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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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How to build a successful Embedded Payments strategy Part 4 | Episode 36

Payrix

Andy Meadows, the Head of Partner Success at Payrix joins host Ian Hillis to continue their conversation about building a successful Embedded Payments strategy. As the last episode of a four-part series on the topic, Andy and Ian tackle how software companies can minimize attrition and why it’s important to the payments conversation.

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Credit Card Processing for Small Business: 9 Tips for Accepting Payments Securely and Cost-Effectively

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To ensure that you’re able to take payments in a cost-effective way, be sure to carefully compare their fee structures, contract terms, and available features. In today’s world, knowing how credit card transactions work is super important for any business owner, given that card transactions make up the bulk of all payment transactions.

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Visa Interchange Rates 2024: What You Need to Know

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If your company accepts credit card payments ( which it should ), chances are, you’re going to be affected by Visa’s interchange rates. Visa is one of the biggest payment networks in the world, with ~4.2B These rates are set and collected by the network for processing transactions and maintaining the payment infrastructure.

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Unleashing the Power of Crypto: 7 Tactics to Educate and Excite Your Crypto Customers

BitPay

There’s no one right way to go about promoting the fact that your business accepts crypto payments. The most effective method is a combination of tactics, including leveraging your existing marketing channels in new ways. Read on for some tactics and strategies you can use to educate and excite your crypto customers.

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EMV Chip Cards: What You Need to Know About PIN or Signature Cards and How They Work

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Yet, while time has provided customers and businesses with more education on the security benefits of EMV card chips, many businesses and consumers are still confused about key components. The chip does not affect the price of processing payments. You will still be subject to the costs of debit vs. credit payments, etc.

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Tap to Pay: What It Is and How It Works

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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.