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7 Brands Discuss the Benefits of the New Cashless Economy and Apple Pay’s Growing Ubiquity

BigCommerce

From crypto-currencies to peer-topper payments and one-click checkouts, modern innovations are shifting the basic payment infrastructure of our economy. Adii Pienaar, Founder of Conversio and WooThemes (later acquired by WooCommerce), sums this up best: Customers worldwide are using their mobile devices for online shopping more often.

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Best Platform to Sell Online in 2020: An In-Depth Analysis

Ecommerce Platforms

Whereas a standard website platform/builder has features for adding pages and posts and menus, an ecommerce platform takes it a step further by including product management, shipping tools, payment processing, and more. Some other elements that add more costs include third-party apps, hosting, domain names, and processing fees.

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From Retail to e-Tail: How to Launch an Ecommerce Website for Your Brick-and-Mortar

BigCommerce

For Tahnee Elliott, identifying and servicing her primary market was especially easy. Ideally, your inventory or services should be strategically chosen to appeal to a broader audience—especially when you’re just starting out. Before anything else, you need to answer the following questions: Who are your primary customers?

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The Best Buy Now Pay Later Apps

Ecommerce Platforms

The number of buy now pay later apps continues to increase as demand for financing services increases. In most cases, the installments are usually interest-free, but that depends on the payment plan. Afterpay is a popular buy now pay later service that was founded in 2014. Email and text reminders for payments.

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Digital Wallets and Cryptocurrency: DTC Brands Must Prepare for the Future of Money

ESW

There has been a lot of hype, especially in recent years, about the impact digitally native currencies and digitally native payment processes could have on eCommerce. The question has as much to do with other forms of digital payment processes as it does with cryptocurrency itself. Why fix them?

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Wine Ecommerce: How To Sell & Ship Wine in 2018

BigCommerce

has been the highest consumer of wine in the world since 2014. The required documentation to sell wine from an online store depends on the state in which you operate as well as the states to which you ship. Your international shipments will go through multiple processing centers as well as travel in several different types of vehicles.

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How a Passion for Improving Lives Abroad Helped One Couple Build a Thriving Wholesale Fair Trade Ecommerce Business

SellBrite

You could barely get payment processing, especially if you were outside of the U.S.”. While most businesses were going the traditional route to grow their businesses, Ward and Jones grew their business in the early days by continuing to double-down on what they knew best—technology, processes, and their online store.