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...
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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...
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...
Before you build payments in-house, read this.
The choice to build in house or partner with a provider depends on your business goals, timeline, and resources. This post outlines the key criteria: strategic focus, speed, economics, compliance risk, user experience, and technical capability, and includes practical...
Technology matters. People matter more.
You choose the technology that best fits your business. Your people determine whether it actually works. The true return on investment does not come from the technology itself. It comes from how effectively employees adopt and use it. In practice, even the slickest...
What 1,000 transactions a day really exposes.
POS systems are critical in retail. That goes without saying. But in high-volume retail, it may be the most important thing in your store. Busy urban or flagship cannabis stores can exceed 1,000 transactions per day. Here’s what often gets overlooked, especially in...
Your ERP is running your business. Why aren’t your payments part of it?
Payments create more value when they sit inside the ERP, not beside it. An Elavon–Infor integration with Converge can streamline checkout, tokenization, reconciliation, and cashiering workflows while improving automation and payment visibility. Planning a rollout?...
You’re already wasting the revenue you’ve earned.
Want to know how? eCommerce breaks in the back office. The missed reconciliations. The delayed reporting. The “we’ll fix it later” spreadsheets. Sound familiar? When you’re selling across Shopify, Amazon, and everywhere in between, the real challenge isn’t accepting...