Jumio comes to WordPress, makes blog readers webcams in credit card readers

Jumio, a new technology that transforms your webcam in credit card readers, now offers a plugin for WordPress websites. New Jumio Netswipe-ins allows site visitors to pay for products or make donations quickly and easily, simply, holding up their credit cards to their computer webcam.

For publishers, WordPress by adding Netswipe to their site is simple-just download, install and activate like any other WordPress plugin.

With the new plugin WordPress site owners receive a "Netswipe PayMe" button that can be placed anywhere on their website. All payments are managed through your Jumio account, which is provided free of charge after registration.

After you download the WordPress plugin here, just unzip it and upload the folder "Wordpress_Jumio_Payment_Plugin" at the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory. Then activate the plugin through the plugins menu in WordPress. You can then configure the options in the menu "settings for WordPress. (More detailed instructions can be found here).

Jumio started last month, introducing its seamless, integrated solutions for merchants and developers for the failure of the payment industry. This is not only the technology easy to use, also adds a layer of security to digital operations to the physical card must be present in order to address the webcam Jumio to work.

Initially, the technology is available only for Desktop Web sites, but later this year, the two parts of the mobile solutions become available. This part of the system Jumio will include a mobile app and developer libraries. Jumio mobile developer tools are an aspect of the solution that is most like a Card.io, which offers similar tools.

Jumio received $ 6.5 million in funding from Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and other investors back in March.

Jumio offers advanced technology, which increases security and ease of use for credit card payment via the Internet. Jumio is the inventor of Netswipe, a patent pending solution that turns ...

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Erply takes on the square and Intuit with NFC-Enabled Mobile credit card reader for iOS

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Erply, a company that develops retail inventory management software takes on the square, Intuit and VeriFone today with new mobile credit card reader for device iOS. Erply credit card device connects to the iPad or iPhone and will transmit data encrypted credit card customer to point of sale and inventory management suite software payment processing.

With Erply reader retail iPhone charger attached to the port or the iPad and it communicates with the POS software company for transaction processing and accounting for the sale of stocks. Actually, credit card data is encrypted inside the device, ensuring that the transaction is safe and secure.

The advantage for the reader to link with inventory management, offers a complex solution for retail instead of user different software. And it works particularly well in the retail environment, where there are a large number of stocks. Plus, the founder of the Christian Hiiemaa said that the NFC reader, mobile-enabled transactions.

Erply credit card reader at a price of $ 50 with 1.9% transaction fee is a bit smaller than the square, VeriFone and Intuit charges. The area has recently dropped its transaction fee of $ 0.15 and charges merchants a flat 2.75%. Intuit made a similar move. But the square reader software for free, while software Erply nowhere varies from $ 70 to $ 1000 per month. You can also use Erply their existing user base of 20000 retailers who use the company's software for inventory management.

Of course it is important to note that Intuit GoPayment reader integrates with popular accounting software Quickbooks, and also developed a more comprehensive point of sale system with his latest iPad app. And the square grows quickly, especially among small businesses.

Erply actually is the winner of Seedcamp and has raised $ 2 million in funding from Redpoint and Index Ventures, Marten Mickos, Zack Urlocker (both formerly of MySQL), Kenny Van Zant (SolarWinds), Aydin Senkut, David McClure and the accelerator group. Erply mobile credit card reader is available now for iPad and will be provided within three months for the iPhone.

ERPLY is a manufacturer of software for commercial retail inventory and e-commerce, which processes the data across the physical stores, online shops and offices and provides real-time dashboards with relevant data. Erply ...

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