CITCON Achieves Oracle Validated Integration with Xstore Expertise for QR-Based Wallet Payment Solutions

Oracle Partners with CITCON to Enable Acceptance of PayPal, Venmo, WeChat Pay, UnionPay, and Alipay for Xstore Customers.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CITCON, a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced that it has achieved Oracle Validated Integration with Xstore Expertise for its integration of the CITCON payment gateway solution.

This new integration by CITCON helps to quickly and cost-effectively enable Oracle Xstore merchants to accept mobile wallets, including PayPal, Venmo, WeChat Pay and AliPay on existing POS systems. This will enable consumers to pay using contactless technology, a trend that has and will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years. It also enables a critical payment option for certain shopper segments who prefer to use mobile wallets to make payments.

Expertise is a core tenet of the modernized Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) program and allows Oracle partners to highlight their capabilities in a focused area. Ultimately, Expertise is designed to make it easy for customers to identify partners who can deliver quality solutions and minimize risk for their specific needs.

In order to achieve the Oracle Validated Integration with Xstore Expertise, partners like CITCON must meet a series of qualifiers, including demonstrating that the integration performs as documented. Learn more about Expertise, including viewing the complete Expertise Catalog, at www.oracle.com/partnernetwork/expertise.

Founded in 2015, CITCON is a leading payment technology company, building a payment infrastructure that enables global merchants to accept payments from billions of mobile wallet consumers through web, mobile and in-store channels around the world. Mobile payment provides a more user-friendly, secure, and safer contactless shopping and payment experience for both consumers and merchants compared to other payment options. CITCON’s secure, scalable and open system allows businesses to quickly and easily accept domestic and international mobile wallets by using a single API suite and an integrated processing and fund settlement platform. Billions of mobile wallet consumers are now able to shop and pay at tens of thousands of merchants, online, mobile and in-store.

“We’re delighted to be able to enhance Oracle’s POS offerings by providing a plug-and-play way for their customers to accept QR based payments in stores,” said Wei Jiang, COO of CITCON. “This new agreement will enable safe, contactless transactions in store and open up new worlds of payments to Oracle customers.”

“Achieving Oracle Validated Integration with Xstore Expertise gives our customers the confidence that the integration of CITCON’s mobile payment solution is functionally sound and performs as tested,” said David Hicks, vice-president, Worldwide ISV Cloud Business Development, Oracle. “For solutions deployed on premise, in the cloud, or both, Oracle Validated Integration applies a rigorous technical review process that helps to reduce deployment risk and improves the user experience of the partner’s integrated offering.”

About CITCON

Founded in 2015, CITCON enables billions of mobile wallet consumers to shop and pay anywhere, anytime around the world with its industry-leading digital payment offering. In the last 3 years, Fortune 1000 businesses like L'oreal, Hermes, Texas Instruments, Nordstrom, Caesars Entertainment, MGM Resorts, Revolve, Tumi, Samsonite, Blue Nile and many more have chosen CITCON’s mobile payment solutions to expand their payment and commerce infrastructure to support their next phase of business expansion. CITCON is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has 5 regional offices in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia.

About Oracle Validated Integration Expertise

Oracle Validated Integration Expertise, available through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), gives customers confidence that the integration of a complementary partner software product with an on premise Oracle Application has been validated and the products work together as designed. This can help customers reduce risk, improve system implementation cycles, and provide for smoother upgrades and simpler maintenance. Oracle Validated Integration applies a rigorous technical process to review partner integrations and partners who successfully earn an Oracle Validated Integration Expertise are authorized to use the “Oracle Validated Integration” badge. For more information, please visit Oracle.com at https://solutions.oracle.com/scwar/scr/AboutPartners/validated-integration/index.html

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is Oracle’s partner program designed to enable partners to accelerate the transition to cloud and drive superior customer business outcomes. The OPN program allows partners to engage with Oracle through track(s) aligned to how they go to market: Cloud Build for partners that provide products or services built on or integrated with Oracle Cloud; Cloud Sell for partners that resell Oracle Cloud technology; Cloud Service for partners that implement, deploy and manage Oracle Cloud Services; and License & Hardware for partners that build, service or sell Oracle software licenses or hardware products. Customers can expedite their business objectives with OPN partners who have achieved Expertise in a product family or cloud service. To learn more visit: http://www.oracle.com/partnernetwork

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