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• payleven launches multi-­channel product suite for application developers

  Written by payleven
  21/04/2016

  ​Today, payleven, the leading mobile payment company for small and medium sized businesses, launches a suite of developer products for mobile payment integration on iOS and Android; payleven for Developers.

• payleven develops into the first multi-channel payments provider for small businesses with the launch of Telephone Payments

  Written by payleven
  31/03/2016

  payleven, the leading mobile payments company for small and medium sized businesses, launches its new
  feature with the introduction of an over the phone payment service: payleven Telephone Payments.

• payleven successfully closes USD 10 million Series D growth financing round and expands investor portfolio

  Written by payleven
  11/02/2016

  – payleven, the leading mobile payments company for small and medium sized businesses, announced today the close of its Series D funding round with the addition of Seventure Partners, one of the key European venture capital firms, as an investor. The fund participated in the round alongside some of the existing investors, Holtzbrinck Ventures, ru-Net, B Cinque, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and MePay. 

• Business performance on the wrist: payleven pioneers again by supporting the Apple Watch & Force Touch

  Written by payleven
  17/12/2015

  payleven, the leading mobile payments company for small and medium sized businesses, releases a new version of its mobile iOS app,
  including an update with Apple Watch and Force Touch support.

• payleven enables European SMEs to accept contactless payments and Apple Pay with new card reader

  Written by payleven
  01/12/2015

  payleven, the leading mobile payments company for small and medium sized businesses, today announces the launch of its NFC capable Chip & PIN card reader “payleven Plus”, including support for Apple Pay. Starting today, business owners in the UK, Netherlands and France can purchase the new card reader online on payleven’s website, with more countries to follow during the next weeks. 

• Monte Paschi Banque to distribute payleven’s Chip & PIN solution in France

  Written by payleven
  27/10/2015

  payleven, the leading mobile payments company for small and medium sized businesses, and Monte Paschi Banque, subsidiary from Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the longest existing Italian credit institute, announce their partnership. As of now, the payleven Chip & PIN card reader is available on Monte Paschi Banque’s website at special rates. With Monte Paschi Banque as a first financial institution partner in France, payleven further broadens its global partner portfolio.

• American Express and payleven to offer free card reader and credit card in exclusive business bundle

  Written by payleven
  20/10/2015

  payleven, the leading mobile payments company for small and medium sized businesses, and American Express, one of the leading payment card issuers for small businesses, today announce their business bundle for SMBs. The bundle consists of a free payleven Chip & PIN card reader as well as the American Express Business Gold Card. As of now, the product bundle can be purchased by any business exclusively via the payleven website. Initially, this offer is only available to businesses in Germany.

• payleven and Visa launch programme to equip the Brazilian non-banked through innovative prepaid credit card

  Written by payleven
  04/08/2015

  payleven, the leading mobile payments company for small and medium sized businesses, launches, in partnership with Visa, the global leader in payments, the payleven Visa prepaid card. The solution allows merchants in Brazil – especially sole traders – to receive the money transacted via the payleven Chip & PIN card reader without requiring a separate bank account. The money will be transferred directly to their prepaid credit card.

• Nobly POS first integrator of payleven’s new mPOS SDK

  Written by payleven
  21/05/2015

  payleven, the leading mobile payments company for small and medium sized businesses, announces its new Software Development Kit (SDK). The mPOS SDK provides iOS and Android developers with the ability to integrate card payments through their own applications. Card payments can be processed seamlessly through the app in combination with payleven’s Chip & PIN card reader. It is now available across all ten European markets, where payleven operates, and is free of charge.

• Éire Abú – payleven launches payment service in Ireland

  Written by payleven
  17/03/2015

  payleven, Europe’s leading mobile payments company for small and medium sized businesses, announces the launch of its 11th market. Irish business owners can handle card payments as of today without fixed costs, contractual obligations or minimum sales through payleven’s Chip & PIN card reader. As a gift for all Irish business owners, payleven offers an exclusive introductory price of 64 EUR for the card reader.

• Salon Services and payleven enter distribution partnership

  Written by payleven
  30/09/2014

  Salon Services, the UK and Ireland’s largest professional hair and beauty supplier and payleven, Europe’s leading mPOS company that allows businesses to accept card payments on-the-go, announce their partnership in the UK. The Chip & PIN solution will be available from September in over 250 retail locations and online.

