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• $75M weed giant Caliva ditches Eaze, launches delivery - It’s a brutal time for marijuana startups. I’m hearing some are raising at 1/5th of their 2019 valuation amidst rampant competition, tall taxes, and slow legalization. The struggles for marijuana’s best-known startup, delivery service Eaze, continue as today it’s losing one of its top partners. $75 million-funded weed brand empire Caliva has dropped Eaze in […]
  Topics: brands, caliva, weed, giant, payments, marijuana, eaze, ditches, 75m, service, techcrunch, launches, startup, delivery, legal.
• 5 Points to Consider When Choosing an Ecommerce System for Your Business - With cryptocurrency gaining prominence, have you considered accepting Bitcoin and its ilk?
  Topics: support, services, crypto, solutions, digital, choosing, customers, payment, business, ecommerce, methods, system, payments, consider, points.
• 5 ways cryptocurrency benefits ecommerce - Cryptocurrency opens a new environment, where sellers and buyers can cooperate more efficiently. Encryption methods such as decentralized payments and anonymity provide the potential to change the world of ecommerce.
  Topics: high, technology, ecommerce, money, online, payments, transactions, bitcoin, transaction, impossible, benefits, cryptocurrency, ways.
• 6 Mobile Trends That Could Change Commerce Forever - The vast majority of Americans–95%–own a mobile phone, and these devices are now officially the most popular way to shop online, according to the Pew Research Center. Take a look at the Mobile trends driving revenue. 
  Topics: huskisson, users, customers, change, forever, woods, soon, trends, commerce, shopping, pwas, payments, mobile, told.
• 6 digital payment trends to keep an eye on - With advancements in technology and the increasing adoption of cashless solutions, businesses need to pay attention to payment trends. Here are six digital payment trends to keep an eye on. By anticipating, analyzing and modeling how these trends work is the only way to succeed.
  Topics: card, mobile, digital, commerce, eye, trends, payment, credit, trend, payments, pay.
• A Detailed Skrill Review: Is Skrill the Right Payment Platform For You? - Skrill has an interesting history. I've had some merchants ask me whether or not it's a scam. Let's be clear–I can be certain it's a legitimate payment processor. However, it does have some problems with transparency–especially in the United States. And… Continue reading A Detailed Skrill Review: Is Skrill the Right Payment Platform For You?
  Topics: right, wallet, send, payments, youre, fees, platform, money, skrill, paypal, review, payment, fee, detailed.
• A Guide to Payment Tokens for Ecommerce - Innovation in electronic payments has always balanced risk and convenience. Generally, a payment method that's convenient for consumers is risky for merchants. The use of "tokens" can reduce that risk by protecting credit card details.
  Topics: guide, tokens, merchants, payments, merchant, payment, service, ecommerce, card, transactions, token, credit.
• Accept Credit Cards Online: The Best Way to Receive Payments in Any Country Using 2Checkout, Payoneer and InvoiceNinja (October 2018) - If you come from a place like Pakistan, Peru or Belarus you know that running a business is a little limited when it comes to how you accep credit cards and payments through PayPal and other processors. This is troubling considering it… Continue reading Accept Credit Cards Online: The Best Way to Receive Payments in Any Country Using 2Checkout, Payoneer and InvoiceNinja (October 2018)
  Topics: payoneer, credit, payment, account, youre, dollar, free, 2checkout, using, cards, invoiceninja, payments, invoice, online, click, way, receive, country.
• Adyen charges ahead in its first earnings as a public company, with H1 revenues up 67% to $180M - After Adyen’s huge debut on the public markets in June that saw the stock go up 92 percent on its first day of trading, the company today published its first earnings as a publicly listed business. The figures underscore to how Adyen — which provides services to merchants and others to power both online and offline […]
  Topics: business, h1, adyens, customers, adyen, million, processed, earnings, ahead, transactions, payments, 180m, revenues, public, company, charges.
• Africa's top phone maker is leading a $40 million investment to win the race for online payments - Shenzhen, China-based Transsion Holdings, Africa’s top phone maker, is joining a crowded field of major international players getting into the continent’s fintech space with the launch of PalmPay.
  Topics: africas, unique, online, transsion, firm, maker, transsions, venture, transsneta, investment, race, win, leading, million, palmpay, netease, phone, payments.
• AliExpress customers in Europe can pay later - Starting today, AliExpress customers in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Finland can choose when and how they want to pay for their goods. This is the result of a partnership between Klarna and AliExpress’ payment service provider Adyen. Swedish payment service provider Klarna, Dutch payments company Adyen and Alibaba’s payments… Continue reading
  Topics: aliexpress, markets, europe, later, customers, payments, klarna, payment, partnership, service, pay.
• Alibaba’s Ant Financial acquires UK payments company WorldFirst - Ant Financial, the Alibaba-owned fintech company, has acquired currency exchange and payments company WorldFirst. By taking over the UK company, Chinese internet giant Alibaba can take a major step into Europe. The acquisition was in the works for quite some time, but WorldFirst confirmed the news to its customers yesterday.… Continue reading
  Topics: alipay, omnichannel, worldfirst, financial, company, alibabas, acquires, chinese, payments, merchants, uk, ant.
