At the National Retail Federation’s Big Show, PayPal and Microsoft have announced the fruit of their partnership. The Windows ecosystem is about to get another important addition that will narrow down the app gap even further, the PayPal Here app.
PayPal Here was launched in 2012, and is the companion app of a triangular dongle that attaches to a device via a 3.5mm headphone jack, and can read credit or debit cards. This allows for easy mobile payments, but has not been available on Windows devices for more than two years.
This is about to change as PayPal has updated its credit card reader to support Surface tablets and Lumia phones. Microsoft takes advantage of this and wants to market the Surface Pro 3 as a complete point-of-sale solution that gives small businesses everything they need in order to manage and track their finances, as well as process payments.
In the coming months users of Windows 8.1 will be able to download the PayPal Here app from the Windows Store, and sellers will be able to test the Surface point of sale solution in Microsoft Retail Stores to decide if it meets their needs.
Furthermore, PayPal wants to add EMV card support for its Here reader in the U.S., after seeing an 80% drop in card fraud in Australia and the U.K. This will happen in stages, as the technology for mobile payments rolls out across the U.S.
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