PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Purchases can be categorized as business or personal spend, while users can also add custom tags to purchases. “Keeping, sorting and tracking paper receipts is annoying and inefficient,” Microsoft Product Manager for Spend Heman Chawda said in a statement.

Healthcare 55

Healthcare B2B Communication Banking 55

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

The case highlights the fraud risks of continued use of paper checks in B2B payments. 555 billion is the price tag small businesses could see as a result of data breaches , according to recent analysis by iomart. 38,870 was allegedly stolen from a company through a fraudulent vendor scheme , reports in Herald.ie said recently.

B2B 59

B2B Construction Healthcare Securities 59

PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2019

Special tags can trigger purchases with Apple Pay without the need for a special app. iPhones can read a near-field communication (NFC) tag that is specially encoded to display an interface for an Apple Pay purchase when a user holds a device near it. Shoppers, however, would still be able to request a paper receipt.

Entertainment 44

Entertainment Retail Technology Communication 44

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Ghana says it plans to eliminate paper from most services and transactions by next year as it aims to become Africa’s most digitalized economy. The government claims that it will have “electronically tagged” every home, including informal housing in slums, via GPS by early 2020.

Leverage 42

Leverage Planning Technology Numbers 42

PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

The latest is global consulting firm McKinsey, whose new report has put a price tag on the potential of blockchain: $110 billion. That’s how much the global financial services industry (and, ultimately, their customers) could save by integrating blockchain solutions, the company said in its paper, published earlier this month.

Treasury 79

Treasury B2B Education Technology 79

PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

The habit is so tightly ingrained in American consumers that they walk in and start scanning those red sales tags before they are even consciously looking for the items they are there to buy. That habit is a hard one to break, and that has been one of the big barriers to U.S. adoption,” Jackson explained to Webster.

Retail 53

Retail Technology Sales Communication 53

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

They also include earmarked controls that allow producers to tag and reconcile purchases made for a particular project. Tayenaka previously kept an envelope filled with physical paper receipts, and a bookkeeper would then have to sort through them and compare against the company’s QuickBooks system to reconcile them.

Reconciliations 46

Reconciliations Budgeting Entertainment Advertising 46

PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2018

As reported by Reuters , Mercari is set to bow on the public markets in Japan, and while observers of the stock market are watchful of a billion-dollar price tag — which means, of course, unicorn status — the enthusiasm underpins a business model of a different sort.

Budgeting 46

Budgeting Retail Sales Marketing 46

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The home hair coloring aisle is an endless paper box procession of men’s and women’s faces framed by different colors of hair. Sumner said this is especially important for categories like electronics — try learning everything there is to know about an iPhone from three bullet points on a tag at BestBuy! —

Education 62

Education Retail Sales Investments 62

PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

. “The thing that’s so cool about having those relationships is that they literally tell us, either through their posts, their tags, their emails or their tweets, what they’re looking for, and we respond in kind.”

Advertising 60

Advertising Retail Marketing Sales 60

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2017

One must try to suss out a particular scent in an environment unusually rich with them, and by the second or third scented piece of paper, one has likely lost the meaningful ability to smell much of anything. There are also high-end, smaller batch, premium labels, though those come with the associated premium price tags.

eCommerce 40

eCommerce Retail 40

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Kroger and Microsoft are creating a digital shelving system called the EDGE Shelf, which uses digital displays in place of paper tags. About one in 10 – or 9.9 percent – of consumers said the main reason they visited a grocery store was because it provided targeted opportunities.

Entertainment 54

Entertainment Advertising Retail Technology 54

PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

A 2016 paper led by Stanford University Economist Raj Chetty found that millennials were in deeper economic trouble than a quick look at the U.S. The data on millennials’ lifetime earnings potential were already fairly grim long before the word “coronavirus” became part of everyone’s daily conversations – and before the U.S.

Economics 61

Economics Education Retail Marketing 61

PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

Plans call for equipping agents with an iPhone, and two mobile printers that could clip onto their belts — one to print baggage tags and the other to print boarding passes. . Now, attendants] don’t have to sit and manually write in books and on papers to do their reconciliation. Attending To The Attendants .

Reconciliations 52

Reconciliations Sales Numbers Securities 52

PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster has volunteered at a few charity fundraisers in her day, and the call to action at the end of the night is still, in 2017, to reach for the checkbook and write out the donation amount on paper. Doesn’t matter how nice of a ballpoint pen you write it with … that’s some serious payments friction.

Entertainment 49

Entertainment Technology Communication Accounting 49

PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The New York Daily News reported last week that the city’s contract with source-to-pay technology firm Ivalua has seen its price tag increase from $30.5 In the public sector, Utley said he’s actually seeing very few paper checks in use, as government entities embrace ACH and government purchasing cards to pay their vendors.

Compliance 58

Compliance Invoicing Leverage Technology 58

PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

The pans come with graffiti-styled labels on the bottom and plantable paper tags embedded with basil seeds. As a result, the cookware is more or less manufactured here in the U.S. — by a third-generation manufacturer based in the Southeastern U.S.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Budgeting Investments Startups 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

In the process, might the age-old frustration of standing in line at the DMV, shuffling papers, paying by (gasp!) paper check all be transformed along the way? Think stamped metal translated into bits and bytes, helping to transform a part of the auto industry that has been around for more than a hundred years: license plates.

Advertising 51

Advertising Technology Securities Numbers 51

PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

The paper reported that “Costco will be targeting China’s affluent growing middle class, who know the brand from traveling abroad.”. Demand has been slumping in China for Apple products, in part because of the hefty price tag. A Challenging Time. The store opening comes at what can be politely called a challenging time.