• All You Need To Know About Recharge Payments - Are you looking for a reliable recurring billing app for your Shopify Store? If so, Recharge Payments could be the solution for you. This review takes an in-depth look at its features, hits and misses to help you determine if… Continue reading All You Need To Know About Recharge Payments
  Topics: order, recharge, products, payments, card, credit, need, customers, subscription, customer, product, know.
• Amazon Pay launches peer-to-peer payments in India - Continuing its investment in India, Amazon today announced the launch of person-to-person (P2P) payments via Amazon Pay for Android users in the country. Customers can now make instant bank-to-bank transactions through the UPI platform on the localized version of the Amazon app, allowing them to settle bills and other expenses with friends, lend or return […]
  Topics: customers, app, amazon, p2p, techcrunch, bank, upi, launches, payments, peertopeer, money, pay, india, stores.
• Amazon is bringing a cash-based checkout option, Amazon PayCode, to the US - Amazon is making it easier for customers to pay with cash for their online purchases. The retailer today announced the U.S. arrival of Amazon PayCode, a new checkout option that will allow online shoppers to pay for Amazon.com purchases at one of 15,000 Western Union locations. Separately from this, Amazon said that its Amazon Cash […]
  Topics: union, techcrunch, shoppers, checkout, cashbased, payments, paycode, western, amazon, online, bringing, pay, option, cash, customers.
• Are QR Codes an Option for Contactless Payments? - Before the Covid-19 pandemic, many physical-store merchants considered contactless payments to be a fad. My previous article addressed near field communication, the technology that powers most contactless payment methods in North America. In this post, I will examine an NFC alternative: QR codes.
  Topics: website, contactless, codes, code, qr, smartphone, payments, payment, option, nfc, customers, merchant.
• As stock rises on a slim earnings beat, eBay tells analysts to focus on payments and ads - Despite increasing competition from traditional retailers like Walmart and Target, which have invested heavily in e-commerce, and the whupping it’s routinely taking from Amazon among pure e-commerce companies, eBay, the 20-year-old lumbering Pez dispenser of an e-tailer, keeps plugging along. Now, as it manages to eke out another earnings win by matching analysts’ expectations, the […]
  Topics: billion, earnings, yearago, stock, rises, focus, million, advertising, payments, analysts, tells, beat, company, buyers, marketplace, ebay, slim.
• BigCommerce for B2B Businesses launches - BigCommerce has announced the roll out of BigCommerce for B2B. As the name suggests, it’s software suite that’s tailored for business-to-business retailers who want to sell their products online. BigCommerce for B2B is aimed at wholesalers, manufacturers and distributors. The new ecommerce software solution is the result of BigCommerce partnering… Continue reading
  Topics: payments, retail, software, purchases, launches, businesses, b2b, omnichannel, merchants, bigcommerce, punchout2go, shipping.
• Cards are preferred payment method in Europe - Cards are the preferred payment method in Europe, for both consumers and merchants. The use of cards has expanded over the past few years, with 87 percent of European consumers feeling comfortable paying by card. The payments landscape of Europe keeps evolving and although new players have entered the market,… Continue reading
  Topics: consumers, payments, data, cards, merchants, method, methods, preferred, card, payment, europe.
• Case warns consumers about LuxStyle International - Singapore shoppers have been warned about dealing with LuxStyle International.
  Topics: singapore, payment, consumer, case, warns, advisory, consumers, international, received, firm, luxstyle, payments.
• Cash on Delivery Dominates Indian Ecommerce - Ecommerce in India remains heavily dependent on the cash-on-delivery mode of payment — more than 50 percent of transactions. In this post, I'll address why Indian shoppers continue this traditional payment route
  Topics: payments, payment, digital, cash, transactions, dominates, ecommerce, indian, online, delivery, using, india.
• Celery Review for 2019: A Payment Processor With Delayed Payments, Referrals and More - One of the primary aspects of setting up an online store is figuring out the perfect payment processing solution. Sometimes payment solutions are far too expensive based on the number of products you are selling–or because of the price of… Continue reading Celery Review for 2019: A Payment Processor With Delayed Payments, Referrals and More
  Topics: referrals, checkout, customers, processor, crowdfunding, paypal, celery, delayed, review, online, stripe, payment, payments.
• Checkout.com raises 206 million euros - Checkout.com, a London-based provider of online payment solutions has raised 230 million dollar (206 million euros). It’s Europe’s largest fintech Series A round ever. It’s the first time the payment solutions provider is taking funding from outside investors. The funding round was led by Insight Partners and DST Global, while… Continue reading
  Topics: euros, payment, services, checkoutcom, round, payments, million, raises, wants, partners, financial, online.
