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payments powering platforms tracker
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3.7KPlatform PaymentsHow 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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9.2KPlatform PaymentsTRENDING: 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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8.5KPlatform PaymentsTRENDING: 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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5.6KPlatform PaymentsHow 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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7.3KPlatform PaymentsNEW 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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3.5KPlatform PaymentsHow 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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6.5KPlatform PaymentsTRENDING: 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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5.6KPlatform PaymentsGiving 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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4.1KPlatform PaymentsNEW 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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3.7KPlatform PaymentsGoDaddy 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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4.7KPlatform PaymentsGoDaddy: 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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5.7KPlatform PaymentsBottling 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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4.4KPlatform PaymentsBlending 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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6.2KRidesharingA Rideshare Save For Busy Parents’ Woes
Shuttling kids from school to soccer practice used to mean managing car pools, traffic — and lots of friction. But software platforms...
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5.8KPlatform PaymentsTRENDING: 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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4.5KPlatform PaymentsHops 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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4.8KPlatform PaymentsTRENDING: 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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3.0KPlatform PaymentsAdapting 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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5.3KPlatform PaymentsNEW 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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6.8KPlatform PaymentsNEW 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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5.0KPlatform PaymentsDemocratizing 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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6.7KPlatform PaymentsNEW 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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5.1KPlatform PaymentsWhy 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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7.0KPlatform PaymentsNEW 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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5.7KPlatform PaymentsCan 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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4.7KPlatform PaymentsNEW 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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7.5KPlatform PaymentsPayment 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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5.0KPlatform PaymentsNEW 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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5.5KPlatform PaymentsFinding 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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4.4KRisk ManagementTaking Risk Management To The Market(places)
Crowdfunding and other popular platforms bring a new level of risk to micro-payments. WePay’s John Canfield, Vice President of Risk Management, tells...
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8.5KPlatform PaymentsTaking 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...
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4.1KPlatform PaymentsNEW REPORT: Crowded Crowdfunding And The Rise Of Social Fundraising Fatigue
With the payments-powered platform space constantly evolving as new technology and customer demands impact the market, providers are finding strength in numbers...
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5.8KPlatform PaymentsAlways Be … Building A Better Platform
From social media-friendly services like Kickstarter to professional resources like mHelpDesk, payments-powered platforms are changing the way companies do business. In the...
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6.6KPlatform PaymentsPayments Powering Platforms Tracker: How Payments Fuel Platforms
In the past few years, payments-powered platforms have become a critical part of the American economy. Crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and GoFundMe...
