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Real EstateBrookfield Delays Payments While Asking Tenants To Pay Up
Asset manager Brookfield, which owns stakes in numerous malls, is demanding retailers pay back rent even as the Toronto-based investment group has...
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EconomyWill ‘Zombie Companies’ Eat The US Economy?
You know the setup — the one that’s part of seemingly every horror movie ever made. Would-be victims use their wits to...
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SubscriptionsSubscription Commerce Rides A Growth Wave
In its fiscal 2020 Q1, streaming platform Netflix reported adding nearly 16 million new subscribers and blasting net income into orbit at...
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SubscriptionsWhy Pushing Pause Will Help Subscription Commerce Surge
Consumers are treating spending very differently today than they were even eight weeks ago. That fact is increasingly underlined in a variety of...
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Subscription CommerceA Look At Consumer Life In The Subscription Economy
The global outbreak of COVID-19 has dramatically and unexpectedly hit the reset button on the entire retail ecosystem, leaving virtually no corner untouched—...
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SubscriptionsRefining The Fight Against Subscription Churn
As one looks across the subscription landscape with an eye toward combating the consistent issue that churn presents, there are often small...
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B2B PaymentsInvoia Shifts Focus To SMBs’ Recurring Revenue Collection
Invoia, a mobile web company for small businesses to deal with revenues, is rebranding itself in a bid to meet customer demands...
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RetailFamily Fun, In A Box (On Susbcription)
Before Kenny Ball started a subscription box to bring families together for screen-free time, he was a public school teacher for 14...
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Subscription CommerceMerger, Sale Among Ingredients For Meal-Kit Maker Blue Apron
After more customer losses and financial dips, Blue Apron is exploring strategic options going forward that might include putting itself up for...
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Subscription CommerceThe Subscription Economy: What The 2020s Have In Store
It’s not too far-fetched to say that one day soon, perhaps, much of our lives as consumers will run on subscriptions. Growing...
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SubscriptionsRecurring Payments: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Whether it’s a monthly box of shaving stuff delivered to your door or a license for cloud-based collaboration software, subscriptions are a...
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RetailHow Cars, Streaming And Sign-Ups Make For Better Subscription Commerce
Subscription commerce is undergoing changes in 2020. For one change, that form of retail is expanding to include new and fresh areas,...
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Payment MethodsIn Subscription Commerce, Seconds Matter
Make sign-ups fast, trials free and features rich. These are some of the quick takes from the latest PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Conversion...
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Monday MeetupThe Best Of The Monday Conversation: Everything We Learned In 2019
Something remarkable happened about halfway through the 2010s or at least something that ought to have been. Except as it turned out,...
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Today In DataRecurring Payments, Boosting Customer Loyalty – And Merchants’ Top Lines
Subscription commerce, and the recurring payments tied to it, has advantages for consumers and merchants alike. There’s the lure of dependable top-line...
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Cross-border PaymentsHow Recurring Payments Support Customer Services
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) support platforms have more to worry about than solving customer service problems — they must manage the backlash when interrupted...
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Subscription CommerceSubscription Commerce’s Recurring Value Challenge
Subscription commerce is all the rage and shows every sign that it will keep growing in the 2020s. It can be tempting...
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SubscriptionsWordPress Teams With Stripe To Offer Recurring Payments
Popular publishing platform WordPress.com has teamed up with payments company Stripe to add a subscription or recurring payments option, enabling users to...
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Subscription CommerceHow The Vitamin Shoppe Introduced Subscriptions To Its Retail Business
While many retail chains are adding subscriptions to their in-store offerings, it comes with its share of challenges, including involuntary cancellations due...
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Today In DataMerchants’ Attraction To The Recurring Subscription Model
Retailers and other companies want visible, dependable top lines – and growth – amid lower costs. One way to get there is...
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Subscription CommerceHow Bank Debits Are Driving Subscription Commerce Growth
Recurring payments and commerce are taking the world by storm as businesses seek to expand their global operations, and consumers of all...
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Payment MethodsSubscription Commerce May Be Saturated, But New Entrants Emerge
With meal kits, streaming services and food delivery apps all vying for consumer attention, it’s easy to declare the subscription commerce market...
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Payments InnovationGoCardless Teams With Recurly For Recurring Global Payments
Recurring payments company GoCardless and subscription commerce company Recurly have teamed up to give businesses access to the “first global network designed...
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RetailAre Consumers Maxed Out On Subscription Commerce?
There is only so much time in a day to watch programming and only so much monthly budget to devote to food...
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B2B PaymentsXero, GoCardless Enable Recurring Payment Collection For US SMBs
Small business cloud accounting firm Xero is strengthening its partnership with U.K.-based recurring payments solution provider GoCardless to expand their offerings to...