• China’s Alipay adds sought-after beauty filters to face-scan payments - In China, striving for accuracy in a piece of facial recognition software isn’t enough. As Alibaba’s e-wallet affiliate Alipay has recently demonstrated, the way software presents a user’s look is also crucial to its success. On Tuesday, Alipay announced on social media platform Weibo (in Chinese) that it’s added beauty filters to its pay-with-face system […]
  Topics: look, filters, chinas, recently, soughtafter, facescan, adds, meitu, techcrunch, wechat, software, payments, recognition, beauty, alipay, users.
• Covid-19, NFC, and the Future of Contactless Payments - Once touted as the future, contactless payments never achieved mass popularity. Shoppers preferred the familiar swipe, dip, PIN-entry, and signature. The Covid-19 pandemic will likely change that as consumers are now more conscious of what they touch.
  Topics: device, contactless, credit, nfc, future, card, covid19, devices, payment, field, details, payments.
• Crypto-commerce: banking on blockchain for B2B payments - 35% of B2B buyers and suppliers are interested in blockchain-based payment networks and 26% believe blockchain is the “preeminent payment technology of the future.” What's driving this trend?
  Topics: payment, transactions, technology, smart, fraud, b2b, verification, distributed, blockchain, banks, cryptocommerce, payments, banking.
• Delivering Superior Merchant Experiences - Latest release of Magento Commerce to deliver best-in-class B2C and B2B shopping experiences that accelerate sales
  Topics: experiences, tools, inventory, mobile, rates, magento, conversion, merchants, merchant, commerce, payments, superior, delivering.
• Digital payments in India rise as consumers stay home - Digital payments in India have risen by 10 per cent over the last month, despite a 30-per-cent decline in online travel spending.
  Topics: india, stay, cent, payments, sectors, utility, spending, platform, consumers, grocery, digital, travel, razorpay, rise.
• Dutch payment method iDeal keeps growing due to mobile - iDeal, the most popular payment method in the Netherlands, is being used more and more on mobile devices. Currently, seven out of ten iDeal payments are done from a smartphone or tablet. Mobile person-to-person payments are particularly popular. New data on the usage of iDeal was shared by Currence, the… Continue reading
  Topics: billion, payments, growing, keeps, popular, mobile, payment, ideal, dutch, method, omnichannel, increased, using.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: March 18, 2019 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-March from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shoppable ads, fintech, B2B, shipping, multichannel fulfillment, and personalization.
  Topics: payments, platform, product, launches, ecommerce, services, b2b, merchants, payment, releases, shipping.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: October 31, 2019 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for late-October from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on voice-commerce, expense management, payments, small business loans, shipping, and returns.
  Topics: search, card, small, releases, product, platform, businesses, announced, ecommerce, business, payment, customers, payments.
• Ecommerce Strategies for a Whirlwind of ‘Pays’ - Facebook Pay is the latest entry into the world of digital payments, joining Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, WeChat Pay, Alipay, PayPal, Amazon Pay, Venmo, Masterpass, and Visa Checkout. It’s time to demystify all of these “pays” and to create a strategy that will advance your ecommerce business.
  Topics: whirlwind, merchants, payments, facebook, pays, payment, strategies, checkout, pay, customers, business, ecommerce.
• Ecommerce in Czech Republic: €5.25 billion in 2018 - Ecommerce in the Czech Republic was worth 135 billion Czech koruny (or 5.25 billion euros) in 2018. That’s twice as much as in 2014. Last year, 90 percent of Czech consumers shopped online at least once. This is shown in the report “Payments Landscape in the Czech Republic: Opportunities and… Continue reading
  Topics: card, payments, cards, popular, czech, republic, ecommerce, payment, billion, online.
• Elavon to acquire Sage Pay, a gateway that competes with Stripe, PayPal and Adyen, for $300M - E-commerce continues to gain momentum — a trend we’ll see played out in the next two months of holiday shopping — and with that comes more consolidation. Today, Elavon, the payments company that is a subsidiary of US Bancorp, announced that it will acquire Sage Pay, one of the bigger payment processors in the UK […]
  Topics: stripe, gateway, acquire, transactions, small, adyen, million, payments, sage, market, pay, competes, deal, paypal, taking, elavon, techcrunch, online.
• Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Payment Processing - Bringing in sales is important for any ecommerce store, but an aspect that’s often overlooked is how to bring the…
  Topics: wordpress, gateways, fees, payments, customer, pay, payment, need, credit, processor, know, card, processing.
• FIS will acquire Worldpay for over 30 billion euros - Fidelity National Information Services, a major financial service technology company from the US, has announced it will acquire Worldpay for over 30 billion euros. It’s the largest deal to date in the quickly growing electronic payments industry. The fintech sector is still growing very hard. Consultants at McKinsey think that… Continue reading
  Topics: revenue, acquire, euros, billion, presence, worldpay, financial, guide, fis, payments, global.
• Facebook is discontinuing P2P payments in Messenger in the UK and France on June 15 - Facebook is pulling away from its ambitions to provide peer-to-peer money transfers via Messenger in Europe. Today, the company announced that it would be discontinuing the service — which let individuals send money to each other — in the two countries in the region where it had rolled it out, the U.K. and France, on […]
  Topics: messenger, company, europe, payments, service, discontinuing, money, p2p, send, uk, france, facebook.
