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From Obligation to Opportunity: Make Compliance Your Biggest USP

Retail TouchPoints

The challenging economic environment, intense regulatory pressure and ever-present threat of fraud are creating a perfect storm that’s sweeping across the global payments landscape. Instead of seeing compliance as a painful obligation, it’s time to see it as a springboard for innovation, expansion and collaboration.

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FTC’s ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Proposal: A Step Forward for the Negative Option Model

Retail TouchPoints

So-called “negative option” services are a controversial yet time-tested method of doing business. Under this model, a customer signs up for a subscription service, typically as part of a free trial offer. The customer is then charged on an ongoing basis unless they explicitly cancel the service in question.

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Top 10 International Payment Gateways: An In-Depth Guide

FastSpring

Many companies that expand globally reach a point where they can’t properly support their international customers with their current payment platform. An international payment gateway can help with some of these issues, but it’s only one piece of the puzzle. What is an international payment gateway? Table of Contents.

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How to Start a Subscription Business that Works

Ecommerce Platforms

From Birchbox to Dollar Shave Club, and Kiwi Crate to Netflix, we seem to live in a world of subscriptions, whether it be for software, movies, clothing, food, or whatever else you don't mind paying for with a monthly subscription. There's a reason so many subscription-based business models seem to be popping up.

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Shopify Payments vs Stripe (2023): Choosing a Payment Processor

Ecommerce Platforms

Shopify Payments vs Stripe: Which solution should you really be using for your ecommerce store? Both Shopify Payments and Stripe offer very similar services to business owners. Both allow you to accept and process payments online, ensuring your ecommerce company can make a profit. What is Shopify Payments?

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Square vs PayPal (Dec 2019): Clash of the Payment Processing Titans

Ecommerce Platforms

Whether you’re searching for an offline card reader, a way to take credit card payments online , or a POS app, you’ve probably come across both PayPal and Square in the past. Both Square and PayPal are incredibly popular tools for merchants and business owners. Square vs PayPal: Fees and Processing Rates. Square Fees.

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Everything You Need to Know About WooCommerce Payment Gateways

SellBrite

The average rate of cart abandonment among shoppers is 69.8%, and of the reasons given, 6 out of 10 are related to payments, according to Baymard Institute. However, once the buyer has decided to purchase, there comes the next all-important step — payments. What are WooCommerce payment gateways? Image Source.