2021 RTIH Innovation Awards: Payments shortlist announced
Checkout.com, Divido, Epos Now and ACI are among the nominees in the Payments category at the 2021 RTIH Innovation Awards.
This award recognises payment initiatives that are both innovative and customer and retailer friendly.
We’re looking to reward a project that has the potential to increase a retailer’s competitiveness and effectiveness, and to improve the shopper experience. Bonus points if the project could be considered a first in the market.
2021 shortlist as follows
ACI
ACI’s merchant payment solution, ACI Omni-Commerce, is enabling merchants to meet the demands of digital natives and providing merchants the flexibility, choice, agility and scalability they need.
Checkout.com
Checkout.com’s approach to online payments makes it a trusted provider behind leading online retailers and platforms including H&M and Klarna.
DailyPay
DailyPay has created a platform that does much more than give employees access to their earnings in real-time.
It changes the way money moves between employer and employee, between merchant and shopper, between financial institution and customer. Now money moves faster and smoother, and benefits each participant equally.
Divido
Divido aims to set a new standard for retail finance. For the first time, lenders, merchants and payment partners can control, and seamlessly integrate and configure, a white label, retail finance platform that sits across all geographies and channels to meet the changing needs of consumers at the Point of Sale.
Epos Now
Epos Now’s SmartPos is a Point of Sale device for hospitality and retail businesses that allows them to manage card transactions, take payments and print receipts, all from one device, from anywhere, anytime.
Gr4vy
Gr4vy is a payment orchestration platform built natively in the cloud, whose infrastructure gives retailers the ability to expand and control their payment stack from anywhere.
KICKS/Avensia
Nordic beauty chain KICKS is leveraging the best of both offline and online worlds for an improved and smoother customer journey.
SensePass
The Sensepass platform leverages the power of IoT to enable retailers to seamlessly accept a diverse network of alternative payment methods, including mobile apps, e-wallets and other FinTech services, in order to boost sales, decrease transaction cost and improve the last mile’s user experience.
What’s next?
We will now ask our judging panel to cast their votes and provide their feedback. The winner will be revealed on 8th December at a roundtable discussion/networking event in central London.
Our thanks to the following retail leaders for offering their assistance and expertise this year.
Mike Cadden, IT Director (Sales, Marketing and Customer Services), Office Depot
Hayley Meenan-Wilkin, E-Commerce Manager, Fishpools
Martin Newman, Founder, The Customer First Group
Paula Bobbett, E-Commerce Director, Boots UK
Tiffany Lung, Retail Analyst
Nadine Neatrour, Marketing Director, Selfridges
Simon Curtis, Sales and Marketing Director, PMC Retail
Christine Russo, Digital and Physical Retail Consultant
Gerald Dawson, Business Consultant and Finance Director, The iOutlet and HANX
Sharon Peters, Head Of Technology - Marks and Spencer, HR, Finance, Corporate Services and M&S Bank
Luke Phillips, Head of IT Delivery, Studio Retail
Third time around
Now into their third year, the awards, sponsored by PMC, StoreSpace, Critizr, Marxent, QVALON and Selazar, celebrate global tech innovation in a fast moving omnichannel world.
Stay tuned for more shortlists in the coming days!
