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

Retail TouchPoints

Humans have been dynamically evolving the concept of loans and credit in commerce for hundreds of years — culminating in the explosion of consumer credit cards in the 20th century. consumers have now used a buy now pay later (BNPL) service. . Enter “buy now, pay later,” whose appeal is growing customer bases and revenue channels.

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A Small Business Guide to Handling Cross-Border Payments

Korona

The trend also applies to the consumer side. So retailers, too, need to be prepared to accept payments across borders. And these are mainly found in the process of making cross-border payments. Both businesses and employees have run into problems when trying to complete a cross-border payment. ACH payments.

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How to Navigate Thailand’s New VAT Requirements for Sales of Digital Products and Services

FastSpring

On September 1, 2021, Thailand extended its VAT legislation to cover the supply of digital products and services (e-services) provided by non-resident businesses to Thai consumers. Previously, this type of business was not required to register for VAT. online games, web and mobile applications, software).

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How an Estonia-based SaaS Grew to €10M ARR by Expanding Across 3 Continents?

FastSpring

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Note: If you’re expanding to new regions, we can help.

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API Business Models and How They Future Proof eCommerce

GetElastic

For example, an API that is used to connect your eCommerce platform with a 3rd party payment provider is external but is most definitely not public (which tends to define APIs made available to any developer, anywhere, regardless of source). The way to think about internal vs. external is within the context of firewalls and hosting.

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17 B2B Ecommerce Companies Taking Advantage of a $6.7 Trillion Opportunity (+ How Your Brand Can, Too)

BigCommerce

Their team works with category-leading brands looking to launch B2B as well as Direct-to-Consumer including Cargill, Citizens of Humanity and Dollar Tree. By all the most recent reports, analysts have forecasted that global B2B ecommerce revenue will top $6.7 B2B ecommerce alone had already surpassed $5 trillion in revenue.

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Unified Commerce: Glitter, Gold, Or Empty Promise

OrderDynamics

A simple definition of “retail” is “ a business or person that sells goods to the consumer. Therefore, the retailer’s task must be to at least appear as the most attractive destination for a customer seeking to make a product purchase (=revenue). Unified Commerce: Glitter, Gold, Or Empty Promise? Retail is no different.