New Verifone Commander products designed expand routes to growth for partners across convenience stores and gas stations;
Offerings let convenience store and fuel retailers consolidate operations onto one cloud-connected footprint;
Verifone collaborates with YouLend to offer financing for Commander products
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Verifone, a global leader in payments and commerce technologies, today announced strategic product enhancements at the NACS Show to drive growth, customer satisfaction and revenue for its convenience and fuel retail partners.
“Fuel and convenience retailers are under pressure from every direction — rising costs, tightening compliance, and customers who expect more from every visit,” said James Hervey, EVP of Petro at Verifone. “Most stations now make the bulk of their profit from what’s inside the store, not from what’s at the pump. That means operators need one system that talks to all of it — sales, inventory, and the customer experience. Commander gives them that system, so they spend less time managing technology and more time running their business.”
The announcement spotlights key pillars of Verifone’s unified ecosystem, which lets convenience and fuel retailers unify their operations under one cloud-connected footprint, is designed to eliminate disjointed point-of-sale hardware.
At the NACS show, Verifone will unveil the following innovations, designed to help businesses advance to the next stage of their payments journey:
- Verifone Commander Convenience: An all-in-one, bundled solution for convenience stores. The solution lets standalone retailers manage complex tasks from lotteries and loyalty integrations to digital age verification all with the same speed, reliability, and security trusted by major global fueling networks without the need for a backroom server.
- Commander Fleet: An integration that puts commercial fleet card acceptance on a single primary point-of-sale (POS) terminal, letting truck stops and consumer fuel stations with diesel islands run fleet and retail payments on one POS platform. Commander Fleet processes fleet cards from major networks like WEX, Comdata, Multi Service, Mudflap, QuikQ and Piston Technologies Inc. alongside every consumer payment type. By eliminating the industry’s need for separate, bulky checkout hardware and overlapping software licenses, it lowers a merchant’s total cost of ownership, reduces employee training times, and speeds lane throughput for commercial drivers. Commander Fleet also brings every transaction into one report, so operators can reconcile fleet and retail sales together instead of pulling data from two systems.
- Commander Capital: A flexible merchant financing program, powered by YouLend, that changes how retailers access operational funding. Rather than navigating rigid underwriting and application processes, Commander Capital auto-qualifies eligible merchants based on active payment volumes and store performance. Approved funds can be deployed in as little as 24 hours to replace store equipment, invest in food service kiosks, or refresh inventory, with automated daily repayments that flex as a small percentage of credit card sales.
“C-stores and gas stations face a unique combination of cash-flow volatility and substantial upfront capital requirements,” said Ted Kirk, U.S. Country Head for YouLend. “By providing working capital to these businesses, YouLend and Verifone help them serve customers, plan for the future, and drive growth.”
Partnerships to Fuel Your Business
The company also announced new partnerships that extend the ecosystem’s capabilities and market reach across the commercial fleet area, including:
Multi Service Fuel Card: With more than 45 years of trucking-industry trust, the Multi Service Fuel Card adds a long-standing, widely accepted trucking fuel card option to the Commander Fleet portfolio, simplifying fuel management for fleet operators.
“As the first live-authorization fuel card for over-the-road commercial fleets, our card carries a long-standing legacy of trust and reliability in the trucking industry,” said Aaron Decker, CEO of Multi Service Fuel Card. “Together with Commander Fleet, acceptance transitions from the pump to the point of sale without added hardware or extra steps. Drivers fuel up. Fleets get real-time visibility. Everyone gets back on the road faster.”
Mudflap: The original cardless fleet payment platform for trucking, bringing hundreds of thousands of commercial drivers to Commander Fleet locations with secure app and card-based payments.
QuikQ: QuikQ is a full-service fuel payment, digital payment and fraud prevention solutions provider. The company’s streamlined approach to transactions reduces fees and creates a more direct, transparent relationship among merchants, carriers and payment providers.
“QuikQ was built on the idea that payments in the trucking industry should be more efficient, more affordable and built around the customer,” said Jon Russell, CEO of QuikQ. “Working with Verifone puts that idea in front of more merchants and drivers. Merchants get fleet acceptance built into technology they already run, and drivers get a faster, simpler stop.”
Piston Technologies Inc.: Brings a new payment network for commercial fleets to Commander Fleet, expanding payment acceptance for fuel retailers serving trucking and logistics companies. The integration lets merchants to accept Piston payments and serve its fleet customers through the Verifone platform they already use.
“We run fleets ourselves, and we built Piston because the solution we needed didn’t exist. Our cardless network connects fleets directly with site owners through Verifone Commander, removing the card and the intermediaries’ fleets have paid for over decades,” said Vikram Sekhon, Co-founder & CEO, Piston Technologies Inc. “Fleets lose fewer gallons to fraud and save more at the pump. Retailers gain commercial volume and the in-store spend that comes with it.”
Verifone will have a strong presence at the NACS Show 2026, speaking (in TruAge booth) on “Can Self-Checkout Sell Age-Restricted Products Safely?” and hosting live in-booth solution demonstrations at the Verifone booth #C5924.
About Commander
Verifone Commander is the integrated platform built for the unique demands of fuel and convenience retail. It is trusted by more fuel operators across the United States than any other company, with more than 55,000 active sites running on the platform.
About Verifone
Verifone is a leading global payments technology provider trusted by the world’s top brands. Verifone powers the boundless payments grid, enabling distinctive commerce experiences for merchants, fintech companies, and financial institutions wherever commerce happens. By combining a flexible platform, an open ecosystem of 2,500+ integrations, and four decades of payments expertise, Verifone eliminates payment complexity and expands what’s possible across every payment channel. For more information, visit www.verifone.com
Contacts:
Lisa Lanspery
Verifone
lisa.lanspery@verifone.com
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