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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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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MARCH 18, 2025

Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store. This method can help you determine the best ways to reach SaaS growth within your business. More on that later.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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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AUGUST 20, 2024

In today’s digital age, more and more consumers are shopping online. With that, it’s no longer possible for merchants to check ID or signature to ensure that the person making a purchase is who they say they are. In 2015, Version 2 of 3D Secure was released as an improvement on the above system.

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MARCH 14, 2024

EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) chip card use has continued to expand in use since its tumultuous rollout in 2015. The chip does not affect the price of processing payments. You will still be subject to the costs of debit vs. credit payments, etc. So what is the difference between these two EMV chip card payment formats ?

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. Purchase volumes through credit cards jumped 51% between 2015 and 2021. Simply put, a surcharge amount is an extra fee that some merchants choose to levy on customers to cover the costs of processing credit card payments. The rate varies between 1.3

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