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Top Considerations for Running $1 Trial Offers
Offering $1 trial offers is a great way to acquire new customers and enable people to try your product or service at a discount. It’s a lucrative business model for subscription and continuity merchants who offer products and services at a recurring fee. While it has several financial benefits, this model also has some drawbacks.
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Top Ecommerce Fraud Prevention Tricks for the Holidays
The holiday season is the most important time of the year for online businesses. While an increased number of shoppers are perusing ecommerce sites, an increased number of bad actors are, too. Even though Christmas is behind us, the holiday selling season is not over. Many consumers will take advantage of post-holiday sales and begin…
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Top Tips for Evaluating Merchant Account Providers
There are plenty of merchant account providers out there to choose from, making it a difficult task deciding which one is right for you. Different business models require different considerations to ensure that payments are optimized and payment processing costs remain low.
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Understanding the Application Process for Domestic Merchant Accounts
Ecommerce has grown precipitously over the last couple of years, with entrepreneurs establishing different business models targeting varying markets. Regardless of your industry or business type and the corresponding business model, you will need a domestic merchant account to accept payment card payments online.
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Visa International Card-Not-Present Interchange
Visa has specific interchange for transactions that occur using an international card in a card-not-present environment.
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What to Do About Post-Holiday Returns
Post-holiday returns are a reality for merchants of all shapes and sizes. Last year, UPS projected a whopping 1.4 million returns on January 3, 2018. Ecommerce returns are projected to smash previous numbers, meaning merchants need to get prepared.
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What’s a Chargeback? Understanding Different Types of Ecommerce Fraud
If you are a new merchant in ecommerce, you will likely find yourself asking “what’s a chargeback?” at some point. Chargebacks are an unfortunate reality for online merchants, though with the right knowledge and planning, chargebacks can be minimized. A chargeback is happens when a customer disputes a charge with their payment card issuing bank…
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What’s the Difference? Retrieval Request vs. Chargeback
Perhaps you spent a restless night, and awoke with a glimmer of the nightmare that kept restful slumber at bay. That lingering memory nagged repeatedly at the edges of every waking thought today.