Elavon and Softpay team up to offer SoftPOS solution

By Gloria Methri

Elavon, a global acquirer and payments specialist, has partnered with Copenhagen-based Softpay to offer a SoftPOS payment solution to its customers. The partnership enables Elavon customers across Europe to accept card payments using only their smartphones.

The technology allows merchants to turn any Android mobile device into a fully card-present payments terminal by simply downloading an application that integrates with the Elavon payments platform. No additional hardware is needed.

The SoftPOS solution allows small and new businesses to start taking payments instantly, allowing owners to focus on other important aspects of business management.

Hemlata Narasimhan, President in Europe at Elavon, said, “Enabling small business owners to take fast, simple payments to meet the needs of their customers—and, ultimately, get paid themselves in an efficient manner—is critical to their business growth. Our SoftPOS solution with Softpay does that.”

Elavon has payment technology partners and sales operations in all major European regions. It offers multi-language customer support and more than 130 currencies and settlement capabilities.

Martin Lansinger, Head of Sales, Nordics for Elavon, said, “Partnerships are fundamental to providing our technology partners and resellers with the solutions they need to meet the needs of their customers. We are pleased to work with Softpay on this solution, which will give small businesses across Europe the necessary tools to grow.”

Ivan Sandqvist, Softpay co-founder, said, “We are proud to partner with Elavon to deliver our Softpay SoftPOS solution to payment technology partners and resellers. Our Softpay app with Elavon’s merchant services enables these partners to deliver a revolutionary payment solution, completely off the shelf, without the need for expensive traditional payment terminals to their merchants.”

The solution is fully PCI-compliant and allows businesses to premediate the need to accept cashless payments under pending regulation in some European markets.