• Flexible B2B Ecommerce Payments Are Easier than Ever. What Are You Waiting For? - Can we be frank for a minute?  Too many B2B firms are falling behind the payment technology curve, putting their…
  Topics: buyer, ecommerce, buyers, easier, sellers, payment, flexible, payments, b2b, credit, waiting, trade, seller.
• Flutterwave and Alipay partner on payments between Africa and China - San Francisco and Lagos-based fintech startup Flutterwave has partnered with Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba’s Alipay to offer digital payments between Africa and China.
  Topics: digital, alibabas, africa, network, flutterwave, companies, partner, payments, china, alipay.
• For 2020, Multiple Payment Options Are Essential - Offering multiple forms of payment, especially for mobile shoppers, will be key in 2020. The payment methods your store accepts can make or break a sale. There are five main types of payments for ecommerce sites. Merchants should offer all of them.
  Topics: options, payments, credit, mobile, multiple, pay, shoppers, payment, allow, essential, card, types, purchases.
• Fraud Protect for Shopify Payments: Secure Orders Automatically - Dealing with fraud can cost you product, time, and money. That’s why we’re happy to share that Fraud Protect for Shopify Payments is available in the U.S. for select merchants. It’s an automatic way to protect orders, so you can focus on fulfilment and growing your business.More
  Topics: automatically, chargeback, payments, protected, fraud, secure, shopify, order, fulfill, protect, spent, orders.
• Here’s what’s new in WooCommerce 4.1 - TL;DR: A new update is available for WooCommerce! When you’re ready, update via your WordPress Dashboard. To make the process as smooth as possible, view our documentation on how to update, make a backup, update your extensions, and then update WooCommerce. WooCommerce 4.1 has arrived! This release represents the next step in our mission to […]
  Topics: heres, store, extensions, manage, customers, whats, payments, marketing, help, woocommerce, business, update.
• Honestbee Taiwan suspends services - Singaporean grocery-delivery service Honestbee is “temporarily closing” its Taiwan operations as it focuses on its core Southeast Asian markets
  Topics: reports, team, suspends, taiwan, suspended, singapore, operations, temporarily, honestbee, services, payments, problems.
• How Businesses Can Process Payments Without Stress - If you can reliably provide customers with peace of mind during checkout, you'll come out on top.
  Topics: customers, processing, stress, youll, system, paymentprocessing, process, checkout, businesses, options, payment, payments.
• How Small Businesses Can Take Advantage of the Australian Stimulus Package - In light of the evolving situation around the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian Government has released a number of economic responses to support individuals, households and businesses and improve stability in this particularly volatile environment.
  Topics: stimulus, advantage, payment, support, apply, coronavirus, package, need, business, reduced, payments, businesses, small, australian.
• How to Receive Payments Online for Free - If you're not offering your customers multiple ways to make payments online, you're leaving money on the table. While there's no way to escape some transaction fees and currency fees, there are ways to reduce payment processing costs and receive payments online for free.
  Topics: online, payments, receive, mobile, accept, way, payment, software, recurring, set, processing, free.
• How “Buy Now, Pay Later” Options Can Help Your Business - Customers appreciate the option to pay in installments. For stores, this means more sales and better margins. Here’s how to get started without any risk.
  Topics: pay, payments, customers, later, customer, option, offering, monthly, options, payment, business, buy, online, help.
• Increase Sales With These Market-Expansion Strategies - Expanding into new markets brings great opportunities and sometimes unexpected challenges. Here are some areas to research before deciding the next steps for your business. Though the world has become more interconnected thanks to the internet, air travel, and other technological advancements, there are still many local cultural, economic, and geographic differences. And while tapping […]
  Topics: payments, important, markets, increase, market, ad, rules, countries, fraud, business, sales, strategies, expansion, local, country.
• Introducing the Shopify Retail Kit: Unify Your Online and Offline Business - The Shopify Retail Kit is a fully-featured set of hardware designed help you deliver top-notch service in store. Manage your entire business in one place, with no barriers between in-person and online sales.More
  Topics: experience, chip, kit, retail, reader, announcing, tap, store, online, stand, payments, shopify.
• Irish consumers increasingly use card payments - Consumers in Ireland are rapidly increasing their usage of card payments. At the same time, paying with cash is getting less popular. The fast growth in popularity of card payments goes hand in hand with a significant increase in online shopping in the past year. This is shown by new… Continue reading
  Topics: card, irish, increase, billion, euros, payments, credit, million, debit, period, increasingly, consumers, spending.
• J.P. Morgan processes 30% of online transactions in Europe - J.P. Morgan was named the number one ecommerce acquirer, by web transaction volume, in Europe. When the overall transaction volume is taken into account, the financial services provider happens to be the fourth largest merchant acquirer in Europe. This is shown by the Nilson Report, which brings news and statistics… Continue reading
  Topics: morgan, acquirer, transactions, europe, services, jp, growth, merchants, online, processes, payments.
