CardFlight Launches New Bluetooth Mobile POS Solutions with EMV Chip Card and NFC Contactless Payment Acceptance

CardFlight, a mobile point of sale (POS) technology provider, is launching the Bold B550 and Bold B500, a new family of mobile card readers that communicate with iOS and Android devices by Bluetooth technology. The launch follows Apple's announcement today of the iPhone 7, a revolutionary smartphone that does not contain an audio jack. CardFlight clients who want to use new smartphone and tablet devices can accept payments using the latest mobile payment technologies, including EMV chip cards, contactless NFC payments and mobile wallets such as Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay, with the new readers that connect via Bluetooth, instead of an audio jack.

Resellers of SwipeSimple will now be able to offer their merchants the Bold B500 and Bold B550 devices, which are EMV certified with First Data and ready to use. The Bold B500 is particularly valuable for smaller merchants who want to accept EMV payments or prefer to connect to a card reader via Bluetooth rather than the audio jack connectivity used in CardFlight's other readers. The Bold B550 offers NFC contactless payments acceptance, in addition to EMV chip card and magnetic stripe support. SwipeSimple is CardFlight's product that enables merchant service providers, banks, independent sales organizations and other financial institutions to offer a great EMV-enabled mobile point-of-sale solution to their merchants.

Additionally, the Bold B500 and Bold B550 will be available through CardFlight SDK, a software development kit product, which enables mobile app developers to incorporate card present payments into their own applications. The semi-integrated solution allows developers to integrate in a matter of days, without having to perform their own EMV certifications with processors and payment networks, a solution used by Peloton and Indochino among many other innovative companies.