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Merchants' Choice Payment Solutions Powers its All-New Foundry POS Solution with Powa Technologies
[March 04, 2015]

Merchants' Choice Payment Solutions Powers its All-New Foundry POS Solution with Powa Technologies


Powa Technologies today announced a partnership between its PowaPOS retail payments platform and Merchants' Choice Payment Solutions' (MCPS) all-new Foundry POS application. The partnership between the two leading companies will provide a robust, fully integrated and secure tablet-based POS solution for retail and restaurant industries.

"As demand for tablet-based payments solutions continues to skyrocket, and with the coming EMV transition, many merchants are more receptive today than ever before to finding a solution that meets their specific business needs," said Michael Struttmann, SVP and GM of North America, PowaPOS. "With this partnership, PowaPOS and MCPS can not only provide a powerful POS platform, but also one that leverages MCPS' payment processing capabilities, for a true all-in-one solution."

"The payments industry is in an exciting time of convergence, as the cloud, EMV conversion and advanced payments such as Apple (News - Alert) Pay continue to gain traction with small and medium businesses. And tablet-based payments are at the center of all of this change," said Todd Linden, President, MCPS. "As we identified the best hardware partners for our new Foundry POS app, PowaPOS' sophisticated design along with its simple SDK was the ideal choice. Together, we'll be able to meet the growing demand from our customers who want to provide an advanced, secure and innovative tablet-based payments solution today."

PowaPOS is the first point of sale platform purposely built for tablet-based payments. The first fully integrated design to incorporate all common retail peripherals, the PowaPOS T25 features a built in thermal printer, 2D QR/barcode scanner, orientation sensor, as well as the optional PowaPOS cash drawer, all with just a single power cord. With its advanced SDK, PowaPOS easily integrates with all POS software applications, as well as third party payment devices and PowaTag, Powa's innovative mobile commerce enablement app.



MCPS' Foundry POS is a powerful, cloud-based software application designed to meet the specific business needs of the retail and restaurant industries. Features include access to real time reports, including sales, inventory and employee management, as well as full integration with its Merchant Foundry CRM system. Foundry POS scales to easily support multiple locations, employees and devices. Third party payment device integration incorporates a full range of payment acceptance capabilities including EMV-ready cards, NFC-enabled payments including ApplePay, loyalty redemption, mobile wallets and more.

The Phoenix Group, a US distribution partner for PowaPOS, will provide the PowaPOS/Foundry POS solution to merchants. The Phoenix Group is one of the largest independent distributors in the POS industry, providing merchant-ready POS solutions to the merchant customers of software developers, independent sales organizations, banks, processors and agents.


About Merchants' Choice Payment Solutions (www.mcpscorp.com)

Merchants' Choice Payment Solutions (MCPS) is a full-service provider of debit and credit card processing. It maintains a complete suite of processing platforms of any acquirer and can provide interfaces to the most custom of POS solutions. MCPS has the economies of scale to offer competitive pricing, yet also possesses the ability to respond to merchants' unique needs. It is one of the top merchant acquirers in the U.S., delivering card processing services to more than 52,000 merchants and 1,000 bank locations in 17 states, processing over $12 billion in sales volume annually.

About Powa Technologies (www.powa.com)

Powa Technologies is an international commerce specialist that creates technologies that enable a seamless consumer experience across all purchase channels: online, offline and everywhere. With its next-generation solutions PowaTag, PowaPOS and PowaWeb, Powa removes the final barriers to instant global transactions through a revolutionary instant mobile payment technology, the first fully integrated tablet POS platform, and advanced cloud-based ecommerce solutions. Significant investment capital has accelerated company growth, attracting the industry's finest subject matter experts to conceive, build and deploy innovative commerce technology at the heart of both merchants' and brands' future omni-channel selling strategies. Powa Technologies is headquartered in London, UK, with offices in New York, Atlanta, San Diego, Miami, Toronto, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, Berlin, Amsterdam, Milan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Shanghai.


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