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What Businesses Fail to Do When Selecting a Payment Gateway

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That’s right, the payment gateway is almost always an afterthought to the primary systems that a business is using or considering using, whether it be a point-of-sale (POS) system, e-commerce shopping cart or other applications. Often, business owners or managers spend all their time researching their primary solution and virtually no time understanding the features …

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PayPal Business Options – Accepting PayPal Through Your Site

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The company, once part of eBay, originated as a ‘middle man’ between online sellers and buyers, offering protection. A buyer didn’t have to hand over their credit card information directly to a seller, and both buyer and seller would have a neutral third party to mediate any problems. Since its beginnings almost 20 years ago, …

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Square Connect: Taking Payments Online

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Initially called Square Connect, Square’s website now just refers to online payment options with Square. What is Square Online Payments? The Square online payment options lets businesses with self-hosted / existing e-commerce websites seamlessly integrate their site with Square to accept payments and manage business data on a web-based dashboard. Before this option, there wasn’t …

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Shopify vs. Volusion vs. BigCommerce: What Should You Use?

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There’s a lot to consider when starting your own ecommerce website, but we’ll help sort it out in this comparison guide. We’ll look at the most cost-effective solutions from the three big providers in the ecommerce space, Shopify, BigCommerce, and Volusion. Continue reading for details about monthly fees, transaction costs, payment solutions, marketplaces, social media …

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Braintree vs. Stripe: Which is Better for Online Payments?

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This Braintree vs. Stripe review will cover a number of different facets of the two services to help you make the right choice for your online business. What are online payment gateways? A payment gateway is the technology that allows you to take payments online. Gateways are integrated into ecommerce stores to authorize card payments, …

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Authorize.Net Credit Card Processing Fees – Get It Elsewhere

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Authorize.net is a great gateway provider, but it’s not a credit card processor. It actually farms out its credit card processing to its parent company, CyberSource. It also charges higher fees for its gateway than some of its resellers. That means you can use Authorize, but get it (at lower prices!) through one of its …

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Online Payment Processing and Ecommerce Payments

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With consumers now regularly shopping on the internet, it’s more important than ever for businesses to be able to take credit cards online. Securely accepting payments on your website is convenient for customers, and could boost sales.

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