Category Archives: Kiosk picks

Picks are the most newsworthy of articles posts on the site.

Kiosk Industry is the news engine for the Kiosk Manufacturer Association or KMA which is a global, cause-based, not-for-profit organization focused on better self-service for customers and employees through kiosks and information technology (IT). Kiosk Industry Association leads efforts to optimize self-service engagements and engagement outcomes using information technology such as kiosks.

Samsung Kiosk – All-In-One Self-Service Solution for Retailers

Samsung Kiosk ROI From Samsung Nice writeup on the benefits and features of the Samsung kiosk for self-order and restaurants. For more information you can email [email protected] Published Nov 8, 2021By: Davina van Buren 6 ways Samsung Kiosk gives retailers an all-in-one self-service solution from Samsung Business USA Self-service retail solutions have been gaining popularity for years, and COVID-19… Read More »

Olea Kiosks Introduces The Franklin Bill Payment Kiosk at G2E

Olea G2E Press Release LOS ANGELES, Calif., October 10, 2019 — Olea Kiosks of Los Angeles welcomes the Franklin Bill Payment kiosk as the newest addition to its self-service line-up.  This secure and versatile kiosk is built to accept payments of any kind, anywhere. The Franklin Bill Payment kiosk has the ability to accept and dispense dollar bills, dispense… Read More »

Ultra-Slim Kiosk Printer Solutions

Ultra-Slim Kiosk Printer Solutions With a sleek and stylish design, lean frames, and small footprint the new Ultra-Slim Portrait Kiosks are perfect for any indoor application! These kiosks can serve as a digital signage solution for any indoor application, including corporate, education, transportation, retail, and more, and can host the highest quality audio and video solutions and accessories.… Read More »

Kiosk Printers – Microcom Catalog of Thermal Printers

Kiosk Printer Catalog Thermal kiosk printers are available from many dedicated manufacturers. Microcom has the mission: To create long term customer relationships by engineering and manufacturing the industry’s most cost effective and highest quality thermal printing solutions. American-made makes a difference too in quality and availability. Microcom offers a wide range of customization to fit exactly the kiosk… Read More »

Kiosk Tradeshow – China International Vending 2018

The China International Vending Show 2018 is Now Ready to Showcase the Newest Self-service Technologies and Products to the World The China International Self-service, Kiosk and Vending Show (CVS) 2018 is the place to get all of the resources you require to achieve your business goals and to fulflil the needs of the entire convenience services industry. At this premier event… Read More »

New Self-Service Vending Kiosk For the Gatwick Rail Station

Gatwick Vending Kiosk From Evoke Creative — New self-service kiosks installed at Gatwick Airport rail station to improve the customer experience at this busy station. London, 28 June 2021 – Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry Worldline and Evoke Creative have combined their expertise in rail ticketing solutions and kiosk design… Read More »

Kiosk Association Releases Multi-Vendor COVID Catalog

Temperature Kiosk Catalog From BusinessWire Sep2020 September 30, 2020 06:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time WESTMINSTER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Kiosk Association (KMA) announces the first multi-vendor kiosk solution catalog for COVID-related kiosk solutions. 22 different solutions for COVID and Temperature screening kiosks are available to choose from. CAKCEK is the authorized distributor for KMA standards conformance solutions. The owner of CAKCEK, Craig… Read More »

NEW DATA: Retail Kiosk Research — The Next Billion-Dollar Industry

State of Unattended Kiosk and Retail Market 2018 The age of unattended retail has arrived apparently. New story and report from PYMNTS.com in conjunction with USA Technologies. According to research inside the Kiosk and Retail Report, a USA Technologies collaboration, the interactive kiosk industry market will be worth $1.073 billion. They note the industry has already experienced some impressive growth, with the… Read More »

Kiosk Association (KMA) Announces New ADA Accessibility and EMV Initiatives

PR Newswire Feb 2021 —  DENVER, Feb. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Kiosk Association announces initiatives for Kiosk EMV and Kiosk ADA EMV Initiative — As a Participating Organization with the PCI SSC, KMA encourages deployment of EMV devices (PCI certified) for CATs (Cardholder Activated Terminals). The problem has been companies attempting to try and reposition web non-EMV shopping carts into… Read More »

Gold Sponsor – American Kiosks Manufacturer

American Kiosks Kiosk Manufacturer – Gold Sponsor Welcome to our newest Gold Sponsor — American Kiosks.  And they are hiring…. American Manufacturing — Proudly designed, fabricated and assembled all in the USA. Flexible Partnering Capabilities — From ready-to-go products, to design services, we can help. 35 Years of Kiosk Expertise — Knowledgeable and capable partners to help with your… Read More »

Generative AI Assist – Consumer Facing AI

Verneek Retail AI Assist Welcome to Verneek our latest Advisory Board member. Verneek’s  One Quin provides enterprises with one holistic consumer-facing AI solution to accurately answer personalized questions through voice activation or text anywhere. The  Verneek platform is unique in answering specific questions reliably based on dynamic enterprise data that gets automatically augmented with relevant public information. The platform’s… Read More »

