Leapfactor, a software firm and business apps provider, has selected ROAM’s mCommerce platform to integrate mobile payment acceptance into its vertical-specific business applications.

A part of Ingenico Mobile Solutions, ROAM operates as a mobile commerce platform provider and offers secure, cost effective and powerful mobile point-of-sale solutions (PoS) to merchants.

Leapfactor will use ROAM’s APIs for payment integration within its applications and white label ROAM’s secure mobile card readers, thereby allowing Leapfactor’s customers to create a seamless experience that extends their brand across the entire solution.

ROAM’s technology will allow Leapfactor to tailor its business applications for specific uses and business requirements, creating highly advanced mobile point of sale (mPOS) solutions for the direct selling, pharma/beauty, retail and financial services industries.

ROAM COO and Ingenico Group mobile payment EVP Jean-Marc Thienpont said: "Leapfactor’s robust applications and deep understanding of key vertical markets make them an ideal technology partner for ROAM and Ingenico Group, and we are thrilled to be working with them.

"This partnership validates our agnostic positioning in the mobile payment ecosystem, and it is increasingly important for us to team up with leading technology partners who can use our APIs to integrate payment acceptance into industry-specific business applications."

Ingenico Mobile Solutions provides secure, enterprise-level mobile Point of Sale (PoS) solutions to over 100,000 merchants across the globe.