Tender Retail is pleased to announce a partnership with Shoppers Drug Mart, Canada's leading player in the retail drugstore marketplace and is the number one provider of pharmacy products and services.

Utilizing Tender Retail's Merchant Connect suite of electronic payment middleware, Shoppers Drug Mart stores will benefit by taking advantage of the most cost effective payment processors, all with a 2 – 3 second transaction turnaround for all of their gift cards, gift mall products and their loyalty Optimum programme.

Desjardins has chosen Tender Retail as one of its exclusive partners in providing integrated solutions for their merchants. We are excited to be involved with Desjardins and to draw upon their expertise within the Quebec market. As the first project of this new partnership, we have come together to introduce integrated credit and debit for the Bell Centre in Montreal prior to the start of the 2007 Hockey season. We look forward to working closely with Desjardins on many future projects.

Apple Canada and Tender Retail have teamed up to allow Apple’s in-store customers to avoid the checkout line completely. Drawing on technology developed for the computer maker’s US retail environment, Tender Retail and Apple have launched a Canadian-exclusive payment process that allows floor staff to complete a credit or gift card transaction anywhere in the store via a handheld card reader. The receipt is then e-mailed to the buyer, resulting in vastly improved customer through-put and satisfaction.

Tender Retail is pleased to welcome Metro Inc. to our growing list of retail partners. Currently Ontario and Quebec’s 2nd largest food store operator, Metro’s brands include segment leaders such as A&P, Dominion, Food Basics, Loeb, Marché Richelieu, Metro and others.

TD Merchant Services today announced the availability of Canada's first "chip-ready" integrated
point-of-sale (POS) solution designed for businesses preparing to upgrade their infrastructures to accept chip-based debit and credit cards.

Michael J. Roncon, President and CEO of Transactional Technology Solutions Inc., (TTSI), Canada's only provider of integrated payment technology multi-media solutions is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with Tender Retail, Canada’s largest provider of POS systems.

Tender Retail Systems has announced a partnership with Wendy's International, Inc., one of the world's largest quick service restaurant chains, to implement new debit and credit payment platforms in Wendy's company owned restaurants across Canada.

Utilizing Tender Retail's Merchant Connect suite of electronic payment middleware, Wendy's restaurants will now be able to handle a multitude of payment methods - including debit, credit and eventually gift cards while taking advantage of the most cost-effective payment processors, all with a 2-3 second transaction turnaround.

A new point of sale application will change the way restaurant operators do business. Tender Retail’s software integration with some of the most popular restaurant POS applications will allow restaurant operators to offer tethered and wireless debit, as well as credit and gift card services, without the need for any standalone hardware devices.

Rogers Video contracted Tender Retail to provide integrated payment systems to each of its 279 stores in November. The systems, which will allow Rogers to process payments from all sources using a single, high-speed system, is part of that company’s overall point-of-sale system upgrade.

The Canadian company's software allows merchants to process data from credit cards, debit cards, and checks using a single machine, software program, and processing company.
source: Lodging News - volume 7, issue 6