Marketing 40

Marketing Retail eCommerce Numbers 40

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

So, for nonprofits, every expense must not only be recorded and analyzed to assess their own spend, but it must be appropriately categorized and tagged to show grantors and auditors. ” Like many SMBs, nonprofits — especially smaller ones — often continue to rely on paper receipts and expense sheets to track their spend.

Nonprofit 46

Nonprofit Budgeting Compliance Leverage 46

PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

The shelf, which is spelled out as Enhanced Display for Grocery Environment in the statement, uses digital displays in place of paper tags to show prices as well as nutritional and promotion information. With one such experience, Kroger and Microsoft are creating a digital shelving system called the EDGE Shelf.

Analyzing Data 43

Analyzing Data Technology Advertising Retail 43

PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2016

The two office supply firms also noted it might be a bit fanciful to imagine they as a combined entity could somehow leverage the largest corporations into America into drastically marked-up pricing on paper clips. The FTC, of course, was very happy with the result.

Retail 40

Retail eCommerce Sales B2B 40

PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

A companion mobile app enables tagging of favorites, style comparisons and, of course, shopping recommendations. He feels that richer data — of the kind that True Fit gathers — could inform these visual shopping technologies going forward to take them beyond the “paper doll” stage into true visualization. A Different Approach.

Manufacturing 46

Manufacturing Technology Communication Leverage 46

PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2018

In the early 1900s, department stores came up with a novel idea to help their customers pay for their purchases: Customers could use metal plates — that looked like dog tags or tokens — at retailers such as Gimbels that tracked their spending. General stores had been tracking customer information in a general ledger for years.

General Ledger 43

General Ledger Retail Banking Numbers 43

PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

A 2017 survey from Wasp Barcode in its “State of Small Business Report” found nearly a fifth of SMBs use pen and paper to manage their inventory, while 21 percent rely on Excel spreadsheets (8 percent admitted that they don’t even track inventory at all). The industry is quickly innovating, too, Phillips said.

eCommerce 40

eCommerce Technology Accounting Marketing 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

It’s as simple as adding a “sponsored content” tag on a blog post, an adequately transparent product plug by a YouTube celebrity or even a rapid-fire reading of the fine print — anything that informs the audience that what they’re consuming isn’t completely impartial. Disclosure of sponsored content isn’t difficult.

Advertising 40

Advertising Manufacturing Education Marketing 40

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2019

But not every over-the-top gift can be measured by the size of the price tag. We had paper catalogs. Nothing really says “I’m sorry, Merry Christmas” like a diamond roughly the size and dimensions of a golf ball, after all. His mother understood that to mean a toy with lights and a siren. There was just one problem.

Sales 55

Sales eCommerce Retail 55

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

However, a quick scan of the social media accounts of any of those establishments will turn up hundreds of thousands of pictures of hot, steaming mugs, tumblers and paper cups of coffee — many of which are dutifully tagged #NationalCoffeeDay and #WhereEverTheyJustGaveMeFreeCoffee.

Retail 41

Retail Sales Investments Numbers 41

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Security guards today rely very much on pen and paper and phone tag. Our mission is to keep our cities safe, and we’re building the technology to make that a reality. And so for us, we happened to have stumbled upon a giant industry that’s very much stuck in the ‘80s. What we’ve done is used technology to streamline communication.

Securities 69

Securities Math Startups Technology 69

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Those refunds come care of President Obama’s plan to help struggling student loan borrowers — and they have a price tag attached that is more expensive than previously thought. The paper noted the $108 billion only covers loans made through the current school year.

Transportation 53

Transportation Education Securities Planning 53

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Numerous businesses — especially small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) — still utilize paper checks for many of their B2B payments, and the method’s frictions have deepened in recent months. Digital technologies’ rise has boosted users’ expectations for swift payments and reduced their satisfaction with older, paper-based methods.

Treasury 76

Treasury B2B Accounts Payable Cash Management 76

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Paper Jams Preventing Total Transformation. Talk of digital transformation is all well and good, unless you’re still doing the paper thing. Many still are, but signs point to paper reliance phasing out fast. FIs and corporates must make sure not to get caught on the wrong side of that swing as it happens.

B2C 67

B2C Banking Treasury Invoicing 67

PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

Plus, research places a price tag on B2B sales efforts, the alternative lending industry and small business expense practices. Expanded globally, the price tag of wasted money hits $1.4 All the stats funnel into the picture of how companies are spending their money — sometimes, not so wisely. trillion every year, reports said.

B2B 40

B2B Finance Invoicing Sales 40

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

As such, consumers typically wait days, if not weeks, for their claims to be delivered as paper checks in their mailboxes. Cardi described mobile apps as “game changers” for the claims disbursement process, largely because they offer the ability to turn a friction-filled game of telephone tag with an agent into a self-service process.

Investments 40

Investments Accounting Planning Sales 40

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The solution focuses on making it easier to “tag” an expense as a business-related one, a feature the executive said can have an array of benefits for professionals to gain a tighter grip on cash flow and spend management. Most companies, which is surprising to me, still use pen and paper to do their expenses,” he said.

Accounting 46

Accounting Retail Planning Banking 46

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Some experts expect another round of mass buying of certain items — masks, hand sanitizer, disinfectant spray and (of course) Charmin and other brands of toilet paper. The botton line: Many grocers got tagged when they didn’t see the last wave of pandemic-related buying coming.

Marketing 109

Marketing Retail 109

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. And they’re shaking the paper going… RITHOLTZ: “Hey, this is nice, but where’s the cash?” Oh, you just do work with mathematics and intellectual activities. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Economics 56

Economics Education Profit and Loss Banking 56