{"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='Milano, 21\u201322 March, EFMA SME Conference'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/milano-21-22-march-efma-sme-conference\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/efma-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-6996\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-6996'>\n\t\t\t\tMilano, 21\u201322 March, EFMA SME Conference\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='2.1 billion customers to use mobile wallets in 2019'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/2-1-billion-customers-to-use-mobile-wallets-in-2019\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/payment-background-design_1212-511-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-9533\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/payment-background-design_1212-511-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/payment-background-design_1212-511-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/payment-background-design_1212-511.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-9533'>\n\t\t\t\t2.1 billion customers to use mobile wallets in 2019\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Mutual service of Russian plastic cards \u2018The World\u2019 and Armenian \u2018ArCa\u2019 to be launched in 2017'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/mutual-service-of-russian-plastic-cards-the-world-and-armenian-arca-to-be-launched-in-2017\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/e8c338a66ef6bf5d2a0410306eaa1e3e-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-7531\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-7531'>\n\t\t\t\tMutual service of Russian plastic cards \u2018The World\u2019 and Armenian \u2018ArCa\u2019 to be launched in 2017\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}]}}