Kounta sees Apple Pay as an example of their open Platform approach

Cloud based point of sale developer Kounta is again leading the way in mobile payments at the check out kiosk.  In 2012, Kounta worked with PayPal to develop a cashless, cardless payment scheme requiring nothing but a smartphone.  This year, the Aussie software developer is ahead of the pack again with its Apple Pay integration.  Kounta’s commitment to ease of use and security means never having to sacrifice one for the other, which makes Apple Pay a perfect fit for their point of sale. And while other POS vendors have been playing specifically to an apple-centric market of iOS enthusiasts, Kounta sees Apple Pay as an example of their open platform approach.    

We don’t have a hidden motive to tie small business owners down to a certain payments provider,” said Kounta executive Jason Seed.  "Instead, we have built an open platform that integrates with everything else, so small business owners can choose the payments provider...that suits them best."

Though using Apple Pay doesn’t require an Apple-centric environment, its inclusion in the POS has been welcome news to clients using Kounta’s native iOS POS app.  Apple users like their Apple products, pointing to their consistently easy-to-use and attractive interfaces.  But Kounta likes the new mobile payment platform for the added layer of security to payments.  Like the PayPal integration before it, Apple Pay makes carrying cash and credit cards look like an unnecessary risk.  When a customer waves her iPhone 6 over the Apple Pay NFC reader while holding a finger on the Touch ID fingerprint scanner—the phone beeps and vibrates when the payment is accepted.  No need to wake the phone, or type anything out.  And like Kounta’s implementation of EMV card payments, credit card numbers never make their way to the POS.  Apple runs the credit card behind the scenes after a successful fingerprint authentication, far away from where the payment is made.  Customers will have greater security from data theft, and merchants won’t have to worry about the kinds of wide scale data breaches that larger businesses have experienced in recent years.

About Kounta:

Kounta began in 2012, when founder and CEO Nick Cloete sought to bring Point of Sale into the 21st century.  Looking at an array of limited-use mobile POS apps whose chief selling point was existing in the cloud, Nick thought he could do better.  He assembled a team of talented programmers and designers and got to work creating Kounta, the first hospitality-focused POS with features that stand up to the leading industry players—and it also exists in the cloud.  Freeing customers from the traditional headaches associated with having a complete point-of-sale infrastructure on their premises, Kounta is a user friendly experience that gives small and medium sized businesses the same robust tools large corporations have relied on for years.  It supports mobile payment technologies like Apple Pay and Paypal, and is fully EMV compliant for integrated credit card payments. In addition to its iOS and Android apps, Kounta also works on legacy POS terminals, as well as Windows and Mac desktops.  For more information, visit http://www.kounta.com.

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