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2.7KWhy AI Could Be Fashion Rental Platforms’ Next Big Thing
Technology may be changing, but the level of service consumers want from businesses is not. With a growing number of consumers around...
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2.0KYapstone Powers Expanded RentPay Platform For Rentals.com
Payments platform operator Yapstone has expanded its work with Rentals.com, enabling it to allow any renter to pay any landlord digitally. In a...
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3.1KHow Webconnex Works To Make Events Simple
There can’t be a barnburner if it can’t get off the ground to begin with. And no matter what the event is,...
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6.4KRaising The Roof With Platform Payments
As a growing group of consumers around the globe adopt digital payment platforms and tools, some well-known players, including Google and Amazon,...
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3.7KHow Choice Can Set Platform Providers Apart From Competition
One quarter of customers will abandon purchases if a merchant doesn’t accept their preferred payment method. However, managing payments made in 180...
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9.1KTRENDING: BigCommerce On How Platforms Solve Big eCommerce Payment Complexities
When consumers make a purchase online or through a mobile app, they expect the process to be simple and secure. However, they...
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2.7KHow Platform Payments Help The Games Go On
When it comes to organizing rec athletics, email chains are about as high-tech as it gets. In the latest Payments Powering Platforms...
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8.4KTRENDING: Recreational Athletics’ Payments-Powered Assist
What’s the key to a great customer experience? For a growing group of online and mobile platforms, the answer lies in the...
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5.4KHow HomeAway Uses Real-Time Data To Stay ‘Locally Relevant’
Consumers in China prefer mobile payments; Germans would rather use debit cards — and that’s just the beginning. HomeAway’s GM of Commerce...
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1.8KNavigating Past Platform Payment Challenges
Most consumers enjoy the rest and relaxation that comes with a good vacation. However, planning and paying for that trip can often...
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7.2KNEW REPORT: HomeAway’s Payments Secret Sauce
Travel payments have long posed a challenge to airlines and hotels in the space. Payments are often expensive to process and come...
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4.7KNPP CEO On Australia’s Real-Time Payments Platform
The half-year mark. It’s a good place to take stock and reflect on a manner of things: Romance. Job performance. New payments platforms. It’s...
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3.4KHow Platform Payments Are Reimagining Rentals
While more than half of consumers pay bills online, an astounding 80 percent still rely on paper checks to pay rent. But...
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6.4KTRENDING: Giving Rent Payments A Platform-Powered Overhaul
From giving sports and music fans a new way to buy tickets to the big game or sold out concert, to helping...
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4.5KHow Payment Platforms Simplify Travel Payments’ Complexity
No more plastic. And no more relying solely on virtual cards. Companies need transparency when it comes to booking and paying for...
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5.5KGiving Charities And Nonprofits Control Over Fundraising
For nonprofits, accepting donations on the go often means using “knuckle-buster credit card imprinters” or old-fashioned checks. These are solutions that Roger...
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4.0KNEW REPORT: Speeding And Securing Online Nonprofit Fundraising
In the push to make payments faster, platform and solutions providers are ratcheting up their payments processing infrastructure with new technologies and...
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2.5KTurning To The Crowd — And Gift Cards — To Fund Honeymoons
Millennials could care less for crystal stemware or fine china as wedding gifts. They want experiences — and that’s a trend turning the $19 billion bridal...
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4.1KTRENDING: Honeyfund CEO: Payments Powering Honeymoons
Whether it’s planning for a first date to the movies or a honeymoon vacation, most consumers today do so online. Industries of...
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1.8KOffering Integrated Payments To Power Small-Scale Event Planners
The organization of local cooking classes, training courses, workshops and charity fundraisers hits a very big brick wall when it comes to...
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7.2KTRENDING: Driving Small-Scale Event Sales With Embedded Payments
From fundraisers that enliven a community organization’s finances, to workshops that introduce potential customers to what an SMB has to offer, events...
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3.7KGoDaddy Turns To Integrated Payments To Power SMBs
SMBs need a faster way to get up and running by building rich, meaningful websites — which these days must also include...
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4.6KGoDaddy: Integrated Payments Are Key Differentiator
As more and more commerce moves from in-person to online, integration of payments into online platforms is unlocking new life-changing possibilities. Payments...
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5.6KBottling Fine Wine, With Notes Of Data
The wine industry is huge - valued at $220 billion in the United States alone. But for years, a lack of efficient...
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4.3KBlending Data And Payments To Boost Wine Trading
Trust is crucial in any relationship – and that’s particularly true for consumers and businesses that are sending and receiving payments...
