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Best Credit Card Processing Companies

The Daily Egg

Every business that accepts credit cards needs to have a processing company to facilitate these transactions. Whether you’re selling online, in-person, over the phone, or on-the-go, businesses across all industries must use a payment processing service. This can make it challenging to find the […].

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Best Payment Processors for Startups

Baremetrics

The story of payment processors begins in 1998 when Confinity (later X.com, but you probably know it as PayPal) was released. This early payment processor did very little and wasn’t all that important to global commerce. That history might be interesting to some, but the real questions are: What are payment processors?

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Infinicept Launches Infiniport, Enabling “Bring Your Own Processor” for Embedded Payments

Infinicept

With Infiniport, payment facilitators, payments companies. With Infiniport, payment facilitators, payments companies.

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Top 7 Payment Processing Services for 2022

Frontegg

With more and more businesses offering their services online, payment processing is now taking centerstage. Creating a secure and smooth payment pipeline is becoming increasingly important, with users expecting more in-app freedom with the ability to purchase or upgrade their accounts with just a few clicks.

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How Becoming a Payment Facilitator Improves Your Merchant’s Experience

How does becoming a payment facilitator help them achieve this? Many business-to-business software companies were founded for a single, fundamental purpose: to improve the business solutions available to a certain industry or vertical.

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Thanks to BrainStorm, G2, G-P, Infinicept, and Laika for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

Over the years, BrainStorm has evolved from a training services company to a world-class SaaS platform. Infinicept is a provider of embedded payment solutions. Laika is an enterprise-ready compliance platform that lets growing companies compete on the same level as any large organization. G-P, Global Made Possible.

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What Are Payment Facilitators Responsible For?

Infinicept

Payment facilitators – also known as Payfacs – operate in cooperation with acquiring banks, card networks, and the regulators who oversee the payments system.

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How Becoming a Payment Facilitator Improves Your Merchant’s Experience

How does becoming a payment facilitator help them achieve this? Many business-to-business software companies were founded for a single, fundamental purpose: to improve the business solutions available to a certain industry or vertical.

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5 Myths - and the Truth - About Becoming a Payment Facilitator

Being a payment facilitator is not for everybody. But the single biggest factor that gets in the way of becoming a payment facilitator is the obfuscation (lies, to tell the truth) circulating within the industry about what it takes to be a PF. The timing might be wrong.

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Payments 101 Webinar: Demystifying Payments

Speaker: Tracie Poland and Ted Vandeburg

For lots of people, accepting payments looks complicated. So much jargony talk about things like processors and interchange, right? Then you’re in a better position to look at your options and see how you can really take advantage of what payments have to offer your company. We don’t think this should be hard.

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Compliance 101: What You Need to Know as a Payfac

Payment facilitators are obligated to follow rules and regulations from the multiple entities that govern the payments ecosystem. Compliance is achieved by implementing the appropriate processes needed to adhere to these rules and remaining aware of changing conditions.

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Your Guide to Embedded Payments

Right now, the embedded payments conversation can be downright confusing. Part of the reason for this owes to the sheer volume of terms used to describe some of the approaches within the space, like payfac, payment facilitator, merchant of record (MOR), embedded payments, software-led payments––and that's just to name a few.

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Get More Help With Merchant Onboarding and Get Payments Going Your Way

As software companies become a larger part of the payments world, you will have to determine how much of a role you want to play and how far up the payments revenue food chain you want to go.

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Embedded vs. Integrated Payments: The Ultimate Guide

In payments, both terms have to do with getting payment capabilities closer to the process they’re associated with and improving the customer experience. Integrated payments connect payment processes to software platforms, making things simpler for the end user. And they are, in some ways.

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Take Payments Without Losing The Profits

If you are a vertically focused software company and hate giving up a big piece of your revenue pie to third parties, explore becoming a payment facilitator. Transform your business by increasing your revenue share, taking control of your merchant’s experience, and owning your risk management decisions.