• 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • Why Your Payment Aggregator Doesn’t Want You to Make Money

    Online statistics firm Statista predicts that more than 100 million Americans will use peer-to-peer payments in 2020 due to the convenience and simplicity.

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  • Top 6 Considerations for Your Mobile App Payment Gateway

    Mobile app developers joining us today appreciate that there are many mobile app payment gateways to choose from, but might like to know what to consider when choosing one. Let’s walk through it together.

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  • Top 5 Tips to Preventing Fraud in the Wake of Big Breaches

    “Data breach” is a term no one likes to hear. It causes customers to lose faith in the retailers that put their sensitive payment card data at risk, and it triggers a massive scramble to recover from the fallout for the retailers that are targeted by hackers.

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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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