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Cayan

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Type
  
Private

Website
  
www.cayan.com

Cayan

Industry
  
Payments, mobile payments

Founded
  
Boston, Massachusetts (1998)

Headquarters
  
Boston, MA, United States

Key people
  
Henry Helgeson (CEO and Founder)

Cayan (formerly Merchant Warehouse) is a provider of payment technologies and merchant services. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company provides technology for physical stores, mobile locations and webshops.

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History

Cayan was founded under the name Merchant Warehouse in 1998. The company's technology solution, the Genius Platform, offers merchants "one integrated platform [that accepts] chip-and-PIN cards and [handles] mobile payments in the future."

In 2013, Cayan opened a technology development center in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Product

Cayan offers payment solutions for online and brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as point-of-sale (POS) developers, value-added resellers (VARs) and agents.

In addition to the Genius Customer Engagement Platform, other products from Cayan include:

  • Credit card terminals
  • Mobile applications
  • Wireless terminals
  • IP terminals
  • PIN pads
  • Credit card software
  • Check readers
  • Credit card printers
  • Processing gateways
  • Awards

    Cayan has a vendor rating of "A+" with the Better Business Bureau. Cayan has also received a variety of industry awards, including:

  • Boston Business Journal Pacesetters Program: Boston's Fastest-Growing Private Companies (for six consecutive years)
  • Business Solutions Magazine: Best Channel Vendor
  • Deloitte's Technology Fast 500™
  • Inc: Hire Power Award
  • MITX: Best Digital Innovation from a Large Enterprise
  • Stevie Awards: Best New Product or Service - Business-to-Business Products
  • References

    Cayan Wikipedia