{"id":53553,"date":"2014-03-23T00:05:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T22:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=53553"},"modified":"2014-03-23T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T07:23:15","slug":"absa-pos-payment-device-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/53553\/absa-pos-payment-device-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Absa POS payment device ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

Banking group\u00a0Absa<\/a>\u00a0says its\u00a0mobile point-of-sale (POS) device, the Payment Pebble, is finally ready for public use, following an initial trial period with\u00a0with pre-selected merchants.<\/p>\n

In November 2012, \u00a0the bank announced that it has entered into an agreement with\u00a0Thumbzup<\/a>\u00a0for its plug-in pebble device.<\/p>\n

The bank was due to launch the product\u00a0as a value-added service to all small business owners and merchants on-the-go from early 2013; however,\u00a0because the product has been built in South Africa, for South African use, it needed to jump through several regulatory hoops in order to meet international \u00a0standards.<\/p>\n

“The Payment Pebble has been available to merchants since late last year on a commercial pilot, but with local production now in full swing it is being made available to the wider public as I type this,” a spokesperson for Absa told BusinessTech.<\/p>\n

Nedbank<\/a>\u00a0has already launched a\u00a0mobile point-of-sale solution in February, called PocketPOS, claiming a first for South Africa.<\/p>\n

The mobile POS solution enables businesses to process debit and credit card transactions by using a smartphone connected to a secure card reader.<\/p>\n

\u00a0More on Absa’s pebble<\/h3>\n

Absa Pebble in next pilot phase<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Absa explains mobile payment device delay<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Absa intros mobile card payments for small business<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

FNB mobile payment device a step closer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Nedbank launches mobile POS service<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Absa app hits 200,000 downloads<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Banking group Absa says its mobile point-of-sale (POS) device, the Payment Pebble, is finally ready for public use, following an initial trial period with with pre-selected merchants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":44635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-53553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53604,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53553\/revisions\/53604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}