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MARCH 26, 2024

Online payment systems are the standard. Online terminals (sometimes referred to as virtual terminals) power various types of transactions, including eCommerce and payments made over the phone. This article covers the what, why, and how of online terminals; all a business owner needs to know to dive in and thrive.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Since the first plastic credit card was issued by American Express in 1959 , payment tech progress has been growing exponentially. Magnetic stripe payments enjoyed a 30-year reign between the ’70s and ’90s. Contactless payments became a must-have during COVID. NFC technology is in the midst of an evolution.

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JANUARY 28, 2024

This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries. The most potent benefit of the subscription-based business model is that companies are guaranteed a fixed revenue stream—if they can retain their customers or subscribers.

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MARCH 6, 2024

For businesses offering subscriptions, memberships, retainers, and other recurring services, recurring billing is a powerful solution to streamline processes and ultimately enhance revenue generation. Physical and eCommerce product subscription businesses are expected to make up 45% of the market’s value.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. For example, the breakdown of old hardware, human errors, or malware can cause a hindrance to payments.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s the amount of non-cash payments made in the U.S. Even if you’re not in the financial industry, you’ll need a payment processor or payment service provider (PSP) to start generating revenue, which means you’ll need to either have a proper risk management framework in place—or work with a PSP that has one.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Business owners are increasingly showing an overwhelming preference for SaaS platforms with embedded payment capabilities as part of their offerings. Not to mention the benefit of extra revenues from payment processing fees collected on each transaction. What are Integrated Payments?

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

For any merchant selling products or services online, it’s always a good idea to allow customers to make payments on their platform itself—instead of redirecting them to a third-party website or gateway. In this article, we’ll discuss everything you need to know about ensuring AML compliance as a payment facilitator (or PayFac).

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MARCH 21, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore the many benefits of SaaS and how to implement SaaS payments. Because of their many benefits, businesses have realized the need for implementing SaaS payments as well. However, small businesses must keep in mind a few things before jumping into it. tokenization, encryption).

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments are a type of electronic bank-to-bank payment system in the US. Unlike payments facilitated by card networks like Visa or Mastercard, ACH payments are managed by a body called the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA). Let’s get started.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. However, after a 2013 lawsuit, card companies started allowing businesses to charge customers a fee for using credit cards.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. However, after a 2013 lawsuit, card companies started allowing businesses to charge customers a fee for using credit cards.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The writing on the wall is clear—businesses need to start accepting digital payments and software providers need to start offering payment services one way or another. In this article, we’ll break down two popular terms used in the payment processing industry—ISV and PayFac —and see what they exactly mean.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Whether you run a small online store or a major brand, accepting electronic payments is a must for all businesses. According to Onbe, 73% of consumers prefer using digital payments like cards and payment apps. But to seamlessly receive these payments as a merchant, you’ll need merchant processing services.

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MAY 21, 2024

As software and management systems have progressed in the modern age, time-consuming tasks like recurring payments and client management are streamlined through this process. In this article, we will explain the benefits of implementing payment management systems into your software. This is where Stax Connect comes in.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Although credit cards have been around since the 1950s, in recent years, they’ve started to dethrone cash from its position as king of payment methods. With a whopping 84% of American adults owning at least one credit card (the average is 3 credit card accounts per person), card payments reached $9.43 trillion in 2021.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at what data tokenization means, how it works, and the role it plays in payment processing. Payment tokenization is a subset of data tokenization where tokens replace confidential payment data such as customer credit card information. Let’s get started.

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APRIL 4, 2024

According to Forbes , 32% of consumers use it as their primary payment method. But as great as they are for consumers, merchants know that accepting credit card payments comes with added costs in the form of processing fees. The processing fee can be a fixed value or a percentage and varies among card brands.

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