Up until now, if you were a small business, the possibility of accepting credit card payments seemed remote with all the fees that are associated with a merchant account. Plus, you may not have a store front to plug a terminal into and wireless terminals were just out of your budget. But, earlier this week, [...]
Useful Apps: Creating a Credit Card Machine for Android
The latest buzz in the commercial trading market is the ability to process consumer credit card payments through mobile devices, like using an app to make an Android work as a credit card machine. Gone are the days when the use of mobile devices was restricted to remote wireless communication. A modern day phone can [...]
Google Wallet – What Does This Mean to Canadian Businesses?
A few days ago, Google sent out a note to their customers using Google checkout to advise that they will no longer be supporting this service. In return, they were changing their customer accounts to a Google wallet account. So what exactly does this mean and how does it affect Canadian merchants? Google checkout was [...]
M-Payments Will Be The Future of Payment Processing
There is really nothing we can do right now as Canadians with the M-Processing technologies like near field communication (NFC) and electronic-wallet (e-wallet) we are stuck with our current way of processing with regular retail debit machines. However, it is important to look into the crystal ball every once in a while. It is no [...]
Send Payments with Twitter
These days I have am watching closely mobile payments and I also have been following Twitter too. This led me to find Twitpay. Twitpay is a new way to send funds using Twitter which is a messaging system that allows people to communicate in 140 characters or less. They announced yesterday that they are “out [...]
