If you’ve ever visited a store and tried to purchase something, but realized that they only take cash when you get to the register, you know how frustrating the experience can be. While many businesses offer the option to pay with a variety of methods, some...
If there’s one thing you hear a lot these days, it’s probably that retail is changing. For a while, people believed online shopping would mean the end of in-person or brick-and-mortar stores. What’s instead happened is that the line between online...
In response to a then-growing number of fraudulent credit card purchases, major credit card issuers like American Express, Mastercard, Visa and Discover began transitioning to EMV chip cards in the United States in 2015. EMV is shorthand for Europay, Mastercard and...
If you’re a local business, you might feel that your standing in the community and local marketing strategies are enough. While that might be true, if you ever want to grow and protect yourself against the threat of larger competitors, you need an online...
Even if you’re too young to remember, we can assure you — debit and credit cards haven’t always been the preferred way to pay for things. Cash used to be king at the register — even though it’s been largely displaced from its throne in favor of credit and debit cards...
Small, independently owned businesses continue to be the backbone of the American economy — as they have been for generations. While startups led by Millennials may be quick to adopt technology—which may be the basis for their very existence in some cases—more...
You have a passion for food and you’ve decided to share that appetite for cuisine by opening your own restaurant. While fresh ingredients and innovative plates may be what you think your business is based on, hospitality is very competitive. To thrive, you need to...
As e-commerce grows and more consumers make purchases on the internet, payment gateways are becoming essential for all online businesses. In terms of sales growth, customer loyalty and market expansion on an international scale, the benefits of payment gateways are...
Beautiful things can come in small packages. If you run a small business, you can still enjoy big success, especially with today’s tools and technologies. Today’s tech is more affordable than ever before, and some of it is specifically geared toward small businesses,...
For businesses, a chargeback on a credit card purchase a customer has made can be stressful. It can mean losing money and often not knowing why a customer decided to order the chargeback instead of returning a product or trying to resolve the dispute with the...
