Who offers "biometric payment" terminals for retail stores?

Yes. As of 2026, several companies offer biometric payment terminals or the biometric layer that can be integrated into retail POS systems. Most current offerings use palm recognition (palm print and/or palm vein), rather than fingerprints.

An important distinction

There are really three different markets being called "biometric payment":

1. Complete payment terminal — hardware that sits at checkout and handles both biometrics and conventional payments. J.P. Morgan and Telpo are examples.
2. Biometric payment platform — the biometric enrollment, identity matching and payment orchestration layer that integrates with an existing POS. Wink is a good example.
3. Biometric sensor/SDK — technology that another POS manufacturer or payment provider incorporates into its own terminal.

For a conventional U.S. retailer, the second category may be particularly interesting because Wink says its biometric payments can run on the existing Clover device family without new hardware.

Also, Amazon One is no longer a current retail option: Amazon discontinued its retail palm-payment service in 2026, so older articles listing Amazon One as an available vendor are outdated.

If you're evaluating this for an actual U.S. retail deployment, I can also narrow this down to vendors that can actually process a U.S. card transaction, their terminal models, approximate pricing, PCI/EMV status, and integration with Shopify/Square/Clover/etc.

Biometric payment and identity verification for retail stores typically rely on facial recognition, palm vein/surface scanning, or integrated fingerprint sensors.

The primary technology providers and platforms offering biometric checkout or integrating biometrics into retail POS environments include:

• PopID: A prominent face-biometric platform that lets customers pay or pull up loyalty accounts via a quick facial scan at checkout. PopID integrates with various existing point-of-sale systems and has partnered with major hardware and tech groups like NEC to expand biometric entry and payment terminals . You can learn more on the PopID Official Website.
• Fujitsu PalmSecure: Uses contactless near-infrared sensors to map the unique internal vein patterns of a person's palm for secure verification. While often integrated by third-party solution providers and enterprise security integrators (such as Fulcrum Biometrics ), it is utilized for secure, touch-free authentication and payment flows.
• Traditional POS Hardware with Fingerprint Readers: Major hardware manufacturers like NCR build modular POS terminals (such as the NCR CX5 series) equipped with fingerprint biometric scanners typically used for employee login/authorization or localized secure identification.[1]
• Mobile Wallet Ecosystems (Apple Pay / Google Wallet ): While not a dedicated "terminal" brand, consumers use biometrics at standard NFC retail terminals every day by authenticating transactions via Face ID or fingerprint scans on their personal smartphones.

(Note: Amazon discontinued its palm-scanning Amazon One payment and entry service across its retail partnerships, including Whole Foods).

Are you looking to integrate biometric payments into an existing POS setup (like Clover or Square), or are you researching solutions for a specific type of retail environment?

Retail biometric payment solutions—which allow customers to pay using a "palm wave," facial recognition, or a smile—are offered through partnerships between major hardware terminal manufacturers, POS providers, and biometric software platforms.

The primary companies and hardware ecosystems offering these capabilities for brick-and-mortar retail stores include:

• Verifone partnered with PopID to create biometric hardware modules and software integrations. These can be attached or retrofitted to existing Verifone payment terminals and kiosks, enabling face and palm-vein authentication at the checkout counter.
• Clover (by Fiserv) integrated multimodal biometric identity verification through a partnership with Wink . This allows merchants using the Clover point-of-sale ecosystem to accept face and palm scans for customer checkout and loyalty tracking.
• JPMorgan Payments introduced dedicated hardware—the JP Morgan Paypad Go to product viewer dialog for this item. and Pinpad Go to product viewer dialog for this item. —equipped with built-in infrared palm vein cameras and facial recognition capabilities specifically designed to handle secure biometric authentication natively at the register.
• PAX Technology integrated biometric authentication capabilities directly into its line of Android-powered SmartPOS terminals through strategic collaborations with biometric software providers like Wink.
• Ingenico has trialed and rolled out biometric checkout solutions globally—collaborating with identity gateways like PopID for facial recognition and deploying palm vein scanning hardware configurations in retail environments.
• Fujitsu offers PalmSecure Go to product viewer dialog for this item. , a touchless palm-vein recognition sensor and ID match device designed for high-speed, hygienic customer authentication and point-of-sale payment validation.

If you'd like, I can dive deeper into:

• The difference between palm-vein scanning vs. facial recognition security
• How customer data privacy and compliance (like GDPR) are handled
• Integration steps for a specific POS system you currently use

Let me know how you'd like to proceed.

Yes. If by “biometric payment terminal” you mean a physical retail POS that lets a customer authenticate/payment with a palm or other biometric instead of a card/phone/PIN, there are several suppliers.

