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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

Stax

You’re making a purchase at a retail store, and the cash register is large, clunky, and painfully slow, even for 2004. Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Why Is Adding Mobile Payments Important to Businesses Today?

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No Fee Payment Processing: Everything You Need to Know

Stax

This figure used to be 24% in 2015 which makes it evidently clear that card usage is on the rise. This may be concerning for certain types of businesses as they need to spend more to process credit and debit card payments as compared to cash. It’s one of the many ways that businesses can reduce the cost of processing card payments.

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Tap to Pay: What It Is and How It Works

Stax

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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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. It is very possible that no other company has done as much to shape our decade as Jeff Bezos’s behemoth. .

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FastSpring Support: 2024 Q1 Updates From Customer Support

FastSpring

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, and digital products businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support. Changelog posts from 2015-2020 are available on the archived post located at the bottom of the changelog posts displayed.

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Full-Service Ecommerce Proves to Be Key for Successful Social Commerce

FastSpring

While one cannot deny the rise of social commerce and its pertinence to the overarching ecommerce industry, studies have shown that social-commerce strategies do not lead to as many purchases as you may think. . For example, does your full-service ecommerce solution include a payments portion that transcends global and social borders?

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How ShortPoint Experienced 10x Growth and Expanded their Global Footprint with Full-Service Ecommerce

FastSpring

ShortPoint is a leader in intranet design software. Since 2015, they have built over 20,000 beautiful and functional intranet sites with more than 50 global partners. Global payments became an area of focus for the team. The team evaluated point solutions in an effort to build out their own complete ecommerce set up.