Digital Transactions Feb. 22, 2011 Discover Financial Services on Tuesday found itself at the center of two announcements signaling increasing interest in the payments industry in alternative payments and electronic billing. Ebillme, an online-payments service offered by Rye Brook, N.Y.-based ModaSolutions Corp., said online merchants that accept Discover cards will be able to accept eBillme [...]
Tag Archives: e-Commerce
Fri 02/25/2011 - 08:51
Sun 09/26/2010 - 08:52
Compete recently released the findings of its quarterly Online Shopper Intelligence Study, revealing that 83% of consumers are shopping online at least weekly. The Q2 report was compiled from a survey of 3,119 online purchasers between May and July 2010. Study results exposed a number of consistent trends: Consumers are seeking out retailers on Facebook [...]
Tue 05/18/2010 - 02:04
 Cross Posted from Payments101.com by Rik Coeckelbergs Trialpay surprised me this week with a couple of interesting surveys: one on the effect of Motherday on the revenue in social gaming and one on ad-funded payments. Let us start with the ad funded payments.  In fact, after reading the paper it looks more like a [...]
Thu 04/01/2010 - 07:31
(March 18, 2010 Digital Transactions) More online shoppers are repudiating transactions even after they’ve received their merchandise, much to the chagrin of online merchants, which are focusing on the problem as they seldom have in the past. That’s according to Robert W. Botelle, executive vice president for merchant services and chief customer officer at Litle [...]
Wed 01/27/2010 - 12:41
Digital Transactions – January 19, 2010 Merchant e-Solutions Inc., which on Tuesday announced it is actively marketing online PIN debit to both existing and prospective e-commerce merchants, credits the deep recession of the past year or so with helping to drive merchant interest in the service. “The recession has made [online PIN debit] more important,†[...]
Sun 01/24/2010 - 12:36
Digital Transactions – January 21, 2010 The growth of online commerce in recent years has given rise to a number of payments-related trade groups, not to mention the PCI Security Standards Council, the oversight body of the Payment Card Industry data-security standard. Now a new one has come onto the scene, one is dedicated to [...]
Wed 01/14/2009 - 08:02
Giving your customers options, especially when it comes to making payments, is essential. If there is one thing that most of us have in common in this world it is that we have too much to do and not enough time to do it in. More and more people are getting away from traditional paper checks and turning to electronic payment options that can be completed easily and quickly online or over the phone. Providing several different payment options for your customers will increase the number of payments you receive and there are other benefits to these convenient systems such as:
