35 Organizations Reselling Roam Data Mobile Service

PaymentsSource  |  Monday, April 19, 2010



Interest in Roam Data Inc.'s mobile-payment service appears to be high among independent sales organizations. Most of Roam Data's 35 resellers are ISOs, says Will Graylin, founder and CEO of Boston-based Roam Data



Roam Data also has agreements with Atlanta-based First Data Corp., Dallas-based Chase Paymentech LLC and Palm Desert (Calif.) National Bank, among others. First Data and Chase Paymentech resell Roam Data's services under their brand names, Graylin tells PaymentsSource. Graylin would not say how many merchants are using the service.



POS-terminal maker Ingenico SA, a minority investor in Roam Data, demonstrated the RoamPlayer technology at last week's Electronic Transactions Association Annual Meeting and Expo in Las Vegas.



During the conference, Ingenico representatives displayed a card reader, developed by HomeATM ePayment Solutions, that plugs into the audio jack of many smartphones, enabling card-present transactions.