on the POS device. The terminal communicates with the card issuer to approve the payment. Pros Fast and secure transactions.

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Theory Of Payments Evolution: EMV Will Get Better With Age

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If there is one universal truth in payments, it’s that the easier a process feels to consumers, the more difficult it was to implement on the back end. Such is the case with EMV — the chip that allows customers to pay with a credit card by inserting or “dipping” it into a point-of-sale (POS) card reader instead of swiping the old mag stripe.

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JCB Extends Collaboration with Worldpay from FIS for Largest Contactless Deployment in the UK

Fintech Finance

In 2023, almost 20% of Worldpay Point of Sale (POS) systems in the UK are now equipped to accept JCB contactless payments. JCB Contactless is JCB’s contactless payment system that allows customers to shop by simply holding their JCB Card or JCB-card-enabled smartphone or other devices over the store terminal.