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Tech News: Birdeye releases payments app

ByChris Gaetano
August 26, 2022 8:30 AM

Birdeye releases a payments solution; Sovos acquires TOC Biometrics; Avalara and Xero are cooperating on an automated sales tax solution; Fathom is acquired by The Access Group; and other news and updates from the world of accounting technology.

Birdeye releases Birdeye Payments

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Birdeye, a reputation and customer experience platform for small businesses, is expanding into the payments space with the release of its Birdeye Payments solution. Users can collect one-time and recurring payments through credit cards, debit cards, ACH and mobile wallets including Apple Pay and Google Pay; integrate with popular accounting systems like QuickBooks and FreshBooks, as well as industry-specific applications to reconcile accounts and trigger text-based payment links; and view transactions, process refunds and download account activity. Birdseye Payments is included at no additional cost for current users of Birdeye's reputation and customer experience platform.

Sovos acquires TOC Biometrics

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Sovos, a tax compliance software provider, has acquired the Chilean biometrics firm TOC Biometrics to bolster its own security (see the full story). The company produces software that uses facial recognition technology and fingerprint scanning to verify people's identities and facilitate secure e-signatures. The ever-increasing digitization of the business world has prompted rising concerns about protecting personal information and verifying people's identities, which motivated the acquisition.

Avalara and Xero join forces

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Avalara, a tax software solutions company, and cloud-based accounting solution developer Xero have teamed up to create an automated sales tax solution (see the full story). Specific details on the project are scarce, since beta testing has not yet begun, but the end product  will use Avalara's tax content database and sales tax calculation engines, as well as Xero's ability to apply correct tax treatments to invoices and state-based reporting.

Fathom acquired by The Access Group

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Fathom, a popular reporting, analysis and forecasting software used by many accountants, has been acquired by business management solutions company The Access Group (see the full story). Fathom's technology will eventually be paired with The Access Group's Workspace platform.

Partnerships and integrations

InComm Payments, a payment solutions provider, has selected BillingPlatform, an enterprise monetization system, as its enterprise billing solution. The decision was made on the basis of BillingPlatform's data model, interface and accessibility to nontechnical users.
Chris Gaetano
Technology Editor, Accounting Today
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