Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 15, 2024

Read this blog for a peek into the findings from this year’s evaluation, The Forrester Wave™: Merchant Payment Providers, Q1 2024, by Principal Analyst Lily Varon.

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Kissmetrics

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Merchant services exist to help businesses process credit card payments. Regardless of what you call them, choosing the best merchant service isn’t easy. That’s why, in this guide, I’m catering to each type of business and finding the right merchant service for your needs. Aggregators.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Amazon Access has added a new Cash EBT payment option for customers receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Additionally, the benefits can be used to cover shipping fees as well as items sold by third-party merchants. and West Virginia.

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Groove

OCTOBER 11, 2024

SMS, or short messaging service, and MMS, or multimedia messaging service, enable you to reach customers through their cellphones. Compliance and Regulation Businesses that use text message marketing platforms have to be careful to stay within the letter of the law. What is Text Message Marketing?

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Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 1, 2022

For our latest evaluation in the merchant payment provider space, Forrester identified 11 leading vendors - learn more about our findings.

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Practical eCommerce

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Industry pros cite common merchant mistakes that jeopardize processor relationships and damage a business. The post 4 Payment Processing Pitfalls to Avoid appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2024

The seamless nature of digital commerce has inspired consumers to expect more from the payment experience everywhere they shop — online, in-store and even via social channels. Customers today expect to be able to shop where and when they want and use the payment method they want.” more compared to their previous buying levels.

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GetElastic

MAY 24, 2023

eCommerce is booming, and with more people shopping online than ever before, having a streamlined and efficient payment process is essential. However, with so many payment methods and processors available, and so many new payment trends , it can be overwhelming to know where to start. What is eCommerce Payment Processing?

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Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 14, 2022

As part of the latest Forrester Wave evaluation of the merchant payment provider market, we spoke with 23 customer references (i.e., merchants like retailers and brands) about their experiences with their current payment provider.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Selling internationally can get complicated very quickly if you’re trying to manage cross border payments yourself. And typical payment service providers won’t help you with most of those concerns. Read on to learn: Why cross border payments are key to taking your business global.

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Groove

JULY 22, 2024

Choosing the correct Shopify payment gateway is a decision that eCommerce retailers should not take lightly. Each payment gateway has its own series of benefits and challenges associated with the service. Before diving into the five payment gateways on this list, let's briefly discuss what a payment gateway is.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 23, 2024

So where do you start if you want to provide more global payment solutions to your player base while chipping away at the hefty 30% fees that mobile marketplaces charge? With a merchant of record like FastSpring. What Is a Merchant of Record ? How Is an MoR Different From a Payment Service Provider ?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

retailer to offer Tap to Pay on iPhone, which allows associates to accept contactless payments using their iPhones without requiring a dedicated payments card reader or additional hardware. Morgan Payments powers the Tap to Pay on iPhone service, which can accept credit and debit cards, Apple Pay and NFC-enabled digital wallets.

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BigCommerce

APRIL 6, 2018

This is particularly because many of us maintain large numbers of (supposedly secure) personal online profiles that afford us a convenient way to deal with recurring monthly or annual payments. The SSC defines and manages the standards, while compliance to them is enforced by the credit card companies themselves.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

For our latest evaluation in the merchant payment provider space, Forrester identified ten leading vendors and spent the last four months analyzing their offering via a combination of briefings, demos, capability assessments and customer reference checks. Morgan, PayPal, Stripe, Worldline, and Worldpay from FIS. […].

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Ecommerce Platforms

MARCH 22, 2023

There are a huge range of payment processing brands out there, all offering tools to help make your organization a money-making entity. After all, how do you know you’re selecting a payment processor that can simultaneously keep your costs low, and ensure you’re offering a great service? Manually-keyed in payments cost 2.5%

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Not all the changes have been additions— Amazon also is reportedly winding down its Today same-day delivery service for sellers that also have brick-and-mortar stores. Here’s all the recent news on Amazon’s recent services shuffle. Retailers currently using the service include Office Depot, Staples, Petco, Pacsun and GNC.

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Groove

MARCH 21, 2022

Workflow automation software is a marketing tool or CRM that lets merchants set up a single task or a series of tasks that run on their own. The logic used is typically rule-based, meaning that the merchant sets certain rules based on whether a contact does or does not do something. View notes and insights on ongoing processes.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2021

With banks and credit card companies warming up to the idea of Bitcoin trading and crypto rewards on card transactions, are they really extending the benefits of crypto to merchants, or is this just a play to get consumers to buy into a shiny new card that looks different but acts very much the same?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 30, 2024

-based merchants via AliExpressDirect, offering 0% commissions and $0 onboarding costs as part of a special introductory offer. The China-based marketplace also will provide marketing, business and customer service support, including handling buyer inquiries and after-sales disputes, free of charge.

