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Viva.com and Extenda Retail Unite to Advance Cloud-Native All-in-One Retail & Hospitality Solutions in Europe
Viva.com, the 1st Tech Bank in Europe for Businesses, has entered a strategic partnership with checkout software solutions provider Extenda Retail, aiming to provide retailers with the latest cloud-native warehouse-to-payments technology. Viva.com’s innovative omnichannel payments platform is now integrated with HiiCheckout (High Intensity Intelligent) and ExtendaGoPOS solutions, saving retailers time, money, and resources, while offering speed to market, and a seamless in-store and online checkout experience. The hardware-agnostic joint solutions support different checkout flows -from fast retail to on-the-floor mobile checkout and fully-unattended self-served transactions. While focusing on enterprise-level merchants, they also address any business size, allowing even single stores and medium-sized retailers and hospitality businesses to benefit from plug & play end-to-end checkout technology. Leveraging Viva.com’s extensive footprint, the strategic partnership with Extenda Retail will roll out across all European countries.
“We are excited to launch our partnership with Extenda Retail, transforming the European retail industry with advanced cloud-based, all-in-one solutions, tapping on our extensive SME and enterprise market penetration in addition to our geographical footprint. Together, we deliver unparalleled efficiency, speed, and a cost-effective business platform, powered by our always-on payments technology, to suit the needs of all businesses in this industry,” commented Michele Petrelli, Head of Strategic ISV & Hardware Partners at Viva.com.
“This is a partnership which brings an exciting project to life. Retailers can now benefit from a bespoke solution which combines payment technology with a seamless checkout process. It’s integrated with the biggest retailers in the industry and the results are beyond our expectations”, says Channel Sales Director at Extenda Retail, Lily Verbeeck.
Viva.com’s leading Tap on Any Device technology enables businesses to accept contactless payments on any device. Supporting over 40 payment methods and features like Offline Payments, Real-Time Settlement, Dynamic Currency Conversion, Surcharge, Multicurrency, and a cashback scheme reducing transaction fees up to 0%, Viva.com empowers retailers of the Extenda Retail network to thrive.
Hii (High Intensity Intelligent) Retail is the comprehensive Point-of-Sale (POS) platform powering unified commerce. It’s built on the Google Cloud Platform with open architecture and APIs for super-fast time to value and unrivaled customer experiences.
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