Modern businesses thrive on three things; data, insights, and automation. Startups obsess over them, enterprises spend years trying to get them all working together, and business leaders rely on them to plan and strategize. Sales are the growth engine for most...
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News Flash: Merchants Using Authorize.net as Their Gateway Provider Have Until October 2022 to Find New Processor for 3D Secure 2.0 Protection
Visa and Mastercard have announced that all support for their cardholder authentication programs 3DS 1.0 must be upgraded to the newer Version 2.0 by October 2022. At the same time, the payment gateway Authorize.net has announced that it will no longer support...
Why Buy-Now-Pay-Later Is a Boon and a Bust In the Fight Against Chargebacks
Despite rising inflation, consumers are charging ahead with their spending. With online lenders eager to offer personal loans and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) schemes now a mainstay of eCommerce transactions, shopping has never been easier. Consumer spending fuels the...
9 Best Practices for Chargeback Management
You might think that fraud prevention tools will take care of chargeback fees, and they may to a certain extent. But they are only a component of a proactive chargeback management strategy. Chargebacks are taking an ever-increasing bite out of merchants’ bottom lines...
From Chatbots to Chargebacks: Recent Developments in Payments’ Innovations
Now that we have emerged from the dark recesses of the pandemic, commerce has changed yet again. Post-pandemic, consumers are unwilling to relinquish the comfort and convenience of digital shopping that they grew to love while on lockdown. However, at the same time,...
Boost Sales with Multi-Currency Conversion (MCC)
Does your business make cross-border sales? If the answer is “No,” is it because you think you can’t afford to open a brick-and-mortar store in another country? Or is it because you don’t want to deal with all the hassles that come with converting your prices into...
It All Starts with Playing in the Sandbox – A Developer’s Guide to Integrating Payment Processing
Have you ever wondered where unicorns come from? Mythology might have you thinking that unicorns have their origins in basements and garages, and while there are no shortages of these; unicorn startups share one thing in common - they are all conjured up in a...
Ride the Mobile Wallet Wave with Google Pay
Did you know . . . · Mobile wallet usage surpassed credit cards as the world’s most widely used payment method in 2019, and is projected to increase by 74% to $4.8 billion by the end of 2025 (Juniper Research) · 2020 added 900 million new mobile...
Apple Pay Leading the Way in Digital Wallet Usage
Apple Pay Leading the Way in Digital Wallet Usage Digital wallet transactions have increased steadily since 2015, and with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, usage has soared. According to the 2021 Debit Issuer Study, commissioned by Discover Financial Services’...
Looking for Ways to Maximize Sales? There’s a Button for That!
The number of online retailers has increased dramatically over the past few years. Partially fueled by the pandemic, consumers are now much more comfortable making online purchases. With so many shoppers in a buying mood, it’s important to offer them convenient ways...