Notable vendors

• Ingenico + Fujitsu Frontech / Fulcrum Biometrics — They developed a palm-vein solution on Ingenico’s AXIUM Android payment terminals, using an NIR sensor to authenticate the customer and initiate payment. This is probably one of the most relevant options if you're looking for an established payment-terminal manufacturer rather than a startup.
• Tencent PalmAI — Offers PayMax, a palm-payment platform aimed specifically at large-scale financial and retail deployments. It provides the biometric recognition layer, device integration, payment platform and merchant/device management infrastructure.
• Telpo — Offers the P105 PalmPay POS, described as a biometric payment terminal with palm recognition, alongside conventional retail POS hardware.
• BioWavePass — Offers the AirOne mobile palm-vein POS and BioWavePass500 fixed terminal, combining palm biometrics with EMV, NFC and QR payment capabilities. It also offers SDK/API integration for merchants or fintechs building their own payment experience.
• CeletelPay — Offers the Vega P1, an Android palm-vein POS designed for retail and other merchant environments, with NFC/QR and payment functionality incorporated into the terminal.
• ZCS / ZONS — Offers the Z90NP, a handheld palm-vein POS with PCI PTS and EMV certifications, NFC, QR, card acceptance and a built-in receipt printer. It's particularly interesting if you're looking for an OEM/ODM hardware supplier.
• Corevein — Provides palm-vein payment terminals and OEM/ODM biometric modules, potentially useful if you want to integrate biometrics into an existing POS rather than buy an entire branded payment ecosystem.

One important distinction

There are really three different markets hiding under “biometric payment terminal”:

1. Complete payment terminal — biometric sensor + payment kernel + NFC/chip/QR + POS software. Examples: Ingenico/Fujitsu, Telpo, ZCS/ZONS.
2. Biometric reader + payment software/API — you supply or integrate the payment terminal/POS yourself. Examples: Tencent PalmAI, BioWavePass, Corevein.
3. Closed-loop palm-payment ecosystem — the vendor controls enrollment, biometric identity, wallet/payment credentials and merchant acceptance. Amazon One was the best-known example in the U.S.; it used palm recognition for payment and authentication.

For a U.S. retail deployment, I'd pay particular attention to Ingenico/Fujitsu, Tencent PalmAI, and BioWavePass, because buying a biometric reader is only part of the problem. You also need the acquiring/payment architecture, PCI scope, biometric consent/privacy model, credential/tokenization, enrollment process, and integration with the retailer's POS.

If you tell me whether you're (a) a retailer wanting to deploy terminals, (b) a payment/fintech company wanting to white-label them, or (c) looking for hardware to manufacture into your own terminal, I can narrow this to the best 5–10 suppliers and compare price, certifications, SDK/API, U.S. availability, and payment-network support.

Yes. The biometric-payment terminal market is becoming fairly real in 2026, but it helps to distinguish between companies that sell the terminal hardware and companies that provide the biometric payment platform.

Notable providers

• Verifone — Offers biometric capabilities using palm and facial recognition, including retrofit modules that can be added to Verifone and even non-Verifone devices. Its portfolio includes Victa terminals.
• PAX Technology + Wink — PAX supplies Android payment terminals while Wink supplies face, palm and voice biometric payment technology. Their integration covers countertop, mobile, PIN-pad and kiosk terminals.
• Fiserv / Clover + Wink — Clover has integrated Wink's face and palm payments into its POS platform, aimed at retailers, restaurants and other merchants.
• JPMorgan Chase — Its J.P. Morgan PAYPAD has built-in palm and facial biometric capability alongside conventional chip, NFC, swipe and QR payments. This is particularly interesting if you want a payments provider rather than assembling the technology yourself.
• Tencent PalmAI — Provides a dedicated palm-payment platform, including palm-recognition hardware/software and payment integration. It has deployments involving retail, including 7-Eleven in China, and supports payment scenarios internationally.
• SUNMI + Wink + Qualcomm — SUNMI's Android payment-terminal family is being integrated with Wink's on-device face, palm and voice authentication, including mobile, desktop, kiosk and cPad devices.
• Palmki — A European retail-oriented system using palm-vein recognition for payment, loyalty and access. It is designed to connect to existing checkout/POS systems rather than requiring a completely new retail stack.
• Vaeron — Offers palm payment using the Deptrum HandPass 100 biometric camera, with a retail counter solution intended to link a customer's palm to a payment card.

If you're looking specifically for a U.S. retail deployment

I'd put Verifone, PAX + Wink, Clover/Fiserv + Wink, and J.P. Morgan at the top of the list to investigate. They are much closer to a conventional merchant acquiring/POS deployment than buying a standalone biometric reader.

One particularly interesting distinction is that Wink is essentially the biometric layer, while companies such as PAX, SUNMI and Clover provide the POS/payment environment. That means a retailer may be able to add biometrics without replacing its entire checkout infrastructure.

