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Trends Analysis: Should eCommerce Brands Get Serious About Crypto Payments?

ESW

What about payments, though? While brands and retailers can accept crypto payments today, that doesn’t mean it’s viable. Volatility is a significant roadblock preventing cryptocurrency from becoming a practical payment method, writes the team at Blockpit.io. Few people are going to use it as a payment method, anyway.

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A Small Business Guide to Handling Cross-Border Payments

Korona

More and more businesses of all stripes are hiring more remote work, and some of that remote work is found internationally. This trend is no longer unique to enterprise companies. Small businesses can now easily find employees across the world for both part-time contract work and full-time positions. Credit card payments.

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Gartner Predicts COVID Will Accelerate These Top 5 Digital Commerce Trends

GetElastic

Uncertainty around the virus has kept the doors to traditional brick-and-mortar stores shut for most of the past year, forcing buyers and sellers alike to adopt new digital purchasing pathways, both in-store and online. Is your business set up to take advantage of these trends? Diversified Revenue Sources.

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Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin and Blockchain in Ecommerce

Ecommerce Platforms

There are several trends influencing the ecommerce industry as a whole, but arguably the most visible of these is bitcoin. When it comes to payment processors in ecommerce sites, the talk used to be about credit cards, PayPal, COD (cash on delivery), et al. But now it’s shifting towards bitcoins and digital currencies.

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eCommerce and Cryptocurrency: Helping SMBs Navigate a Changing Payment Landscape

Korona

Major brands such as Home Depot and Microsoft have begun accepting crypto as part of their eCommerce payment options. Also, processors like Paypal now have crypto gateways accepting many different coins. But how does this affect small businesses? What eCommerce Platforms Have Integrated Crypto Payment Plugins?

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Trends Analysis: Why Cryptocurrency May Still Be Important for eCommerce

ESW

Digital currencies like Bitcoin are helping both private users and online merchants to experience a whole new world of monetary exchange with complete ease,” eCommerce consultant Darshit Parmar writes. His company has been accepting Bitcoin as a payment method for a half decade. Bitcoin certainly has its drawbacks, though.

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The 19 Ecommerce Growth Challenges of 2018, Outlined by Amazon’s Annual Report

BigCommerce

Amazon Customer Base, Revenue & Shipping Data. Some of the biggest highlights of Amazon’s Annual Report were company insights shared for the very first time – like information around membership and revenue around Amazon Prime, the company’s subscription service. billion in subscription revenue. Industry trends.