• payleven introduces new pricing model for UK

  Written by payleven
  02/09/2014

  payleven, Europe’s leading mobile payments company for small and medium sized businesses, today announces to drop its fixed pay-as-you-go transaction fees for their UK customers that process more than £2,500 per month.

• Staples to distribute payleven across Europe

  Written by payleven
  22/07/2014

  Staples, the world’s leading supplier of office products and payleven, Europe's leading provider of mobile card payments, enter into a distribution partnership. The payleven Chip & PIN card reader is now available in all Staples stores in Germany, the UK and the Netherlands, and in respective Staples online stores.

• Telecom Italia and payleven enter mPOS distribution partnership

  Written by payleven
  30/06/2014

  Telecom Italia, the leader in ICT services in Italy, and payleven, the European leader in mobile card payments, have entered into a partnership, enabling Telecom Italia to offer to its customers a cost-effective and easy-to-use mobile card payments solution. The Chip & PIN card reader and a mobile app are available at no additional cost allowing business owners to use their smartphone or tablet to accept payments.

• payleven enables Easy Taxi to offer in-app card payments

  Written by payleven
  03/06/2014

  Easy Taxi, the world’s largest app to order taxis, and payleven, the company that allows small and medium-sized businesses to accept card payments on-the-go, announce their partnership for Brazil. Passengers who use the Easy Taxi app to book a ride can now easily pay for their rides by card.

• The bank of besties: Lending money to friends costs UK £390Million

  Written by payleven
  11/04/2014

  Research from payleven, Europe’s leading provider of mobile card payments and retail solutions, today reveals that Brits are owed a staggering £390million1 in unpaid debts from their mates. The study of 2,000 UK adults, has found that Brits lend friends an average of £272 each year and will typically lend mates cash four times every 12 months.

• Pioneering once again – payleven brings mobile NFC-cardreaders to Europe

  Written by payleven
  19/03/2014

  payleven, Europe’s leading mobile card payment solution, today announces the launch of a NFC (Near Field Communication) mobile CHIP & PIN card reader to the European market for the second half of 2014. While the major mobile phone manufacturers and card providers have already started to implement NFC to enable consumers, the merchant side NFC-terminals have to date been costly and uncommon in everyday use for most smaller business owners.

• More flexible - payleven now native on Intel® Atom™ processors

  Written by payleven
  17/12/2013

  payleven, Europe’s leading provider of mobile card payments and retail solutions, now fully supports Android smartphones and tablets with Intel® Atom™ processors. The optimized performance of the payleven App on Intel® Atom™ based Android smartphones and tablets ensures a smooth process and best performance in terms of CPU and battery life of the payleven payment and retail solutions for corresponding mobile devices. The technological cooperation is an important step for payleven, in making accessibility of mobile payment for small and medium-sized businesses simpler.

• World market leader Ingram Micro to distribute payleven across Europe

  Written by payleven
  18/11/2013

  payleven, Europe's leading provider of mobile card payments, today announced the Europe-wide partnership with Ingram Micro, the world's leading wholesale distributor of IT products. payleven’s Chip & PIN card reader will be now widely distributed by Ingram Micro in eight European markets: Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, the UK, Spain and Poland. The partnership with Ingram Micro is an important step for payleven and the entire mobile payment to make Chip & PIN technology freely available commercially and greatly facilitates access to mobile card payment. The Chip & PIN bluetooth card reader, the most secure solution for mobile card payments on the market, is a world first in the distribution portfolio of Ingram Micro.

• More than payment – payleven launches customer loyalty programme

  Written by payleven
  13/11/2013

  payleven, Europe’s leading provider of mobile card payments, introduces its extensive loyalty programme which aims to help merchants turn one-time clients into regular customers and to establish strong ties with them. Based on a digital version of the well-known loyalty bonus stamp cards and integrated into the payleven app, it enables small and medium-sized businesses to create individual loyalty programmes and corresponding campaigns. In addition, they gain an insight into consumer spending and are given the opportunity to interact with their customers. 

• Bonjour la France – payleven launches mobile payment in France

  Written by payleven
  06/11/2013

  payleven, Europe's leading provider of mobile card payments, today announced its entry into the French market. payleven’s solution for mobile card payments will be launched as a test run first, but will include full product support. This is the first time in France that card payments can be handled without fixed costs, contractual obligations or minimum sales through payleven’s Chip & PIN card reader - the most secure PIN-verification device for mobile card payments on the market. payleven is particularly aimed at small and medium sized business owners as well as individuals; from taxi drivers, restaurant owners and market vendors to tutors and photographers.