• January 2019 Top 10: Our Most Popular Posts - Practical Ecommerce publishes roughly 45 articles per month. Our mission, since 2005, is to publish independent content — articles, podcasts, seminars — that help online merchants. What follows are the most popular articles that we published in January. Articles published earlier in the month are more likely to make the list than later ones.
  Topics: tools, payments, list, read, paypal, customers, search, posts, popular, content, free, articles.
• Klarna and Mollie will partner in Europe - Payments companies Klarna and Mollie will work together more intensively in Europe. As of today, the payment solutions from Klarna will be available as standard for the more than 55,000 customers Mollie has in Europe. The partnership, which was just announced, will be in force in the Netherlands, Austria, Germany Continue reading
  Topics: klarna, payment, partnership, europe, partner, finland, methods, germany, payments, customers, solutions, mollie.
• Klarna raises $460 million, looks to expand its payments presence in the US - Swedish payments provider Klarna has announced a new round of equity funding, adding $460 million at a post-money valuation of $5.5 billion, which makes it one of the most highly valued private fintech companies in the world. The new funding will be used to help Klarna continue to grow its presence in the U.S. payments […]
  Topics: raises, pay, looks, customers, klarna, purchase, techcrunch, credit, funding, expand, company, presence, using, rate, payments, million, value.
• Magento Introduces Magento Payments - Addresses Merchants’ Biggest Payments Challenges: Improved Conversions, Cash Flow Management, and Fraud Guarantee.
  Topics: magento, introduces, options, fraud, payment, security, online, management, merchants, payments, reconciliation.
• Mall vacancy rates in the Philippines set to rise - Mall vacancy rates in the Philippines will rise to 12 per cent this year, predicts real estate consultancy company Colliers.
  Topics: philippines, cent, rise, retailers, covid19, online, pandemic, payments, vacancy, set, rates, mall.
• Manage Payments Directly in the WooCommerce Dashboard - Running a store just got easier with WooCommerce Payments. Manage transactions from your WordPress dashboard & allow customers to pay directly on your site.
  Topics: account, dashboard, payments, cards, manage, store, win, directly, pay, deposit, woocommerce, transactions, theres.
• Microservices and payments: what you need to know - With their smaller, independent code bases and robust APIs, microservices allow you flexibility to extend commerce to new touchpoints and satisfy unique requirements. But should Payments be built as microservices?
  Topics: platform, touchpoints, microservices, need, code, payment, build, commerce, payments, api, service, know.
• Mobile Payments Streamline Brick-and-mortar Checkout - The checkout counter at brick-and-mortar stores can have long lines. Mobile payment acceptance allows merchants to process credit and debit card transactions from anywhere and not necessarily at a counter.
  Topics: mobile, brickandmortar, devices, checkout, require, merchants, receipts, accept, mpos, payments, payment, streamline, store.
• Mobile payments app Payconiq wants to expand in Europe - Payconiq, a mobile payment app supported by several Benelux banks, wants to expand further in Europe. To achieve this goal, it just raised 20 million euros in a funding round led by its existing shareholders. With the money, Payconiq wants to become the European alternative to Mastercard and Visa. The… Continue reading
  Topics: european, payconiq, europe, wants, alternative, visa, mobile, mastercard, app, payments, payment, expand.
• New Electronic Disbursement Methods Save Time and Money - Businesses have expenses to pay. “Paying the bills” might not seem interesting or new. but recent innovations make disbursements faster, cheaper, safer, and more convenient.
  Topics: visa, fees, employees, subcontractors, commissions, save, disbursement, methods, transfers, pay, funds, payments, money, electronic, bank.
• Online remote payments for digital and physical goods to hit $6 trillion - New research shows the total transaction value of online remote payments for digital and physical goods will exceed US$6 trillion by 2024.
  Topics: remote, transaction, digital, payments, trillion, retailers, research, mobile, cent, hit, online, goods, physical.
• Otto introduces instant payments - Online retailer Otto says it’s the first ecommerce company in Germany that enables instant payments for its customers. Thanks to a cooperation with Hanseatic Bank, Otto claims it’s able to offer a better service, like faster delivery, now customers can transfer money instantly. The Otto Group has partnered with the… Continue reading
  Topics: money, hanseatic, group, otto, offer, german, instant, ecommerce, introduces, bank, payments.
• PayPal makes a big marketplace play with its $500M investment in Uber - Uber’s announcement of its IPO pricing earlier today came with a $500 million belated Easter egg. The payments giant PayPal is making a half-billion-dollar investment in the company, paying $47 per share, which gives the company a valuation of $78.8 billion (in the middle of the range of Uber’s IPO pricing of $44-$50 per share). […]
  Topics: payments, big, network, services, marketplace, investment, uber, paypal, makes, companies, 500m, company, ubers, techcrunch, play.
• PayPal to invest $750M, and Dragoneer $100M, into MercadoLibre, Argentina’s e-commerce powerhouse - It’s not only SoftBank that’s eyeing up the opportunity to tap into the quickly expanding market for e-commerce in Latin America. MercadoLibre, a marketplace and financial services powerhouse based out of Argentina and serving 18 countries across the region, has announced that PayPal is investing $750 million, and investment firm Dragoneer another $100 million, as part […]
  Topics: mercadolibre, payments, paypal, million, region, growth, argentinas, ecommerce, powerhouse, 750m, 100m, latin, invest, billion, dragoneer, financial.
