Glance Technologies Inc. (CSE:GET.CN) (OTCQB:GLNNF) (FKT:GJT) is pleased to announce that Glance Pay, the mobile payments solution that makes payments and rewards simpler and more secure for merchants and users across Canada, has gone live in the United States.

Glance Pay users in the U.S. now enjoy fully operational USD mobile payments and customer support when visiting any one of our growing list of partner businesses there.  Glance Pay currently has 14 signed locations across California, with merchants ranging from restaurants and food trucks, to salons and service providers.  A number of those locations have been launched this week and more are planned soon. 

With the U.S. launch, Glance Pay is entering a mobile payments marketplace which, according to market research giant Forrester, is projected to see mobile payment volumes reach $282 billion by the year 2021, tripling in size over 2016. Forrester’s research found that U.S. mobile payment volumes have been growing at a compound annual rate of 20 per cent each year.1

“The U.S. is one of the largest marketplaces in the world and we are thrilled to now be live there,” says Desmond Griffin, CEO of Glance. “We know the efficiency and customer retention our technology can bring to all kinds of businesses, and we are focused on putting that value in as many hands as possible.”

The Glance Pay mobile payments platform has quickly become a leading choice for merchants in restaurants, retail and more, thanks to its compelling competitive advantages in customer service and satisfaction, and to the efficiency, insights and marketing tools it offers business owners. With more than 350 signed locations across Canada and the United States, Glance Pay is a high-security platform offering exclusive deals and rewards for users, while rewarding merchants with faster, more flexible transactions, and a range of new tools and advantages.

About Glance Technologies Inc.

Glance owns and operates Glance Pay, a streamlined payment system that revolutionizes how smartphone users choose where to shop, order goods and services, make payments, access digital receipts, redeem digital deals, earn great rewards and interact with merchants. Glance offers targeted in-app marketing, geo-targeted digital coupons, customer feedback, in-merchant messaging and custom rewards programs. The Glance Pay mobile payment system consists of proprietary technology, which includes user apps available for free downloads in iOS (Apple) and Android formats, merchant manager apps, a large-scale technology hosting environment with sophisticated anti-fraud technology and lightning-fast payment processing.  Glance has also recently purchased an end-to-end blockchain solution and is working on a rewards-based cryptocurrency intended to be integrated into the Glance Pay app.

1 Parisi, Danny. “Mobile payments volume in US will triple by 2021: report.” Retail Dive. Feb. 6, 2017. https://www.retaildive.com/ex/mobilecommercedaily/mobile-payments-volume-in-us-will-triple-by-2021report