• payleven’s Chip & PIN card reader available in Media Markt online shop

  Written by payleven
  25/09/2013
  The Chip & PIN card reader from payleven, Europe's leading provider of mobile card payments, is now available through the German Media Markt online shop. With the possibility to obtain immediate verification of payment by entering the PIN number, the chip & PIN card readers are the safest solution for mobile card payments in the market and the first to be offered by Media Markt.

• payleven and Poste Italiane to engage in significant partnership

  Written by payleven
  20/09/2013
  payleven, the European leader in mobile card payments and Poste Italiane have signed an agreement which makes the payleven mobile card payment solution available for all clients of Banco Posta in Italy. Using the payleven Chip & PIN card reader, SMEs as well as freelancers can accept debit and credit cards through an app on their smartphone or tablet.

• Hallo and bonjour – payleven introduces payment solution to Belgium

  Written by payleven
  04/09/2013
  payleven, the leading provider of mobile card payments in Europe, today announces its launch in the Belgian market. In this eighth market of payleven, the company has two objectives: The democratisation of card payments and the strengthening of small and medium-sized businesses through a solution which, in contrast to the costly and complex products of traditional vendors, fits their needs.

• Card payment in black and white – payleven cooperates with BIXOLON

  Written by payleven
  21/08/2013
  payleven, Europe’s leader in mobile card payments and BIXOLON, a globally active manufacturer of printer systems, announce their cooperation. The mobile BIXOLON printer SPP-R200IIi will be sold via payleven in a bundle with the Chip & PIN device or as stand-alone, starting today.

• SCREWFIX ENABLES CUSTOMERS TO TAKE PAYMENTS ON THE MOVE

  Written by payleven
  15/08/2013
  Leading supplier, Screwfix has announced it will be the first UK trade supplier to stock the payleven Chip & PIN device, which enables tradesmen to process credit and debit payments anytime, anywhere. Now tradesmen can buy a machine for card transactions, making it quicker, smarter and easier for them to receive payment for jobs they undertake during their busy working day – all you need is this handy machine and a smart phone.

• Servus Austria- payleven introduces mobile payments to Austria

  Written by payleven
  10/07/2013
  As of 10th July, the company will offer the Chip & PIN card reader to all Austrian retailers and merchants. The payleven solution is targeted towards small and medium sized enterprises, who want a way to accept card payments. It is easy, economical, mobile and most importantly, secure.

• More Revenue via Card Payments – BZP Association Cooperates with payleven

  Written by payleven
  26/06/2013
  The largest German passenger traffic association, BZP, and payleven, the leading European provider for mobile card payments, announce their cooperation. payleven has just been appointed as a sustaining member of the BZP. In existence since 1947, the central organisation of German public transportation businesses such as taxis and rental cars, now offers the Chip & Pin technology to all of their members.

• Wirecard and payleven launch far-reaching strategic technology alliance

  Written by payleven
  03/06/2013
  Munich-based Wirecard AG and payleven GmbH, based in Berlin and London, have agreed a strategic alliance for new mobile payments technologies. payleven’s chip and PIN-card readers are primarily geared to SMEs. The strategic alliance is based on the international expansion of innovative point of sale payment solutions (M-POS).

• MICROS Kachng! and payleven join forces to provide first cloud-based point-of-sale

  Written by payleven
  15/05/2013
  MICROS, the leading provider of technology for the retail and hospitality industries and payleven, Europe’s technological leader in mobile payment, announce they are joining forces to provide businesses with the world’s first cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) solution with integrated mobile Chip & PIN card payment technology. As the first step in a European partnership, together they offer an affordable and advanced POS solution.

• New sign-up process – payleven opens doors to private individuals in UK

  Written by payleven
  17/04/2013
  payleven, Europe’s technological leader in mobile payment, today announces two important steps to improve the ease and ability to accept cards, introducing a quicker and simpler paperless sign-up process as well as opening payleven to the general public and non-businesses.

• More than just card payments –payleven introduces new product features

  Written by payleven
  11/04/2013
  payleven, Europe’s technological leader in mobile payment, is today announcing two significant new product features to its platform- multi-accounts and support for various printer systems - making the daily use of the mobile Chip & PIN payment solution more efficient and flexible for merchants.

