Cashless Quest: Visa Challenges Restaurants to Abandon Cash Payments
Last week, Visa announced it was launching a major effort to encourage certain businesses to go cashless. The campaign is aimed at smaller restaurants, giving them increased ability to accept all forms of global digital payments. The Visa Cashless Challenge is a call to action for small business restaurants including cafés and even food trucks […]
Advances In Biometrics
The future of biometrics is coming – and it’s much more than simple fingerprint scans. Methods like those that were once considered advanced and cutting edge have become the norm as more innovative approaches are constantly being developed to keep sensitive data safe from fraudsters while adding convenience for consumers. From voice recognition and facial […]
The Future: A Biometrics Boom?
In the early days of the internet, passwords were relatively friction-free with little incident simply because not many websites used them. As a result, users didn’t have to remember so many of them. Fast forward to now where a majority of sites require user passwords – so many that a recent PYMNTS.com article claimed that […]
Generation Z and the Comeback of Brick and Mortar
With the ease of shopping that today’s e-commerce websites offer and how popular they’ve become, it’s a wonder that traditional brick and mortar stores are able to compete. And while some merchants have found ways to remain competitive by either offering their products and services online or by establishing extremely loyal customer bases, the future […]
Choosing a Payment Gateway for Your Business
Choosing a payment gateway for any business can be an important decision – as crucial as pricing your products or even marketing your business. And while their primary function is to facilitate communication within banks, the truth is that gateways are much more than just software that accepts payments. In today’s digital world, the speed, […]
The Importance of E-commerce, M-commerce, and Your Business
With over half of American consumers now doing most of their shopping online (51%), having a web presence is crucial for any business. And, according to comScore, 44% of smartphone users made purchases through their devices last year, proving that creating a mobile-friendly website will play an important role in the success of businesses going […]
Is it Really Safe to do Business Online?
If you’re a merchant, chances are you’re being deluged with people telling you it is absolutely necessary to sell your goods and services online. “If you’re not selling online, you’re falling behind!” is a popular saying. We can all agree it is definitely reasonable to suggest that every business should have an online presence. But […]
Person-to-Person Money Transfers Reaching New Heights
When it comes to paying another person, there really is no standard way to do so, and many hurdles stand in the way of completing a person-to-person transaction. This is certainly not due to lack of need, however. Roommates splitting rent and the utilities, diners sharing the bill, friends sending monetary gifts for birthdays or […]
Serving Up The Future: Mobile Ordering
It’s no secret that smart phones are literally changing every aspect of our lives. From how we connect with each other to how we find and receive information and even how we buy things, there are really only a handful of things that our phones can’t do. Much of what actually makes our smart phones […]
The Expected Surge of Ecommerce Fraud
Credit card fraud is nothing new to online merchants. Ecommerce has faced the threat of fraud for as long as goods have been sold in the internet. However, with countless new businesses springing up and selling on the web as well as an increasing number of retailers testing the online waters, fraud is bigger and […]