Global Payments

Overview

Genius is the brand under which Global Payments, Inc. of Atlanta is unifying its POS businesses, including the cloud restaurant and retail POS products it gained with Heartland^[16]. Global Payments states that it has cloud-based POS capabilities for restaurant and retail and is using its distribution channels to extend Genius globally^[16].

The parent company has been reshaping itself: it sold Heartland Payroll Solutions in September 2025 and completed its acquisition of Worldpay in January 2026, a transaction that enlarges the merchant base to which Genius can be sold^[16]. Global Payments’ POS products are sold with its own payment processing.

Public product documentation for Genius restaurant POS is thinner than for restaurant-only vendors, and the Heartland restaurant site blocked automated access during this review, so features and prices could not be checked on the vendor’s pages. Buyers should request written quotes covering software, hardware and processing.

Global Payments features

• Online gateway and acquiring
• Multi-country acquiring
• Integrated payments for software vendors
• Enterprise and SMB channels
• Enterprise and SMB acquiring
• Integrated payments for software platforms
• In-store and online acceptance
• Cloud-based restaurant POS

Global Payments pricing

Quote-based.

Global Payments strengths and limitations

Appears in

• Largest Fintech Companies (2026) #11
• Best Merchant Services in 2026 #11
• Best Payment Gateways in 2026 #6
• Best Restaurant POS Systems in 2026 #11

Global Payments alternatives and competitors

Alternatives to Global Payments: companies ranked in the same lists.

• Adyen
• SSquare
• Clover
• ANAuthorize.net
• Helcim
• Stripe Atlas
• TToast
• PayPal
• SSpotOn
• Lightspeed Retail
• NNMI
• Payment Depot