If you can’t accept payments, you may as well shut up shop. As a merchant, you want your payment terminal to make things easy for you and your customers. It should be easy to operate and integrate well with your other business systems. But more than anything, it should WORK! This may not be [...]

Twenty years ago, a payment terminal was little more than a calculator with a modem attached. A reseller could drop it off in a box at the merchant and that was pretty much it. Over the years, the terminals have gained many features to make it easier for customers to pay and merchants to run [...]

Are you missing out on half a million customers? More than 90% of the nearly 450,000 Chinese who visit New Zealand every year have said they will be more inclined to spend money with vendors who offer them the opportunity to make mobile payments. Being able to use their familiar, trusted mobile payment platforms is one of [...]

More than 6% of New Zealand merchants still use dial-up for their payment terminals. The number is dwindling, but we’re likely to see it for a long time still. Earlier plans to end dial-up functionality has been put on hold, as some rural areas do not have access to ADSL or fibre-optic networks. Paymark, who [...]

Every new technology has to overcome past practice. When electronic payments started, people found comfort in handing over a card as if it were a bank note. Signing for a credit card payment is like signing a cheque and typing in your PIN is the electronic version of a signature. So of course, contactless payments [...]