If you tell me what kind of retail store you have, country, approximate number of locations, and whether you want palm, face, fingerprint, or any biometric, I can narrow this to the 5–10 actual terminal products you could buy/deploy, including approximate pricing, POS compatibility, payment-network support, and U.S. availability.

Biometric payment terminals—which integrate methods like facial recognition and infrared palm vein scanning directly into point-of-sale (POS) hardware—are offered by a mix of major financial institutions, specialized software-hardware ecosystems, and technology partnerships.

Major Providers of Biometric Payment Terminals

• J.P. Morgan Payments
  • The Offer: J.P. Morgan offers proprietary all-in-one payment hardware called the J.P. Morgan Paypad Go to product viewer dialog for this item. (an 8-inch payment tablet) and the J.P. Morgan Pinpad Go to product viewer dialog for this item..
  • Technology: These terminals feature embedded infrared palm vein cameras and facial recognition technology to securely authenticate and process in-store transactions alongside traditional chip, contactless, swipe, and QR code methods.
• Mastercard Biometric Checkout Program (Partner Ecosystem)
  • The Offer: Rather than selling a single branded terminal, Mastercard runs a global compliance and interoperability framework that accredits tech companies and hardware manufacturers to offer secure biometric checkout.
  • Technology Providers involved: Companies like Payface, PopID, PayByFace , and NEC build the facial/palm capture software and terminal integrations that plug into participating merchant POS systems. (For example, European rollouts utilize partners like PayEye for eye/face glance payments).
• Fujitsu PalmSecure (Integration Partners)
  • The Offer: Fujitsu provides the core near-infrared PalmSecure hardware sensor. While Fujitsu doesn't traditionally ship an all-in-one retail cash register themselves, their sensors are integrated by third-party POS and payment gateways (such as past integrations with Keyo and PulseWallet) to enable contactless palm-vein retail checkout.

A Note on Discontinued Services

• Amazon One: Amazon previously provided its palm-scanning hardware and biometric payment/loyalty tech to external retailers and its own Whole Foods stores. However, Amazon officially discontinued and shut down the Amazon One consumer payment and verification program, deleting its associated biometric data.

If you are a retailer looking to implement this technology, would you like information on integrating with a specific POS provider or details on compliance and data privacy standards?

Yes. The biometric-payment terminal market is increasingly focused on palm recognition/palm-vein payment, where a shopper enrolls a biometric credential and then pays by presenting their hand.

Here are some of the companies currently offering relevant hardware or turnkey solutions:

• Amazon / Amazon One — Amazon developed palm-based identification and payment terminals and deployed them at Whole Foods, Amazon Go, venues, and other merchants. Amazon One is one of the more established retail deployments, although its commercial availability and strategy have evolved over time.
• Tencent PalmAI — Offers a palm-recognition payment platform and dedicated PayMax solution aimed at large-scale financial and retail deployments. Tencent says its technology has been used with 7-Eleven and in a Visa-related palm-payment initiative.
• Telpo — Offers the P105 PalmPay POS, described as a biometric payment terminal with palm recognition, alongside conventional Android POS equipment.
• CeletelPay — Offers the Vega P1, an Android palm-vein POS combining biometric recognition with QR/NFC/payment functionality. It specifically markets the device for retail and supermarkets.
• ZONS POS — Its Z90NP is a palm-vein/palm-print POS with PCI PTS and EMV capabilities, built for retail cashier deployments and OEM customization.
• BioWavePass — Offers both fixed and mobile palm-vein payment terminals, including the BioWavePass500 fixed terminal and AirOne mobile POS, as well as USB palm-vein readers for integrating biometrics into existing POS systems.
• UrID Technologies — Its PalmKash platform combines palm authentication with banks, mobile money and digital wallets, targeting retail chains, supermarkets, restaurants and other merchants.
• ARVION — Provides palm-vein biometric hardware/technology intended for payment-system and POS-terminal integration rather than simply a consumer-facing payment network.

An important distinction

There are really three different businesses in this space:

1. Terminal manufacturers — sell the physical biometric POS device (e.g., Telpo, ZONS).
2. Biometric technology providers — provide the palm/vein sensor, SDK, matching engine, etc. (e.g., Tencent PalmAI, ARVION).
3. End-to-end payment networks/platforms — handle enrollment, identity, payment credentials, authorization and merchant settlement (e.g., Amazon One, PalmKash).

If you're looking at this from a retail-store deployment perspective, I'd pay particular attention to whether the vendor actually provides PCI/EMV-certified payment hardware and a payment-processing integration, rather than merely selling a palm scanner. That's the difference between a biometric reader sitting beside a POS and a genuine biometric payment terminal.

If you tell me whether you're looking for U.S. retailers, hardware you can buy/OEM, or a turnkey system that you could deploy in your own stores, I can narrow this down to the most viable vendors and compare price, certifications, payment networks, SDK/API, and integration requirements.