• payleven becomes first FSA fully authorised mobile payment provider

  Written by payleven
  27/03/2013
  payleven, Europe’s mobile payment pioneer, today announces it has become the first mobile payment provider to be fully authorised by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) as a payment institution. This accreditation was issued due to the highest security standards being met by payleven’s mobile Chip & PIN device and overall payment solution.

• payleven goes live with Europe’s leading mobile payment solution

  Written by payleven
  08/02/2013
  payleven,Europe’s mobile payments pioneer,launches its innovative Chip & PIN solution across Europe. From today, businesses of any size can sign up for the solution on payleven.com and purchase the device at a special introductory price of GBP 49, (excl. VAT). The shipment of devices starts on the 18th of February.

• payleven’s new device enables full Visa acceptance

  Written by payleven
  08/02/2013
  payleven, Europe’s mobile payments pioneer, which recently unveiled the first pan-European Chip & PIN Mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) solution for smartphones and tablets, today confirms that its innovative device is fully enabled to accept Visa credit and debit cards in all European countries where it operates. payleven is the first full Payment Service Provider (PSP) with a Chip & PIN solution for Europe.

• payleven gets high single digit USD million funding

  Written by payleven
  21/01/2013
  At the end of 2012, payleven, Europe’s mobile payment pioneer, secured additional funding to continue its strong growth in Europe and South America. The high single digit USD million amount comes largely from a new investor who joins the existing group consisting of New Enterprise Associates, Holtzbrinck Ventures, ru-Net and Rocket Internet.

• payleven rolls out Android across Europe

  Written by payleven
  19/12/2012
  payleven, Europe’s mobile payment pioneer, rolls out Android and launches the mobile payment app in the Google Play Store in Italy, UK and Poland. Previously, it was only available in Germany.

• O2 and payleven start Mobile Payment Cooperation

  Written by payleven
  05/12/2012
  payleven, Europe’s mobile payment pioneer, cooperates with telecommunications provider Telefónica Germany. payleven turns a smartphone or tablet into a card terminal, enabling small businesses and mobile service providers to accept card payments everywhere – without any fixed costs or complicated signup process.

• payleven starts cooperation with Taxiverband Berlin Brandenburg

  Written by payleven
  08/11/2012
  payleven, Europe’s mobile payments pioneer, joins forces with Taxiverband Berlin, TVB, one of the leading taxi associations in Berlin. The test project is the next step for payleven to bring its solution to the public. Now anybody´s iPhone or iPad can be transformed into a mobile card terminal in a matter of seconds, enabling you to accept card payments anytime and anywhere – e.g. in a Taxi. Simply download the free payleven app and register.

• payleven accepts Chip & PIN registrations / price is decreased to 2.75%

  Written by payleven
  23/10/2012
  payleven, Europe’s mobile payments pioneer, has announced that merchants can register for the introduction of payleven’s new and innovative Chip & PIN mobile payment technology. As the first pan-European mobile payments company, payleven offers merchants the ability to accept all major debit and credit cards using a smartphone or tablet - anytime, anywhere. In Germany and England payleven is also lowering the cost per transaction to 2.75%. This makes payleven not only the most technologically advanced mobile payment provider, but also one of the most price competitive card payment services.

• payleven releases chip & PIN solution

  Written by payleven
  03/10/2012
  payleven is the first provider of a Chip & PIN solution for mobile payments across Europe, as announced today at the ‘Apps World’ conference in London. In Europe, Visa only allows mobile payments with Chip & PIN authorization. Now with payleven, all credit and debit cards from all major providers can be accepted with the superior payleven customer experience. With the introduction of its Chip & PIN solution, payleven is the first company on the European continent to fulfill the high technical and security standards required for a fully-functional mobile point of sale. With payleven, all merchants now have the opportunity to accept all major credit and debit cards.

• payleven releases API f / Launch in Italy

  Written by payleven
  24/09/2012
  Today, payleven released its application programming interface (API) for developers. Now anyone can integrate the payleven payment solution into their apps. Furthermore, payleven continues its international expansion and launches operations in Italy.

• International roll-out for payleven

  Written by payleven
  30/08/2012
  After tremendous success in Germany, the new mobile payments startup payleven is rolling out globally fast. Today the company launched its business in Brazil, the Netherlands, Poland and Great Britain operationally; more countries will follow soon. With the new plug & pay solution by payleven all merchants can accept card payments easily, anytime and anywhere. Whether on the go, in a shop, at a customer’s home, card payment has never been so convenient and affordable.