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Buy Now, Pay Later: Does it Work for your Online Retail Business?

Retail TouchPoints

Businesses looking for ways to gain a competitive edge over their competitors have been pushing service advantages into new areas, including alternative payment models. Enter “buy now, pay later,” whose appeal is growing customer bases and revenue channels. That’s right — no more chasing after late payments.

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Guarding the Retail Fortress: Cybersecurity Challenges and Network Interruption Risks

Retail TouchPoints

In addition to revenue and reputation impacts, there are costs involved with breaches, from identity theft notification to fines, penalties and potential lawsuits. In 2014, cybercriminals used a third-party vendor’s credentials to enter Home Depot’s network and deployed malware on the self-checkout systems to steal customer information.

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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. Payment gateways – Each method for selling online offers integrations with payment gateways.

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

BigCommerce

Choose your payment methods. There are two things you should keep in mind when choosing your payment methods : What’s the easiest payment method to set up? It can be integrated into your digital marketplace in a couple of minutes and opens you up to a wide range of payment options, including: PayPal/PayPal Credit.

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Square Capital Review (September 2019): Simple Business Loans

Ecommerce Platforms

With square, you can get the daily payments you rely on from your customers without having to worry about overly complicated technology and tools. Square was one of the first companies to roll out a wide range of mobile-friendly payment solutions for modern vendors, including an EMV compliant chip reader for credit and debit cards.

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Everything You Need to Know About Achieving PCI Compliance [Checklist Included]

BigCommerce

56 million card numbers from Home Depot in 2014. This is particularly because many of us maintain large numbers of (supposedly secure) personal online profiles that afford us a convenient way to deal with recurring monthly or annual payments. to fully address the growing threats to customer payment information.

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What is Apple Pay and How Does it Work?

Ecommerce Platforms

In today's increasingly digitized world, where mobile shopping is the norm, we’re spoiled for payment options. After all, most of us have our phones on us at all times, making mobile payments a quick and convenient way of processing transactions. As you probably already know, Apple Pay is Apple’s mobile payment service.