Celero Insights

  • #InThisTogether: State Reopening Guidelines

    #InThisTogether: State Reopening Guidelines

    In March, we launched a set of COVID-19 resources on our website, to help small businesses navigate the challenges of the pandemic. These resources include our own COVID-19 Survival Kit, a set of tools and technologies for diversifying payments and operations, as well as a series of educational webinars from the Celero team and its…

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  • Life in the Time of COVID-19: One Industry Was Ready

    Life in the Time of COVID-19: One Industry Was Ready

    Kristia Poppe June 3, 2020 The payments industry has been central to business innovation for the last generation, one defined as the technology revolution. From the dawn of the internet, with ecommerce as the driver for payment gateways, and the advent of the smartphone, a vehicle for mobile payments, to wireless developments like near field…

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  • Visa News: Signature Optional for All Merchants

    Visa News: Signature Optional for All Merchants

    Visa is extending the option to require signature capture and validation for all merchants, globally.

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  • Jones on Digital Transactions: Celero’s Insights

    Jones on Digital Transactions: Celero’s Insights

    In a just-published article in respected payments journal, Digital Transactions, Celero Commerce founder and CEO Kevin Jones sits down with the magazine’s Kevin Woodward to discuss the current state of the payments industry nearly two months into the COVID-19-driven economic crisis.

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  • #InThisTogether: Kentucky Distillery’s Initiative

    Small businesses around the country are showing signs of resilience and innovation, as they always do in the face of adversity. When they are able to combine their strength and ideas with a community-driven mission, special things happen.

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  • Kevin Jones Launches Podcast: “Because We Had To”

    Kevin Jones Launches Podcast: “Because We Had To”

    Hosted by Celero founder Kevin Jones and longtime friend and business partner Brian Castle, Because We Had To is a podcast for the dreamers among us, explained Castle. “Kevin and I have been working together off and on and collaborating on various projects for more than 20 years,” he explained.  “Right now, we’re doing a…

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  • InThisTogether: Support Local for Maximum Impact

    InThisTogether: Support Local for Maximum Impact

    Kevin Jones April 21, 2020 You often hear us in the payments and financial technology industries as we implore you to shop local, supporting your community’s small businesses that include restaurants, bars and breweries, salons, and boutique shops. Too often, this imperative is misunderstood as a feel-good marketing campaign.

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  • Celero Cares: Aid for Nashville Hospitality Workers

    Celero Cares: Aid for Nashville Hospitality Workers

    While many across our country and world are suffering from the outbreak of COVID-19 last month, many of our loved ones, friends, and neighbors in the Nashville area are still suffering from the deadly tornadoes that ravaged central Tennessee in the early hours of March 3.

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