• PayU acquires Zooz to take on international payment services - A week after PayPal led a $50 million round in the cross-border payment specialist PPRO, one of its big competitors in the developing world has announced an acquisition of its own in the same space. PayU — the payments division of Naspers that is sometimes described as the PayPal of the developing world — has acquired […]
  Topics: methods, acquires, potentially, zooz, million, merchants, payments, options, payment, services, international, payu.
• Payment Depot Reviews: Monthly Memberships for Payments - It's a good idea to look at Payment Depot reviews like this one, because it truly is one of the most transparent payment processors. If you like membership pricing, Payment Depot provides a system where you pay a monthly membership… Continue reading Payment Depot Reviews: Monthly Memberships for Payments
  Topics: memberships, depot, monthly, card, transaction, membership, support, payment, fees, payments, fee, reviews, sales, month.
• Payments Europe wants to present European payments industry - Payments Europe is a new association, formed by European and global card-based payment solution providers. The new organization wants to present the industry’s common views and advocate for a fair regulatory environment in Europe. Payments Europe is currently formed by 13 card issuers, card acquirers, card schemes and other stakeholders… Continue reading
  Topics: europe, association, present, european, cardbased, wants, card, payment, payments, industry.
• Payments giant Stripe debuts a credit card in its latest step into the financing fray - Last week, when the popular payments startup Stripe made some waves with its first move into money lending through the launch of Stripe Capital, we reported that the company was also soon going to be launching a credit card. Now, that news is official. Today, the company is doubling down on financing with the launch […]
  Topics: business, fray, stripe, techcrunch, latest, data, step, products, credit, product, payments, giant, financing, debuts, card, capital, cards.
• Payoneer acquires German payments company Optile - Payoneer has acquired Optile, a German payment platform that gives businesses access to any payment method and provider. With the acquisition, Payoneer wants to further build a platform that drives global growth for enterprises, marketplaces and small and medium-sized business worldwide. With Optile’s payment platform and its single API, merchants… Continue reading
  Topics: payments, merchants, payoneer, business, optiles, company, optile, acquires, wants, partners, data, platform, payment, german.
• Paystack Review – Payments Solution for Africa - This Paystack review covers all the important elements- its features, capabilities, pricing, and the target user base. We’re currently in a revolutionary ecommerce age. So they say. And I have to give it to them. Because going by the current… Continue reading Paystack Review – Payments Solution for Africa
  Topics: africa, paystack, online, ecommerce, bank, solution, ngn, payment, businesses, customers, payments, platform.
• Paystack, with ambitions to become the Stripe of Africa, raises $8M from Visa, Tencent… and Stripe itself - Africa has been one of the least-developed regions globally when it comes to technology and being on the less advanced side of the so-called digital divide. But with a huge population and a set of nations whose economies are rapidly changing, we are seeing a significant knock-on effect in tech. Today, one of the more […]
  Topics: money, tencent, mobile, startup, market, raises, 8m, paystack, africa, number, ambitions, payment, stripe, payments, services, visa.
• Rapyd nabs $40M led by Stripe and GC for ‘fintech as a service,’ a single API for payments, money transfer and more - As ever more transactions move onto digital platforms, a startup that is building a Swiss army knife of financial services — from payments to currency transfers, ID verifications and card issuing for companies to use by way of a single API — is announcing funding. Rapyd, a “fintech as a service” startup akin to AWS for […]
  Topics: rapyd, gc, services, transfer, stripe, company, fintech, single, funds, payments, service, led, startups, nabs, money, startup, transfers.
• Running a Subscription-Based Business? Consider Chargebee: A Complete Review - The stats speak for themselves; as many as 15% of online shoppers at one point or another have signed up to receive a product-based monthly subscription. So, if you're an entrepreneur looking for a new venture, now's the time to… Continue reading Running a Subscription-Based Business? Consider Chargebee: A Complete Review
  Topics: running, customer, complete, payment, chargebee, offers, subscriptionbased, users, consider, subscription, payments, business, youre, review, youll, customers.
• Shopify sees revenue increase by 59 percent - Shopify has passed the 1 billion dollar revenue mark. The company’s full revenue growth for 2018 reached 1.073 billion dollars, which corresponds to 950 million euros. This revenue mark is a 59 percent increase from the situation last year. Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify, is very happy with the milestone.… Continue reading
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• Shopify's Tap & Chip Card Reader Is Now Available in Canada—Accept Safe and Convenient Contactless Payments - As retail stores start to re-open around the country and business owners prepare for the future of retail, we’re bringing contactless payments hardware to Canadian with the Shopify Tap & Chip Card Reader. Coupled with the Shopify Retail Kit and Shopify Tap & Chip Case, Canadian retailers can provide mobile checkout experiences and serve their customers anywhere, whether in-store or curbside. More
  Topics: canadaaccept, tap, checkout, pos, retail, convenient, card, reader, shopifys, safe, contactless, chip, shopify, payments, pay.
