Block, Inc.

Square, Inc.

J Bryan Scott

Christopher Russell Clark

Shawn Morel

Eric Monti

Grace Huey Chen

Edward Ruder

Mehdi Mulani

James Puls

Ariana Poursartip

Jevin C Bhorania

Raymond Knight Mason, Iii

Grace Chen

Christopher R Clark

In an example, a method can include receiving, at a merchant-facing portion of a payment system, data from a customer-facing portion of the payment system indicating a payment transaction between a merchant and a customer, wherein there is a physical connection between the portions; determining that the payment system is unable to access a remote payment service system via an external network; determining that the payment transaction is not preapproved for payment by the remote payment service system; storing the payment transaction on the merchant-facing portion even though the payment transaction is not preapproved; determining that the payment system is able to access the remote payment service system via the external network; and transmitting transaction information including the stored payment transaction to the remote payment service system, via the external network, for processing the stored payment transaction.

Transaction processing by multiple devices

Techniques associated with a customer-facing device and a merchant-facing device are described herein. In an example, a system can include a customer-facing device configured with a customer application that is executable on an operating system of the customer-facing device to (i) display information to a customer and (ii) receive input from the customer, wherein the customer-facing device includes a payment reader to read payment data from a payment instrument in association with a payment transaction between the customer and a merchant, and a merchant-facing device configured with a merchant application that is executable on an operating system of the merchant-facing device to (i) display information to the merchant and (ii) receive input from the merchant. In at least one example, the customer-facing device and the merchant-facing device can communicate to process, at least in part, the payment transaction associated with the payment instrument via a remote payment service system.

Method, systems, and apparatus for a method of processing a payment transaction using a mobile device of a merchant. In one aspect, determining the mobile device does not have a connection to an external network; receiving data indicating a payment transaction between a customer and the merchant; determining whether the payment transaction should be stored, where the determining is based on a risk heuristic model that considers one or more of the following: a number of already stored transactions, a value of the payment transaction, a total value, where the total value is a sum of the value of the payment transaction and values of one or more already stored transactions, and risk factors associated with the customer; and based at least on the determination, storing the payment transaction on the mobile device for future processing.

Storing and forwarding payment transactions

Method, systems, and apparatus for processing a payment transaction includes determining that a network connection between a first destination in a payment system and a second destination in a payment system does not satisfy a latency threshold; receiving data indicating a payment transaction between a customer and a merchant; determining whether the payment transaction should be stored, where the determining is based on a risk algorithm model that considers risk factors associated with data regarding the payment transaction, risk factors associated with data regarding the customer, and risk factors associated with data regarding the merchant; if the payment transaction should be stored: storing the payment transaction for future processing; displaying an indication that the payment transaction has been successfully processed; if the payment transaction should not be stored: attempting to send a request for authorization for the payment transaction at a payment service system included in the payment system.

Predicting approval of transactions

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J Bryan Scott