“Novo Dia plans to make the application available on any smart phone and to make it compatible with other mobile card readers, such as the device being developed by HomeATM ePayment Solutions.”

Novo Dia Group Inc., an Austin, Texas, software vendor that developed the app for Apple Inc.'s iPhones, said that letting small merchants at Michigan farmers' markets accept electronic benefits transfer cards is part of the state's efforts to make fresh produce more readily available to participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition program for Women, Infants and Children.
"WIC EBT is still a fairly immature market," said Josh Wiles, a Novo Dia senior partner. "If this takes off, it can open up the farmers' markets to accept WIC."