Platform Payments

Platform Payments
NEW REPORT: How Airbnb Does Payments
June 16, 2017

It can be a long road from startup to unicorn, with more than a few speed bumps on the way. But when the road to business empire is paved with payments, it may just be a smoother ride. The June PYMNTS Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™,...

Platform Payments
Can An ‘Agnostic’ Platform Help eCommerce Merchants Make It?
May 17, 2017

Can an “agnostic” approach to platform payments help find eCommerce fortune? May’s Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™, powered by WePay, features an interview with Leo Castro, VP of online sales platform BigCommerce. He told PYMNTS that keeping the offering open to new features and partnerships has...

Platform Payments
NEW REPORT: How Open Platforms Open New Sales Doors For Merchants
May 16, 2017

With so many options at their disposal, customers increasingly expect eCommerce platforms to provide great user experiences. For the platforms, this means commitment to constant evolution.  The May PYMNTS Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™, powered by WePay, features news and headlines on companies looking to bring...

Platform Payments
Payment Acceptance, Key Hurdle To SMB Success
April 12, 2017

What can help SMBs looking to optimize their omnichannel offerings? According to Ecwid’s VP of Direct Business Sridhar Nagarajan, payments is smack in the center of the puzzle, right alongside partnering with the right SMB-focused partners. In the April Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™, Nagarajan discusses...

Platform Payments
NEW REPORT: On A Wing And A (Payment) Platform?
April 11, 2017

Most any startup with sights set on success needs the capability to collect payments without hassles. The April Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™ takes a look at how companies are working with platforms to collect payments from consumers around the world.  Partnering Platforms  But it isn’t...

Platform Payments
Finding The Ticket To Online Platform Success
March 20, 2017

These days, even the smallest event venues have plenty of online options for ticket sales – but that wasn’t always the case. For the March Payments Powering Platform Tracker™, PYMNTS spoke with Tamara Mendelsohn and Gilad Horev, Eventbrite’s VP of product and head of payments,...

Platform Payments
NEW REPORT: What’s The Ticket To Platform Payments Success?
March 17, 2017

As platforms for everything from ticketing to fundraising become increasingly common, companies are striving to stand out in an increasingly crowded space. And eager find an edge, some platform providers are finding it better to partner up than go it alone.   In efforts to offer...

Platform Payments
Taking Fundraising Social, Successfully
February 27, 2017

With crowdfunding campaigns teeming across social media, how can organizations help their campaigns cut through the noise? For the latest Payments Powering Platform Tracker™, PYMNTS caught up with Daryl Hatton, founder and CEO of the crowdfunding platform FundRazr, to discuss the state of social media...

Platform Payments
NEW REPORT: Crowded Crowdfunding And The Rise Of Social Fundraising Fatigue
February 24, 2017

With the payments-powered platform space constantly evolving as new technology and customer demands impact the market, providers are finding strength in numbers and forging new partnerships and relationships in order to offer the most complete solution possible. Recently, BluePay and Datacap debuted a new partnership...