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3.3KIntegrating Payments To Help SMBs Find Success
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have a problem. While SMB owners may be expert bakers, carpenters or designers, managing the back office...
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7.4KFreshBooks: Why SMBs Need More Than Integrated Payments
Whether a consumer or a business, everyone wants to be able to pay easily and efficiently. Sometimes, though, making and receiving payments...
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5.0KTRENDING: Embedded Payments Power New Rideshare Use Cases
Online shopping carts may soon be getting over their abandonment issues — not with therapy, but with new features that encourage deeper...
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3.5KGiving A Platform-Powered Assist To Ambitious Merchants
For retailers, increasing conversions in the Amazon age doesn’t just mean making it easy to check out. It means adapting prices in...
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5.7KTRENDING: Retail And The Power Of Real-Time Pricing
Ambitious retailers don’t want to stay locked in one lane, but rather to spread to new audiences, new product types and more —...
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4.4KHops Exchange Platform That Keeps The Suds Flowing
When it comes to making beer, it’s all about the hops. Now, with the help of payment-powered platforms, it’s easier for independent...
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4.8KTRENDING: Brewers Turn To Platform Commerce
Whether it’s helping brewers source the key ingredients for their latest recipes or making it easier to bring modern payment methods to...
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3.0KAdapting To The ‘Nitty-Gritty’ Of Subscriptions
Consumers clearly like subscription services – demand has skyrocketed by 3,000 percent since 2013, according to PYMNTS research. But with rising demand...
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5.2KNEW REPORT: Keeping Up With The ‘Nitty-Gritty’ Of Subscription Payments
With technologies like bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies leading the way, the platform-payments space is currently one of the fastest-changing in the world....
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7.0KWhite Label, Red Envelope Virtual Gifting In The New Media Space
When was the last time you used, or heard anyone talk about, the livestreaming mobile app Periscope? In hindsight, that big trend...
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9.3KExpedia Travels The Wide World Of Payments
Travel now, pay later? In this month’s PYMNTS Payments Powering Platforms Tracker, powered by WePay, Wilson Wang, director of checkout and payment...
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6.7KNEW REPORT: Expedia Explores The Payments World
From international consumers embracing the mobile wallet to world travelers planning their next trips online, platform commerce is going global. The September...
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10.7KWhy The Mobile Shopping Experience Needs Retail
While specialty stores have traditionally had personalized service locked up, mobile platforms are finding ways to disrupt retail in its wheelhouse, while...
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5.9KNEW REPORT: Mobile Platforms Take Personalized Aim At Amazon’s eThrone
Platform providers around the world are looking to give customers and retailers new possibilities in shopping and commerce. And, as mobile devices...
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5.0KDemocratizing The Gig Economy, One Business At A Time
Two years ago, creative services platform Fiverr launched, aimed at helping startups complete projects for as little as five bucks. Since then the marketplace...
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6.7KNEW REPORT: Fiverr Finds Future Outside The Gig Bargain Bin
Searching for a different kind of lodging or the perfectly priced graphic designer to help give a startup the right look? These...
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5.0KWhy Payments Are The Core Of Airbnb’s Meteoric Rise
In less than a decade, Airbnb has gone from startup to hospitality powerhouse, bringing in billions in travel rentals – and that...
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7.0KNEW REPORT: How Airbnb Does Payments
It can be a long road from startup to unicorn, with more than a few speed bumps on the way. But when...
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5.6KCan An ‘Agnostic’ Platform Help eCommerce Merchants Make It?
Can an “agnostic” approach to platform payments help find eCommerce fortune? May’s Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™, powered by WePay, features an interview...
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4.6KNEW REPORT: How Open Platforms Open New Sales Doors For Merchants
With so many options at their disposal, customers increasingly expect eCommerce platforms to provide great user experiences. For the platforms, this means...
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7.5KPayment Acceptance, Key Hurdle To SMB Success
What can help SMBs looking to optimize their omnichannel offerings? According to Ecwid’s VP of Direct Business Sridhar Nagarajan, payments is smack...
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5.0KNEW REPORT: On A Wing And A (Payment) Platform?
Most any startup with sights set on success needs the capability to collect payments without hassles. The April Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™...
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5.5KFinding The Ticket To Online Platform Success
These days, even the smallest event venues have plenty of online options for ticket sales – but that wasn’t always the case....
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5.3KNEW REPORT: What’s The Ticket To Platform Payments Success?
As platforms for everything from ticketing to fundraising become increasingly common, companies are striving to stand out in an increasingly crowded space....
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8.4KTaking Fundraising Social, Successfully
With crowdfunding campaigns teeming across social media, how can organizations help their campaigns cut through the noise? For the latest Payments Powering...