Generative AI – Coming soon to kiosks

Generative AI: Coming soon to a kiosk near you The most talked about technology this year–generative AI, which is behind ChatGPT, BingChat, Google Bard and dozens of other implementations–is likely to be talking right from the speaker of most kiosks quite soon. With some simple limitations to avoid it hallucinating the kiosk into big trouble, GenAI could take… Read More »

Regulatory News – ADA Kiosk, POS Kiosks, and EV Charging Update

Updated Regulatory Information for Kiosks, POS and EV Charging – June 2022 The big news is that the U.S. Access Board has announced its next session which include EV Charging Stations, Kiosks and POS. Not quite sure of the difference between information transaction machines and kiosks but we will find out. For more updates and information contact [email protected]Read More »

POSBANK and Esper Retail Self-Serve Android Kiosks

POSBANK and Esper Help Retailers Rapidly Launch Self-Serve Android Kiosks From PRWeb — POSBANK and Esper Launch Self-Serve Loyalty Program Kiosks at Parker’s Convenience Stores POSBANK, global leading POS terminal and Kiosk manufacturer, teamed up with Esper, the leading Android DevOps solution, to help retailers rapidly launch self-serve customer kiosks. Today, POSBANK and Esper announced they successfully deployed… Read More »

Press Release — Kiosk Association Sponsors MUFSO Session

Kiosk Association Sponsors MUFSO Paul Brown, Inspire Brands Innovation Session Press Release on Business Wire October 19, 2020 01:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time WESTMINSTER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tomorrow, Tuesday the 20th at 3:30 pm EDT, the CEO of Inspire Brands Paul Brown speaks on innovation and lessons from Arby’s, Jimmy John’s, Sonic, and other Inspire Brands companies. The Kiosk Association… Read More »

OS Neutral Payment Devices for OS Agnostic Payment Kiosks

OS-Neutral Payment Devices The next generation payment devices really don’t care what OS you are running. You could be running Flex, Linux, Android or Windows for that matter.  You do need an Ethernet or Bluetooth connection though.  Cloud payment systems have come a long way from Avalara and website e-commerce.  Now cloud-based payment unifies mobile pay devices which… Read More »

Turnkey Bill Payment Kiosks

Turnkey Bill Payment Kiosk Solution Olea has released a new bill payment website.   Payment Kiosk by Olea. Excerpt: Kiosks that handle cash and other forms of payment are the most complex of self service kiosk designs. Don’t trust just anyone to design and manufacture your next financial service kiosk.  Led by Olea Kiosks we work with best-in-class partners to… Read More »

Payment Kiosks ISVPay and UCP Provide Omnichannel

ISVPay and Unattended Card Payments (UCP) deliver omnichannel payments for self-service kiosk businesses Background Overview The general synopsis of this partnership is that ISVPay provides FirstData and TSYS backed merchant accounts, they are a billing channel for solutions we recommend often during our consultations and they are very talented at aggregating small ticket transactions to save kiosk operators… Read More »

PCI Kiosk White Paper – Payment Processor

The Value of Payment Gateways for Kiosks When a merchant wants to accept payments through their unattended kiosk, they are faced with many processing choices and industry complexities.  Whether forming multiple direct integrations to processors or utilizing one-to-many processing solutions provided by middleware or gateways, kiosk operators and merchants have a lot to consider. A payment integration to… Read More »

Payment Kiosks – PayPal to Acquire TIO Networks

Expands PayPal’s Reach Into the U.S. Bill Payment Channel with More Than 10,000 Supported Billers, 65,000 Over-the-Counter Locations and 900 Operated Kiosks

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Source: corporate.tionetworks.com

Hamed Shahbazi, Chairman and CEO of TIO, remarked, “We founded TIO to make speed and access part of the bill payment experience for the underserved, and we believe that we have created affordable products to serve the needs of all customers. Our mission fits perfectly with PayPal’s vision to democratize money. As part of the PayPal team, we believe we will accelerate our growth through expanded distribution and continue increasing access to more billers and services.”

Retail Market Research IoT Impact 2021 – The Digital Transformation

From Retail Systems IoT Market Research Predictions 2021 Great report from Kinsey listing markets for IoT. It’s hard to argue with RFID checkout and self-checkout payment is growing leaps and bounds. The old stand at cashier model is at or past the tipping point.  They point to cost reductions in the store. Key point for us — Adoption of self-checkout… Read More »

How Popular is Self-Checkout at Supermarkets

Self-Checkout or Not to Self-Checkout? CNN ran an article on “Nobody likes self-checkout”. It made some good points albeit short on any backfill data to support. It hinged on study by an academic and built a negative narrative around that. Covering it ss the only way to make our own balanced viewpoint more balanced. The premise “nobody likes”… Read More »

PSA – ADA Webinar for Retail & Restaurants

Retail and Restaurant ADA Guidelines Noted on kma.global The holidays may have passed, but shopping and dining out in the new year continue for many people, including those with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) Accessibility Standards require retail spaces and restaurants to be accessible, from the accessible route at a site arrival point… Read More »