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ANNOUNCEMENTS SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme goes live

On Nov. 21, 2017, the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
Aisle Planner strengthens wed-tech platform Instant Credit Transfer scheme created by the European
Payments Council went live for nearly 600 payments
Building on its cloud-based wedding planning and busi- service providers from eight European countries. The
ness management platform for wedding professionals, scheme allows up to 15,000 euros to be transferred
Aisle Planner Inc. launched a new website, aisleplanner. electronically across Europe in less than 10 seconds,
com, filled with expert advice for all parties involved in 24/7, according to the EPC. The geographic scope of
weddings. Created by a team of wedding planners, the the scheme is expected to progressively expand to 34
software-as-a-service wedding suite offers online tools European countries.
for lead tracking, contracts, customer relationship man-
agement and fully integrated payment processing. "With its numerous advantages, the SCT Inst scheme
AutoGravity surpasses 1 million users fully anchors European payments in the anywhere,
anytime digital world," said Javier Santamaría, Chair of
AutoGravity Corp., creator of a fintech platform that the EPC. "Inst is the only regional initiative of this kind
enables car shoppers to buy and finance new and used in the world. The European payment community can be
cars via smartphone, recently surpassed 1 million users. proud of the work achieved to make instant euro credit
With AutoGravity's digital retail solution, car buyers transfers a reality today. I can only encourage PSPs who
can browse thousands of cars and receive up to four have not joined SCT Inst yet to do it as soon as possible."
personalized finance offers on vehicles in minutes. In
meeting increased demand for transparency in lend- Shopkick rewards travelers
ing, AutoGravity noted that as of mid-November it had Shopping rewards app Shopkick Inc. recently added
received over $1 billion in vehicle finance requests from travel rewards through new partnerships with travel
consumers this year. websites Booking.com, Hotels.com and CheapOair.com.
Bluewater Grill deploys TableSafe RAIL Shopkick users who book accommodations on their
mobile devices can earn rewards on flights, hotels, rental
Bluewater Grill, which operates seven restaurants in cars, restaurants, retail establishments and more, accord-
Southern California and Phoenix, will deploy TableSafe ing to Shopkick. "Within weeks of launching, travel has
Inc.'s RAIL pay-at-table platform for full-service restau- become a top five category in mobile shopping," said Bill
rants. "There's tremendous value in having a single guest Demas, CEO of Shopkick.
payment solution that's multi-faceted," said Bluewater
Grill co-owner Jim Ulcickas. "It does much more than Star Micronics AirPrint POS printer certified
just take payments." Housed inside a patented billfold, POS printer manufacturer Star Micronics EMEA received
the RAIL device offers self-pay, tip auto-calculate, split certification for the first Apple AirPrint POS printer, the
bill, email receipt and other features. new Star TSP654II AirPrint. It is the first 80 and 58mm
Chargeback Gurus wins Gold Stevie Award receipt and ticket POS printer on the market to be Apple
AirPrint certified, the company noted. AirPrint provides
Chargeback Gurus ecommerce chargeback and fraud wireless mobile printing for Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod
prevention solution received the 2017 Gold Stevie Award and MacBook users via various private networks.
for Company of the Year – Business Products. More than
1,500 entries were submitted in over 30 categories by Vend launches AI retail partner, Dott
organizations and individuals from across the globe. POS software developer Vend launched Dott, an artifi-
"We are honored to be recognized on the world stage cial intelligence (AI) tool for retail stores. Dott appar-
as company of the year," said Chargeback Gurus co- ently learns about retail businesses based on how they
founder and Chief Executive Officer Srii Srinivasan. use the Vend Platform, analyzing sales, product, cus-
"It's a wonderful time to be a woman in business, a tomer and inventory information in real-time "Vend is
Chargeback Guru and a Guru client." one of the only pure cloud-based retail POS platforms
Miva launches ecommerce resource center for inventory-based retailers," said Vaughan Rowsell,
founder of Vend. "Introducing Dott means the system
Miva Inc. an enterprise ecommerce platform provider, can learn things about retail and develop insights that
unveiled its Ecommerce Resource Center, a hub for haven’t been available before for small-to-medium retail
Miva's complete collection of white papers, infographics, store owners."
educational webinars and more. "Our new Ecommerce
Resource Center is your one-stop-shop for the resourc-
es you and your team need to help scale up your
ecommerce store and refine your online strategy," said
Benjamin Arp, Miva Solutions Architect.
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