Author Caroline Banton What if you only needed one? If you are a merchant who uses Elavon for your payment processing, you'll be familiar with its range of payment channels — in-person, contactless, online, and mobile. What you might not be familiar with is...
Payment Infrastructure
Should we blame Visa?
Or did VAMP simply expose risk practices that were already broken? VAMP (Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program) is Visa's framework for monitoring fraud and dispute activity across merchant portfolios. Did Visa break merchant onboarding? Or did it just make unmanaged...
Digital payment flows represent roughly $10 trillion in annual spend.
SaaS platforms are increasingly making more from payments than subscriptions. What does this mean? What used to be a feature is quickly becoming the business model. According to McKinsey & Company, digital payments now account for the vast majority of consumer...
How is Gen Z influencing your payment stack?
We thought it was a fad, but digital wallets are becoming the starting point of the shopping journey. As Authorize.net enables Apple Pay and Google Pay for new merchants, it signals a broader shift: payments are moving upstream, closer to where purchase decisions...
Sometimes stepping away is what makes it work.
For a long time, if you wanted flexibility in payments, Shopify wasn’t where you looked. As Shopify doubled down on controlling checkout and payments during and after COVID, many third-party processors and gateways, including offerings like Elavon Converge, became...
You can’t afford to return the POS terminal you are using.
Everyone focuses on rates/money/pricing. It's like when a potential partner or vendor spends hours on a proposal, and you flip straight to the last page to see what it’s going to cost before you read it. Read the bottom of your statements. If you don’t, things get...
Is it the right fit?
That is what we ask ourselves before deciding on any partnership. It’s not about us. The right partnerships create better outcomes by putting our customers first. As payment environments continue to evolve, businesses need more than basic payment processing. They...