{"id":7033,"date":"2017-06-28T14:10:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2018-08-08T10:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T10:26:19","slug":"transforming-smartphones-into-unique-pos-terminals-for-micro-sized-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/transforming-smartphones-into-unique-pos-terminals-for-micro-sized-retailers\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming smartphones into unique POS terminals for micro-sized retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British company Worldpay has developed and is testing a mobile application that allows for payments to be received via smartphones which support an NFC device. These mPOS terminals were developed for small- and micro-sized retailers that are currently operating with only cash. All that is needed is to install a firmware application, and the smartphone can then accept contactless card transactions without the aid of any other equipment or software. One of the main advantages of this system is that it does not require a chip and PIN like top-end POS terminals do.<\/p>\n<p>Worldpay has announced that it plans on outfitting approximately 50 British different areas of MSME (micro -, small-, and medium enterprises) with this technology this year, such as hairdressers, small cafeteria and others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-7033 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Video: revolutionizing customer onboarding'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/video-revolutionizing-customer-onboarding\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Deloitte-Digital-Bank-\u2013-Customer-Onboarding-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-8909\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-8909'>\n\t\t\t\tVideo: revolutionizing customer onboarding\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Webinar: Real-World Use Cases for AI in Financial Services (Video: 60:28)'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/webinar-real-world-use-cases-for-ai-in-financial-services-video-6028\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/fb1f3c88-6d69-2e22-2340-12ace7ac5e0b1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-17576\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-17576'>\n\t\t\t\tWebinar: Real-World Use Cases for AI in Financial Services (Video: 60:28)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Video: 6 upcoming payment trends for 2021'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/video-6-upcoming-payment-trends-for-2021\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Top-6-Payment-Trends-For-2021-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-15589\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-15589'>\n\t\t\t\tVideo: 6 upcoming payment trends for 2021\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British company Worldpay has developed and is testing a mobile application that allows for payments to be received via smartphones which support an NFC device. These mPOS terminals were developed for small- and micro-sized retailers that are currently operating with only cash. All that is needed is to install a firmware application, and the smartphone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,10],"tags":[35,70,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7035,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions\/7035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}