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Master merchant: Definition, types, and examples

Payrix

A master merchant, often referred to as a payment facilitator or merchant aggregator, is a third-party agent that acts as the link between acquirers and online merchants. This model allows sub-merchants to focus on their core activities while benefiting from streamlined access to payment services.

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Cyber Weekend Benchmarking Data: 2024 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report

FastSpring

Once a single Black Friday shopping day, deals expanded to encompass the following Cyber Monday, with the entire weekend now referred to as Cyber Weekend. That includes automatic conversions to local languages and currencies as well as offering dozens of the most popular payment methods , which vary by region.

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Glossary: 117 software-led payments terms to know

Payrix

Interested in learning more about software-led payments or joining the current Embedded Payments conversations in your organization? This blog post is your ultimate guide to understanding the most used payments terms today. This blog post is your ultimate guide to understanding the most used payments terms today.

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Skip the Hiring Headache: How Usio Makes Payment Facilitation a Breeze

USIO

Hiring your own staff as a payment facilitator involves significant costs and risks. Source: PayScale IT Security Specialist Role: Safeguards your payment systems from cyber threats, ensuring data integrity and security. We’ll also discuss how opting for a third-party solution like Usio can mitigate these risks.

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Underwriting 101: What is Underwriting and Why is it Important?

Underwriting in the payments industry is the process of assessing and verifying potential customers – including adherence to banking, brand, and governmental rules – to protect consumers from entities that want to engage in fraud or other illegal activities by accepting credit card transactions.

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Payment processor: Definition, types, and examples

Payrix

What is a payment processor? A payment processor facilitates the flow of transactions typically made with credit cards, debit cards, and other digital payments. The processor is responsible for processing and settling the transactions initiated by the payment facilitators merchants, but they can also offer so much more.

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Payment facilitation and risk management: What do vertical software companies need to know?

Payrix

Before we dive into the risks associated with payments, let’s review why embedding payments is good for SaaS businesses and the three payment processing solutions available to software companies today. What are the benefits of adding payments to vertical software? What is a PayFac® developer?