To help them run their businesses, Stitch Labs offers small, product-oriented merchants a set of online tools, including inventory management, customer management and business analytics. The suite also gives merchants the ability to process online transactions through website shopping carts and social shopping platforms like Etsy and Shopify.

Now Stitch is integrating VeriFone's Sail mobile point-of-sale product, which will extend the solution so that small businesses can sell their products in offline venues using their mobile devices as terminals.

According to a post on the company's blog, Stitch users can accept payments offline and have the sales reflected in their Stitch account. Additionally, they can capture customer sales information in real time. The information will be communicated automatically toonline selling platforms.

Launched back in May, Sail is VeriFone's entry into the crowded mobile POS space. Unlike market-leading Square, VeriFone has made its payment platform open so that third-party developers like Stitch can integrate Sail's processing capabilities and secure card reader into their own apps and software.

In selecting VeriFone as a partner, Stitch touted SAIL's open platform. "[VeriFone sees] the value in opening their network and working closely with other applications," Stitch said on its blog. "They, too, want to make the Internet a place where small businesses can have access to powerful and affordable tools."

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