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Resilience is Key as Payments Acceptance becomes Mission-Critical

Retail TouchPoints

Consumers now prefer digital payment options, with cash usage declining in all major economies. Cards have become by far the most popular payment method, with contactless now accounting for most purchases made at retail stores. Equally, the terminal app should have been designed to support alternative transaction processing flows.

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Text Message Marketing: The Best eCommerce Platforms and Services

Groove

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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Shopify Email Marketing Strategies: Using Campaigns & Automation to Grow Your Business

Groove

For Shopify merchants , email marketing presents one of the best ways to engage with customers and drive sales. To help you master email marketing for Shopify, we'll go over the proven strategies you can use to create successful email marketing Shopify campaigns and grow your business.

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Holiday Shopping Trends and Payments Innovations: Experience as Competitive Advantage

Retail TouchPoints

Payments technology is central to the shopping experience. During the holiday rush the security and ease of the payments experience can be as crucial as product price or availability. How can retailers update their payments systems to meet rapidly changing consumer behavior during peak demand?

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Everything You Need to Know About Achieving PCI Compliance [Checklist Included]

BigCommerce

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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How Subscription Merchants can Prevent Chargebacks on Recurring Payments

Retail TouchPoints

In fact, the financial services firm UBS projects that the market will hit $1.5 Yet despite that robust figure, there is a looming challenge for merchants — chargebacks. Chargebacks occur when funds are withdrawn from a merchant’s account due to a customer dispute. There’s no denying that the subscription economy is booming.

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Merchant of Record for Mobile Games: What It Is and Why You Need One

FastSpring

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 ?