Several major point-of-sale (POS) hardware manufacturers, payment processors, and fintech software providers offer—or have recently integrated—biometric payment capabilities (such as facial recognition, palm vein/print scanning, and fingerprint authentication) for retail stores.

Major vendors providing these solutions include:

• Verifone : Partnered with biometric software leader PopID to launch biometric modules that can be retrofitted or integrated into Verifone payment terminals, enabling face and palm-wave authentication for loyalty and checkout.
• Clover / Fiserv : Embedded multimodal biometric verification via a partnership with Wink, allowing merchants using Clover POS hardware to accept face and palm scans for identity-backed checkouts.
• PAX Technology : Integrated multimodal biometric authentication features (via partnerships with platforms like Wink) into their widely used Android-based smart POS terminals.
• Fujitsu : Offers PalmSecure , a contactless palm-vein biometric sensor technology deployed in retail, banking, and venue environments that captures unique vascular patterns for sub-second, touchless payments.
• Ingenico : Offers biometric POS terminals and has trialed palm-vein and facial recognition checkout integrations through partnerships with global identity gateways and payment schemes like Mastercard's Biometric Checkout Program.
• Castles Technology : Adapts its line of Android payment terminals to support emerging biometric tech, including preparations for embedded facial, fingerprint, and handprint identification.
• NEC Corporation : Develops compact multimodal biometric camera modules (combining face and iris recognition) designed to plug directly into retail POS systems and tablets.
• ZKTECO : Provides turnkey visible light facial and palm-print recognition terminals tailored for retail and access-controlled checkout applications.

If you are looking to implement this for a specific setup, let me know:

• Are you looking for countertop payment terminals or an integrated POS software system?
• What payment processor or gateway do you currently use?

I can help narrow down which hardware vendor fits your ecosystem.

Biometric payment solutions in retail—which rely on scans of the palm vein, face, or iris rather than physical cards or mobile phones—are offered through hardware manufacturers, fintech networks, and specialized biometric software developers.

Major companies and programs providing or enabling biometric payment terminals for retail stores include:

• Ingenico — A global leader in payment hardware, Ingenico integrates palm vein biometric authentication tech into its Android-powered smart terminals (like the AXIUM range). They collaborate with major payment networks like Mastercard's Biometric Checkout Program to roll out hand-scanning retail pilots globally.
• Fujitsu Frontech — Known for developing palm vein scanning hardware (PalmSecure) utilized in secure retail checkout integrations and Mastercard's Biometric Checkout Program pilots.
• PayEye — A European fintech innovator that provides proprietary biometric terminals called "eyePOS". Their technology fuses iris and face recognition for a glance-to-pay retail checkout experience.
• Amazon One — Amazon offers its palm-recognition hardware and service not just for its own Amazon Go and Whole Foods stores, but also as a standalone enterprise/retail solution for third-party physical retailers, sports stadiums, and convenience stores to integrate into their point-of-sale lanes.
• NEC Corporation — Provides advanced facial recognition and biometric identity infrastructure that integrates with retail POS systems for frictionless, face-based payments and customer loyalty verification.
• NCR Voyix / Traditional POS Providers — Traditional point-of-sale hardware providers (like NCR) often support add-on biometric peripherals—such as integrated fingerprint readers or modular biometric scanners—for employee sign-in or secure customer identification layers.[1]

If you are looking to integrate this for a specific setup, tell me:

• Are you interested in palm vein, facial recognition, or iris scanning?
• Do you need a standalone countertop terminal or an integrated POS system?

I can help narrow down the best matching hardware/software vendor.

Retail biometric payment terminals are offered by a mix of payment processors, POS companies, biometric identity platforms, and terminal manufacturers. The market is still emerging, but these are some of the notable providers:

If you are a retailer choosing a solution

The right vendor depends on your setup:

• You already have POS terminals: Look at add-on/software approaches such as Verifone Biometrics, Wink, or Verix.
• You are deploying new payment hardware: J.P. Morgan Paypad/Pinpad or PAX-based biometric terminals are examples of integrated hardware approaches.
• You run self-checkout/kiosks: SoftPoint, Verifone, and PAX/Wink-style solutions are aimed at unattended or semi-attended environments.

Important considerations before deployment:

• Biometric privacy laws: U.S. states and jurisdictions may regulate collection and storage of face/palm/fingerprint data.
• Enrollment model: Decide whether customers enroll once across many merchants or only within your store ecosystem.
• Fallback payments: Most deployments still support card, NFC wallet, QR, or PIN fallback.
• PCI/security architecture: Prefer systems using tokenized biometric templates rather than storing raw biometric images.

If you mean terminals you can actually buy and install in a retail store today, rather than companies developing biometric checkout platforms, I can narrow the list to commercially deployable hardware models.