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Groove

MAY 19, 2023

One such tool is Google Merchant Center. If you've ever found yourself asking, "What is Google Merchant Center, and how can it enhance my eCommerce performance?" Google Merchant Center Explained What is Google Merchant Center? then you're in the right place. Imagine you’re a business selling handcrafted leather shoes.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2022

Reach , a combined payments, tax and fraud platform designed to improve handling of cross-border commerce transactions, has received $30 million in its latest funding round. The Reach solution powers transactions in 120 local currencies and local processing in more than 40 markets.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 31, 2023

Amazon is bringing ‘Buy with Prime’ capabilities to Shopify merchants via a new app integration. Now, the new app is empowering Shopify merchants to offer this seamless payment experience to their customers. The app is rolling out as invite-only to select Shopify merchants and will be available to all U.S.-based

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RTP blog

DECEMBER 30, 2019

market for payment systems is complex. We have over 21 million businesses, and every one of them needs some form of a payment processing solution. Payment processing is complex. However, payment technology is perhaps the best it’s ever been. However, payment technology is perhaps the best it’s ever been.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Using our payment card whilst we shop online rarely gives us pause, and the many millions who buy online generally trust the system. However, the recent busy shopping season means it’s a good time to remind ourselves that there is an ongoing battle to make sure that the payment card data of your customers remains secure.

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Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

We recently published the “The Forrester Wave™: Global Merchant Payment Providers, Q4 2018” report, which identifies the 11 most significant global payment vendors that can help enterprise merchants with their omnichannel efforts.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The payments landscape and how it affects businesses trying to grow in Asia. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. For those that might not be familiar, FastSpring is a merchant of record platform that combines all the essential tools you need to scale a digital goods business.

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Ecommerce Platforms

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here we look briefly at Chicago-based Braintree Payments, highlighting some of the features a merchant might consider when picking a payment processor. Today, Braintree is one of the biggest payment solutions in the landscape, offering an excellent selection of tools for business owners to explore. Lots of great features.

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Kissmetrics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

So, the way in which you accept payments matters for both you and the customer. Not only that, as a business owner you need to know that you’re not shelling out cash on inferior services or unnecessary additional fees. Therefore, this post will cover everything you need to know about choosing the right credit card processing company.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2024

URBN , parent company of Urban Outfitters , Anthropologie , Free People and FP Movement , will adopt Stripe as its primary payments infrastructure for both online and in-store sales, consolidating the majority of its North American payments volume onto the solution provider.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2023

As the online payments industry continues to evolve, new digital wallet solutions, such as mobile payment apps and e-wallet platforms, are becoming increasingly popular and reshaping the way consumers transact. 4 Pros of Digital Wallets Some of the advantages of digital wallet payment options include: 1.

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Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Payments will once again be top of mind for fintechs, merchants, and consumers — but for reasons different from those of the past three years.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2024

merchants worth an estimated $30 billion that will lower the interchange fees (commonly referred to as swipe fees) that merchants are charged when customers use credit or debit cards. Additionally, the settlement provides funding for new programs to educate small businesses about payment acceptance options and how to best manage costs.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 29, 2021

Some of the updates to our platform include faster seller onboarding, support for more languages, and a play-by-play rundown of how we’ve made PSD2 compliance effortless for our sellers. Made PSD2 Compliance Easy for Global Sellers. In fact, we’ve already made the required changes on your behalf.

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Ecommerce Platforms

AUGUST 9, 2021

If you're a UK entrepreneur who's laying the groundwork for their online business, you may have already started researching payment gateway providers. If that's you, you'll likely know that payment gateways offer different features, terms, and pricing depending on the country you're operating from. Shopify Payments. Google Pay.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Businesses need to consider the complexities of cross-border transactions like: the most common regional payment methods, fees for cross-border transactions, regulations around selling digital goods , and if buyers are actually in the region they appear to be. Kakao Pay Integration. Mercado Pago. Revenue Recognition (RevRec) Reporting.

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Omnisend

MAY 25, 2021

Choosing an ecommerce payment processing solution is one of the essential tasks when launching a store. Finding a suitable payment solution isn’t the only important step that store owners need to do before launching their ecommerce store, of course—but it might be the most important. Reading Time: 7 minutes.

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