Category: Payment Processing
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Your Payment Gateway Is a Powerful Fraud Prevention Tool
Fraud is something most e-commerce business owners are familiar with – whether it be chargebacks, false orders, or other methods. There are many different tools that can help your business prevent and protect against fraud – however payment gateways are one of the most powerful and understated tools. Payment Gateway Fraud You might think that…
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RIP Square, iPhones as POS Devices — What Merchants Need to Do Next
Square built it’s merchant empire by providing (at the time) easy-to-use dongles that turned your smartphone into a point-of-sale (POS) device. Over the years, those devices have been upgraded to fit other pieces of technology including tablets like iPads, more operating systems like iOS and Android, and target more merchant categories. How many times have…
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The TRUTH About Payment Gateways – Are You Using the Right One?
There are many payment gateways, payment processors and merchant services for business owners to choose from. Not all are equal and it can be difficult to tell the difference between them. It can even be difficult to differentiate what separates a payment processor from a payment gateway from a merchant account. These terms are often…
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Is Shopify Payments the Same as Stripe?
If you’re an online store owner looking for a payment processor to help you accept credit cards, you have likely come across two of the biggest names in credit card processing: Shopify Payments and Stripe. From the start, it seems like those two providers are competing head-to-head with each other. They have different names, signing up…
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FAQ: Why You Have So Many International Declined Transactions
A common question we get from (understandably frustrated) sellers in Canada and Australia involves declined transactions. “My approval ratio is high, so why do I get so many declined transactions when selling to Americans?” Do you have this issue, too? There’s no doubt about the frustration and rage you might be feeling when customers get…
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