Upstart Flint taps smartphone cameras for mobile payments By Heather Clancy
Summary: By cutting out the need for separate card reader, the startup hopes to make it simpler for small businesses to test mobile transactions.
Many of the mobile payment solutions for accepting credit cards on-the-go rely on separate readers to collect the card information.
A new option from upstart Flint Mobile, which just received $3 million in Series A venture funding, uses your smartphone’s camera instead to scan the card number.
All we need is a single line on a PR that it is associated with FLTT..