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RetailHow Retailers Drive Innovation With Subscriptions (And Payments)
Brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as online merchants, are offering consumers all sorts of products and services through the subscription business model, from...
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Subscription CommerceREPORT: How Subscription Merchants Can Avoid The SCA Conversion Cliff
Subscriptions are not just for magazines anymore. The business model has grown well beyond streaming services like Netflix to encompass an ever-expanding...
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Today In DataFor Merchants, Recurring Benefits From Recurring (Subscription) Payments
The subscription model has its lures – especially for retailers and other consumer-facing customers. Chief among them: steady top lines that translate...
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AppleRecord Labels Not Sold On Apple’s Super-Bundle Subscription Idea
Apple has kicked off early talks with record labels about bundling its upcoming streaming TV service with Apple Music, its streaming music...
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Travel PaymentsDeep Dive: Frequent Versus Infrequent Travelers
Vacation payment plans could open doors for travelers, especially those concerned about how much their trips will ultimately cost. Such plans’ availability...
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B2B PaymentsInvoiced Adds Recurring Billing Support To AR Platform
Accounts receivable automation firm Invoiced is adding new features to its solution, including support for recurring payments and enhanced cash flow forecasting...
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Travel PaymentsReport: How Payment Plans Remove The Risk From Booking Adventure Travel
When it comes to vacations, some consumers in the United States want to do more than catch a few rays on a...
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B2B PaymentsSetting The Stage For ACH B2B Subscription Payments
Recurring payments can present recurring challenges for firms that want to offer customers a range of payment options. Pranav Sood, vice president of...
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B2B PaymentsGoCardless Debuts In US With Recurring ACH B2B Payments Sevice
GoCardless, a U.K.-based company providing businesses with recurring payment acceptance solutions, is launching in the U.S. with an eye on the B2B...
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Cross Border CommerceHow BlueJeans Solved Its Recurring Payments Woes
Transaction fees and interchange rates, among other factors, can turn a simple transaction into a complex process for merchants. But Mike Schramm,...
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Digital PaymentsSCA Delay: A Payments Opportunity In Disguise?
Opportunities come in various forms and disguises, and that could be the case for payments and commerce operators when it comes to...
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Payment MethodsPYMNTS’ Labor Day Reading List (Without The Labor)
Reading lists should cut to the chase, pointing to what’s most urgent or cutting edge. PYMNTS offers dozens of reports, trackers and...
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Subscription CommerceKeeping SCA From Becoming The Subscription Commerce Kill Switch
Friction is a commerce-killer in all types of businesses, but the risk is especially elevated when it comes to subscriptions and recurring...
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InternationalDocuSign And GoCardless Team To Reduce Global B2B Subscription Friction
Reducing churn and the total cost of payments acceptance is a challenge for recurring payments of all stripes, particularly so when payments...
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B2B PaymentsBill.com Debuts AI Business Payments Platform
Corporate payments technology firm Bill.com is rolling out a new platform designed to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) for automated workflows. In an...
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RetailHow eCommerce Merchants Create Seamless Subscriptions With Customization
In the age of subscriptions for movies and even car rentals, consumer goods and eCommerce companies are tapping into recurring purchase models....
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InvestmentsGoCardless Raises $75M In Funding For Organic Growth
GoCardless, the global player in recurring payments, announced Monday (February 18) it has landed $75 million in venture funding. In a press...
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RetailHow Top Merchants Are Tackling Subscription Conversions
To make life easier for customers, companies in many different industries, from consumer packaged goods to luxury automobiles, are adopting the subscription...
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Today In DataToday In Data: The Subscription Features Consumers Want
Target plans to bring contactless payments to all stores in the United States over the next several weeks. More retailers are tapping...
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RetailJacqueline’s Teas On Crafting Cafe-Inspired Subscriptions
Tea subscription services are taking inspiration from tea houses, with entrepreneurs bringing family businesses online. Barbara Soley helped bring Jacqueline’s Teas to...
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Retail2018: The Year Of The Subscription
It has been a year of subscription innovation, with businesses in many verticals – from food to transportation – providing consumers with...
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Consumer FinanceRecurring Card Payments To Hit $473B By 2021
A new report has predicted that recurring transactions processed on debit and credit cards in the United States will reach $473 billion...
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Subscription CommerceConsumers Battle Subscription Friction As Fraud Scrutiny Tightens
Subscription commerce stands as one of the hotter parts of retail, with companies such as Lyft launching subscription plans and other firms...
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B2B PaymentsWells Fargo App Update Eyes Recurring SMB Payments Control
Wells Fargo announced Monday (Oct. 1) the release of Control Tower, an addition to its mobile app that allows small business and...
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HealthcareGetting A Handle On A Healthcare Payments Fix
We have come a long way from the days when patients in the U.S. did not have to foot all that much...
