{"id":15216,"date":"2015-10-30T17:27:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T00:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/?p=15216"},"modified":"2015-10-30T17:27:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T00:27:20","slug":"amazon-register-to-be-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2015\/10\/30\/amazon-register-to-be-discontinued\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Register to be Discontinued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15217\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Amazon-Local-Register-Card-Reader.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon Local Register Card Reader\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/register.amazon.com\/help\/201962930?ref_=pe_2202800_154421320\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Effective October 30, 2015, we are no longer accepting new customers. Existing customers can continue to use Amazon Register until February 1, 2016, when we will discontinue to service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazon Register (formerly Amazon Local Register) was launched back in August, 2014 with\u00a0promotional offer of 1.75% on swiped transactions until 12\/31\/2015. Amazon promised to deliver\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/localregister.amazon.com\/help\/201854220\/emv-coming-soon\" target=\"_blank\">EMV Card Reader<\/a> later in 2015. Alas, that day will never come.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15218\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Amazon-Local-Register-Discontinued.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon-Local-Register-Discontinued\" width=\"1680\" height=\"1884\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Payment processing business has been proven to be challenging even for <a href=\"http:\/\/squareup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Square<\/a>, which reported of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/square-inc-reports-another-loss-as-ipo-roadshow-approaches-1445888237\" target=\"_blank\">$131.5 million loss on $892.2 million in sales<\/a> in the first nine month of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>37prime uses both Square and Amazon Register. The later is the currently preferred payment processor thanks to its promotional offer of 1.75% transaction fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon: Effective October 30, 2015, we are no longer accepting new customers. Existing customers can continue to use Amazon Register until February 1, 2016, when we will discontinue to service. Amazon Register (formerly Amazon Local Register) was launched back in August, 2014 with\u00a0promotional offer of 1.75% on swiped transactions until 12\/31\/2015. Amazon promised to deliver\u00a0EMV &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2015\/10\/30\/amazon-register-to-be-discontinued\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon Register to be Discontinued&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[301,307,779,1022,1120,2796,2800,936],"class_list":["post-15216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-register","tag-credit-card","tag-emv","tag-finance","tag-square","tag-squareup","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-3Xq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}