The Stupid, Simple Guide: How to Accept Payments Online
If you’re interested in expanding your brick-and-mortar business online, or you want to open an ecommerce shop, you’ll need to figure out how to accept payments online. It can seem overwhelming at first if you haven’t done a lot of research: you need a secure solution...
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Choosing Merchant Services for Coffee Shops
PayArc is pleased to announce new specialized merchant services for coffee shops. We understand the importance of creating the best payments infrastructure for your small business, and we’re here to help. Coffee is lifeblood for your patrons: they wake up in the...
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‘Tis (Almost) The Season: 9 Ways to Guard Against Fraud
By now, holiday online retail trends should be no surprise to merchants: both sales volume and fraud rise dramatically. Last year, fraud attempts were up over 30% during the holiday season, and the trend is sure to continue in the 2017 holiday shopping season....
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The New Commerce Playbook: Aligning Your Online & Offline Strategies
Ecommerce has eclipsed traditional brick-and-mortar commerce, but that is only the beginning of the story. Ecommerce continues to get more and more complex with mobile commerce, conversational commerce, and cryptocurrencies. The moral of the story is that the offline...
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How AI & Machine Learning Are Transforming the Payments Landscape
PayArc was recently in the news! Jared Ronski shared some insights with Business2Community.com on How AI & Machine Learning Are Transforming the Payments Landscape. The article discussed preventing fraud, new opportunities, how AI improves efficiency, and other...
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The Future of Frictionless Payments
New technology has expanded the ways we pay. Where cash was once king, credit and debit cards now reign supreme. Even that upseating is in the process of dynamic change. As consumer lifestyle preferences shift and convenience is valued over all, many consumers are...
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Small Business 101: How to Get an Ecommerce Merchant Account
Maybe you’re a brick and mortar store looking to expand your customer base to people who can’t reach your physical location, or maybe you’re a unique small business that only sells products online. Whatever your situation, having an online business presence is just...
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Bridging the Gap in Payment Processing Technology
Being an online merchant can be a careful balancing act. You want to deliver quality service to your customers, while maintaining security and a good cash flow. In theory, it doesn’t sound too bad, but if one small thing goes awry in the transaction chain, it can be...
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Ins and Outs of the Credit Card Dispute Process
If you’re an online merchant, you probably know that fraud in card-not-present (CNP) transactions is on the rise, increasing from 2.8 billion in 2014 to 4 billion in 2017. That means that more and more consumers might be the victims of online fraud — or they are...
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What’s the Difference? Payment Gateway vs. Virtual Terminal
For those who are looking to integrate payment solutions into their e-commerce/online business, some of the jargon used in the payment processing industry can be somewhat confusing. The most common of these terminologies is the payment gateway and virtual terminal and...
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