• Social commerce startup Goxip lands $1.4M investment to add flexible payments - Social e-commerce startup Goxip raised $5 million in January, and now the Hong Kong-based business has brought in more cash with a strategic $1.4 million investment from financial services company Convoy. Existing backers including Chinese photo app company Meitu also took part. Convoy offers a range of services that include asset management, insurance and other […]
  Topics: flexible, hong, goxip, commerce, investment, add, gimenez, 14m, payments, service, lands, social, rewardsnap, options, convoy, million, company, startup, instagram.
• SoftBank to invest $1B into German digital payments provider Wirecard in new fintech partnership - SoftBank is making a huge investment into one of the providers of the kind of digital commerce infrastructure that underpins many of the companies that it backs. Today, Wirecard — a digital payments provider based out of Germany — announced that SoftBank Group is investing around €900 million ($1 billion) as part of a broader […]
  Topics: vision, billion, investment, digital, techcrunch, provider, wirecard, fintech, german, payments, fund, partnership, invest, million, services, softbank.
• South Korea’s Coupang secures $2 billion funding - South Korea’s Coupan, the fast-growing e-commerce firm, will receive an investment of US$2 billion from the SoftBank Vision Fund.
  Topics: koreas, secures, billion, softbank, investment, payments, platform, logistics, ecommerce, customers, million, coupang, south, funding.
• Square Cash Review: The Painless Payment App (July 2019) - It's becoming increasingly less common for people to carry cash. We're all so used to flashing our phone for contactless payments, or simply handing over a piece of plastic whenever we need to make a purchase. In 2013, PayPal purchased… Continue reading Square Cash Review: The Painless Payment App (July 2019)
  Topics: need, business, account, square, cash, using, youre, painless, app, review, payments, payment.
• Square POS Review: Everything You Need to Know (June 2019) - Need to know more about the Square POS? If you run a physical (brick and mortar) store, then there are few tools more important than your point of sale system. This combination of hardware and software will ensure that you… Continue reading Square POS Review: Everything You Need to Know (June 2019)
  Topics: customers, review, square, system, payments, pos, inventory, need, plus, know, payment, hardware, cents.
• Square reports Q1 sales of $489M, up 59%, but net loss widens to $38M - After Square issued weak guidance in Q4, all eyes were on the payments company to see what kind of growth it really had in Q1. Results reported today underscored some of the challenges the company is facing. Square’s adjusted revenues were $489 million, up 59% year-on-year, with adjusted earnings per share of $0.11. Both figures beat analysts’ estimates. […]
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• Stripe acquires Touchtech, updates APIs to prep for strong customer authentication in Europe - Stripe, the payments powerhouse that is now valued at $22.5 billion, has made an acquisition to help it gear up for new regulations in Europe that will be rolled out later this year to improve security in online transactions. It has acquired Touchtech Payments, a startup out of Ireland that works with banks to help […]
  Topics: apis, updates, stripe, authentication, europe, banks, strong, acquires, touchtech, payments, prep, merchants, sca, customer, stripes, customers, transactions.
• Stripe expands to 5 new markets in Europe - Stripe has expanded its payment services in Europe. The American tech company is now generally available in the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Malta. The payments company can now support businesses in 29 countries across Europe. Europe is a very interesting market for Stripe, as 75 percent of all… Continue reading
  Topics: europe, markets, startup, started, software, company, european, businesses, payments, stripe, processed, expands.
• The Ultimate Guide To Square Fees for 2019 - The most probable answer to why you might be a little curious about Square's fees is the need to use a safe mobile payment method. If I want to handle payment processing with more precision, this is the first stopover… Continue reading The Ultimate Guide To Square Fees for 2019
  Topics: fees, point, dont, payment, pay, ultimate, payments, square, need, lets, guide, business.
• The Ultimate Guide to AirPOS Point of Sale System (ePOS) – Complete Review - If I want to see my retail business flourish, I must be shrewd on how I handle mobile transactions. As a merchant, this is the question which ultimately comes up. Is my enterprise fully fledged to require a diverse system… Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to AirPOS Point of Sale System (ePOS) – Complete Review
  Topics: ultimate, payments, airpos, guide, business, point, lets, need, sale, card, complete, vat, app, lease, system, epos, hardware, review.
• The state of digital payments in B2B ecommerce - It’s long been said today’s B2B buyers want and expect a B2C experience from manufacturers and wholesalers. Though B2B suppliers are increasingly embracing digital -- from ecatalogs to configure price quote (CPQ) and online checkout, supporting the diversity and complexity of B2B payments remains a challenge. How are B2B merchants handling digital payments?
  Topics: payments, b2b, suppliers, payment, state, purchase, checks, buyers, cards, ecommerce, credit, virtual, digital.
• Top 10 Get Elastic articles of 2019 - A yearly recap of the top ecommerce articles covered on Get Elastic in 2019. Check out what you might have missed.
