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: ecommerce
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 [...]
Sat 07/18/2009 - 09:42
(July 14, 2009) as posted by Digital Transactions More than 2 million new households logged into online banking over the past year, bringing the online-banking share of the nation’s households with Internet access to 79%. That’s one of the key findings from the 2009 Consumer Billing and Payment Trends survey from bank processor and bill-pay [...]
Thu 07/16/2009 - 02:38
By Bala Janakiraman E-Commerce Times Shopping cart abandonment is an e-commerce evil, but it’s not a necessary one. Researchers have uncovered some of the top reasons customers walk away, and e-tailers that choose to ignore them do so at their peril. Taking a holistic approach to protecting shopping carts can go a long way toward [...]
Thu 07/02/2009 - 01:51
by Sharon Goldman as posted by DMNews With the new credit card bill potentially making plastic an option for fewer people — including those under age 21 and those without good credit — e-commerce retailers are offering more alternative payment methods, which are becoming more and more attractive when shopping online. There are a wide variety [...]
