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What is a Virtual Merchant?
A virtual merchant is a website that sells goods and services to the public via online transactions with debit and credit card processing. The end result is a fully online experience where consumers can virtually visit a store to browse goods, purchase them fully...
Four Tips to Prevent Ecommerce Credit Card Processing Fraud
Credit card fraud can cost small businesses as much as twice the original amount of the transaction because of lost merchandise, investigations and chargeback fees. Even when the fraud is uncovered, it's a costly, frustrating and time-consuming situation for...
What Are Payment Gateways and Payment Processors?
Are you ready to start an online store? While it’s an important decision to make for your business, it can be challenging to determine which payment service is the best for your eCommerce business. To help you make that decision, this post will go through what payment...
Payment Gateways: 10 Questions to Find the Right One for You
What is a payment gateway? The main job of a payment gateway is to validate your customer’s credit card details securely, make sure the funds are available for the payment and get you paid. A payment gateway is a service that authorizes credit card payments for online...
What’s the Difference Between a Virtual Terminal and a Payment Gateway?
The payment processing industry has a lot of jargon that can completely bewilder even the sharper tools in the shed. It’s not uncommon to be a bit confused, especially when you’re shopping around for payment solutions. Let’s make it simple. Two common entities in the...
Essential Tools to Fighting Online Payment Fraud
Online fraud is a persistent, major threat to businesses globally. As e-commerce transactions grow exponentially, so has the prevalence of fraudulent dealings. According to a Juniper Research paper, online frauds incurred businesses US$25.6 billion in losses globally...
Four Ways in-Branch Banking Tech Will Uplift Customer Experience
We are currently watching an influx of new challenger banks into the UK market. A good part of the reason is down to changing customer preferences for online banking’s speed and convenience. For sure, when it comes to customer satisfaction levels, they’re surpassing...
4 Things Businesses Should Take More Seriously When Accepting Payment Online
Here are some stats that might surprise you. 85% of Malaysians seek out e-commerce services on a daily basis. More than 38.2 million online transactions were processed last year compared to 14.6 million transactions in 2015. Malaysia has the highest penetration of...
EMV Chip Cards: The Complete Guide For Small Businesses
EMV chip cards offer increased fraud protection to consumers, merchants and card issuers. If you haven't yet migrated your business's credit card processing equipment to an EMV-capable terminal or card reader, you need to start the process so that you can protect your...
Is A High Risk Merchant Account Right For Your Business?
In today’s increasingly cashless society, businesses must have the capability to process credit and debit card payments to serve their customers. However, many businesses in industries deemed as “high risk”, by banks and other entities offering credit card processing...