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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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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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AliExpress Opens to U.S. Sellers as it Preps for 11.11 Singles Day

Retail TouchPoints

-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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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 Chargebacks occur when funds are withdrawn from a merchant’s account due to a customer dispute.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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Disrupting the eCommerce Industry with Jason Nyhus of Shopware - EP008

Groove

Jason shares his 25-year journey in the industry, highlighting the lessons he’s learned and the unique value Shopware brings to merchants. Jason emphasizes how Shopware's open-source approach allows merchants to "bring their own cloud" and reduce operational costs while gaining full control over their eCommerce ecosystem.

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Merchant Payment Providers In APAC: What’s Hot In 2024

Forrester eCommerce

The APAC market is never short of innovative payment technologies. A decade ago, QR code payments blossomed in China, leading a wave of mobile payment tech innovations in Asia Pacific (APAC) and beyond. More recently, AI and blockchain technologies have injected new vitality into the payment market.