by Payment Solution Pros | Feb 6, 2017 | Business, Card Processing, Chip Card, EMV, news, Secure Payment, Visa
The total number of Visa credit and debit cards bearing an EMV chip numbered 408.1 million at the end of December, Visa announced Thursday. That’s a 2.1% increase from the 399.9 million tally at the end of November. Of the total, 219.4 million are debit cards and...
by Payment Solution Pros | Feb 1, 2017 | Business, Credit Card, Ecommerce, Mobile Commerce, Online Storefront, smartphone
Can you believe it’s just ten years since the first iPhone was launched? I was taken aback when I read about that in the press recently. It’s incredible how much the smart devices have changed the way we live today. They’ve also played a big role in another...
by Payment Solution Pros | Jan 31, 2017 | Business, Card Processing, Credit Card, Ecommerce, Mobile Commerce, online shopping cart, Online Storefront, Retail, Retail Sales, Storefront
The whole idea of ecommerce has always been to take the millennia-old tradition of shopping in person and move it to the web where purchases will be simpler, quicker and cheaper. It would also open an entirely new arena for newcomers which would be given a chance to...
by Payment Solution Pros | Jan 12, 2017 | Business, Credit Card, Digital Wallets, M Commerce, Mobile App, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Ordering, Mobile Payments, Mobile Trends, Mobile Wallets, Small Business, smartphone
In 2009, a study conducted by Deloitte predicted that by the end of 2016, 70% of mobile payment users would be less than 40 years old and the annual spend of this so-called Generation Y will be around $2.45trn just in the US. But first of all, what is an m-payment?...
by Payment Solution Pros | Jan 9, 2017 | Business, Ecommerce, M Commerce, Mobile Commerce, Shipping, Small Business
For ecommerce, 2016 has set new record-high expectations for consumers, leaving many merchants playing catch up. With large and small businesses competing for consumer attention by offering free shipping, in-store pickups, and same-day delivery, you have to wonder,...
by Payment Solution Pros | Jan 4, 2017 | Business, Credit Card, Ecommerce, Mobile Commerce, Small Business
Here’s how to ensure your product is priced correctly. In the stock market, price reflects all the available information about any equity, says the efficient-markets theory. For other products, it’s getting ever more complicated. “List price”...