  Topics: payments, customer, elastic, chatbot, voice, pay, articles, commerce, learn, ecommerce, apple, trends.
• U.S. Stimulus Package 2020: Everything You Need to Know - On March 27, President Donald Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act. This $2 trillion U.S. stimulus package is the largest emergency relief bill in American history. The bill plans to help people, families, businesses, and the economy cope with the […]
  Topics: receive, know, package, bank, money, payments, stimulus, irs, check, tax, help, need.
• UK is the third largest mcommerce market in the world - The United Kingdom is the third largest mobile commerce market in the world. Mcommerce in the UK is worth 55.9 billion euros. With this mobile sales figure, the European country ranks third world wide, with only China (652.6 billion euros) and the US (183.2 billion euros) performing better. This is… Continue reading
  Topics: euros, mobile, payments, largest, ewallets, market, mcommerce, worldpay, world, consumers, billion, uk.
• VibePay opens up its APIs to businesses - Payments platform VibePay has opened up its APIs for bank-to-bank payments and subscription payments, making payments available for retailers, businesses and SMEs. The move comes after the UK-based company secured about 1.4 million euros in funding. As of today, VibePay makes its payments available for businesses. By opening up its… Continue reading
  Topics: apis, wants, million, businesses, banking, subscription, payments, euros, vibe, opens, vibepay, company.
• Visa partners with Paga on payments and fintech for Africa and abroad - Visa has entered a partnership with Nigeria based startup Paga on payments and technology.
  Topics: visa, startup, abroad, paga, fintech, work, payments, africa, partners, nigeria, network.
• WhatsApp eyes lending feature in India as Amazon rolls out Pay Later to tens of thousands of customers - WhatsApp, which began testing its mobile payments feature in India two years ago, could offer at least one more financial service to people in its biggest market. In a filing with the local regulator in India, the Facebook -owned messaging platform has listed credit as one of the areas it will pursue in the country. […]
  Topics: india, local, credit, rolls, lending, payments, thousands, users, tens, service, later, whatsapp, feature, techcrunch, amazon, pay.
• Why Service-Based Businesses Should Use WooCommerce - Learn how to run a more efficient online business; enjoy unlimited, customized options; and delight your customers when you sell services with WooCommerce.
  Topics: set, woocommerce, youre, add, payments, businesses, service, clients, services, product, servicebased, customers.
• WooCommerce launches native WooCommerce Payments feature - WooCommerce, the e-commerce platform developed by Automattic, is improving the payment feature with a native solution called WooCommerce Payments. The payment feature is powered by Stripe. Compared to previous payment solutions on WooCommerce websites, it is fully integrated with the rest of the platform. In case you’re not familiar with Automattic, it is also the […]
  Topics: using, native, wordpress, launches, payments, websites, payment, techcrunch, fees, woocommerce, stripe, feature, theres.
• WorldRemit raises $175M at $900M+ valuation to help users send money to contacts in emerging markets - The value of remittances globally continues to rise, and today a startup that has built a business targeting money transfers into emerging markets has raised a large round of growth funding to capitalize on that. WorldRemit, the London startup that has focused on enabling competitively-priced, quick money transfers from migrant workers and immigrants living in […]
  Topics: countries, techcrunch, emerging, worldremit, million, send, help, payments, money, raises, company, markets, round, users, remittances, valuation, business.
• Worldline to buy Ingenico for $8.6B in major payments consolidation play - Some consolidation is afoot among the payments behemoths of Europe. Smaller, newer fintech companies are eating into their market dominance by adapting faster to changing spending habits, while also looking to capitalize on economies of scale. Today Worldline, a financial services company that provides everything from in-store point-of-sale terminals through to online payments, data analytics, […]
  Topics: company, worldline, play, consolidation, deal, fintech, scale, major, 86b, payment, techcrunch, companies, payments, billion, buy, ingenico.
• Your Go-To Gumroad Review (June 2019) - Looking for a simple shopping cart that will transform your business? You've come to the right place. Launched in 2011, Gumroad is a straightforward shopping experience that helps you to start selling products instantly. In recent years, Gumroad has become… Continue reading Your Go-To Gumroad Review (June 2019)
  Topics: review, ecommerce, sell, offers, youll, software, products, payments, gumroad, payment, customers, goto.
• eBay offers Managed Payments in Germany - eBay is introducing its Managed Payments offering in Germany, making this the second country, after the United States, where eBay gives consumers flexibility and choice in payment methods. With this solution, eBay managed the payments transactions, which means consumers are able to complete their purchases all on eBay. Another result… Continue reading
  Topics: paypal, managed, payment, offers, germany, payments, ebay, guide, variety, consumers, experience.
• eBay offers managed payments in UK - eBay will introduce its managed payments experience in the United Kingdom, making this the third market to offer the new payments experience, after the US and Germany. The service offers buyers flexibility and choice in payment methods, while giving sellers a better way to manage their businesses. eBay is busy… Continue reading
  Topics: managed, payments, experience, ebay, united, sellers, offer, smooth, offers, payment, uk.