“Which terminal should I use for my business?” The Guide
When starting out a business nowadays, big or small, one of the more important things is to make sure you’re prepared for multiple types of payment, as cash-only cuts out a sizeable portion of your customers. It’s something rarely taught, and jumping into the world of...
Make Your Small Business Big With Virtual Terminals
Being able to assure your business method is the most convenient for your customer is a priority in modern business. Credit and Debit Cards being accepted is a start, but staying ahead of your competition will probably require a Virtual Terminal and the skills to...
How to Thrive in the E-Commerce Market
As the internet has grown, so has the market of e-commerce, to the point it's undeniably the driving force behind a sizeable amount of the world's most profitable companies- some even carving a path with it exclusively. Out of the 7.7 billion making up the world’s...
Gaining trust as an online store: The Guide
These days, online stores are becoming the new go-to option for any kind of purchase. Sites like Amazon, eBay and other similar e-commerce stores are constantly growing at the expense of the high street. If you are wishing to help your company progress and gain a...
Getting a Trusted Online Store: The Guide
These days, online stores are becoming the new go-to option for any kind of purchase. Sites like Amazon, eBay and other similar e-commerce stores are constantly growing at the expense of the high street. If you are wishing to help your company progress and gain a...
20% Of Brits Don’t Carry Cash- And It’s Only Increasing
If the latest research done by the contactless and cashless service First Bus is anything to go by, Britain isn't far from becoming fully cashless. In a poll with 2,000 UK adult participants, it was found that one in five Britons no longer carry cash on their person,...
How to accept card payments – The Beginners Guide
We live in the digital age where computers and electronic data are paramount to almost everything; even money. As one going into a new business as either an employee or owner, you must be aware of how credit card payments will be a key factor to your business...
How to accept credit card payments – a beginners guide
We live in the digital age where computers and electronic data are paramount to almost everything; even money. As one going into a new business as either an employee or owner, you must be aware of how credit card payments will be a key factor to your business...
PayPal’s Schulman Not A Bitcoin Fan
Digital payment company PayPal is not betting on bitcoin as of now. In an interview with TheStreet.com, PayPal chief executive officer Dan Schulman said that while PayPal is focused on innovating in the payment market, it’s not focused specifically on the digital...
SECURITY & FRAUD Consumers Want Biometrics – How Will Payments Respond?
With the holiday shopping season behind us, most shoppers can probably say with confidence that the worst part of the whole experience was trying to remember passwords for the eCommerce sites they shopped. It’s not just the holiday season, either. A recent study by...
Mobile Payments 2.0: Building Better Retail Experiences
Payments has by and large been a growth business for the last half decade or so, and that fact has been mappable in scores of innovations around the world. But, as PYMNTS’ Karen Webster pointed out, for all of those advances, one is conspicuously missing from the...
BITCOIN A Cryptocurrency With “No Purpose” Has Raised $700M
One of the hottest cryptocurrency investments of 2017, a startup called block.one, has raised $700 million selling a digital token that has “no purpose.” According to The Wall Street Journal, this is the largest initial coin offering to date, with block.one’s market...
Shop tills to ring to ‘optimistic’ chime for Visa transactions in new era of ‘sensory branding’
Shoppers already driven to distraction by the incessant dinging, and beeping of self-checkouts could be about to face a new headache. Payments using Visa will soon be accompanied by a ‘signature sound’, which will chime out each time a card or smartphone is presented,...
Payments Testing One, Two, Three
Modern consumers have high expectations for technology. If something doesn’t work perfectly, they’re quick to grow frustrated and abandon it as junk. “Our generation is a little bit spoiled,” said Bart van Hoek, head of Innovations with UL Transaction Security — and...
Google Predicts AI Will Be An Issue For Regulators
A vice president at Alphabet’s Google says that the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data in various fields will pose new challenges to the governments regulating those industries. “It’s going to be a big issue,” Geoffrey Hinton said at...