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Online domain company GoDaddy’s new Get Paid service combines payment acceptance for small businesses from up to three payment companies with invoicing and expense-management capabilities. That caters to demands from merchants wanting more than payment processing, says one industry analyst. Get Paid draws its payment data from PayPal, Stripe, …
Read More »Retailer Confidence in Detecting Data-Security Breaches Abounds, But Is It Warranted?
Retailers have a hearty sense of confidence when it comes to how quickly their organizations would detect a data breach, especially one that targets sensitive payment information, finds a survey from Tripwire Inc., a data-security company. In the survey of 154 retail organizations, 60% said their systems could detect a …
Read More »Mystery Surrounds Upcoming Auction of Silk Road Bitcoins Seized by Feds
One of the most unusual auctions ever is scheduled for Friday, but the event is largely shrouded in mystery. Beginning at 6:00 a.m. Eastern and continuing for 12 hours, the U.S. Marshals Service will take sealed online bids for 29,657 Bitcoins that the FBI seized in its bust last October …
Read More »POS Vendors Flint And Vend Link Up with Intuit for a QuickBooks Online Integration
Small businesses using Vend Ltd. point-of-sale systems and a mobile-payment acceptance app from Flint Mobile Inc. can now link payment data from these services to their QuickBooks Online accounts. Vend is a New Zealand-based company that markets a POS system that works on desktop computers, Apple computers, and the iPad. …
Read More »E-Commerce Gateway Services Provider Digital River Flows Into Bitcoin’s Expanding Sea
Payment-gateway services provider Digital River Inc. announced Monday that it is adding Bitcoin as a payment option for its small and mid-sized U.S. e-commerce merchants. The Minnetonka, Minn.-based firm thus apparently becomes the first U.S.-based gateway to support the leading virtual currency. n “Bitcoin continues to attract more mainstream attention,” …
Read More »Amazon Finesses Payments by Adding Recurring Billing to Its Log in And Pay Feature
Recurring billing is now available from Amazon Payments, putting the online payment service from Amazon.com Inc. on more equal footing with competitors that already offer the feature. n And when consumers update their payment cards, such as to replace an expired card, the update applies to payments made to merchants. …
Read More »Growth Perks up on the ACH Network, Though Check-Based Payments Continue to Decline
The national automated clearing house network enjoyed its second-strongest first-quarter performance in the past five years, with 3.8% transaction growth year-over-year, according to statistics released Monday by NACHA, the network’s administrative agency. n The new growth energy comes as the 40-year-old electronic payments network readies a proposal to speed up …
Read More »Square Launches a ‘Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You’ Merchant Cash-Advance Service
The merchant cash-advance and non-bank small-business loan sectors have boomed in recent years, with startups, established providers, and PayPal Inc. all seeking to tap merchant demand for capital that banks haven’t met. Now comes merchant processor Square Inc. with a new merchant cash-advance (MCA) service called Square Capital. As it …
Read More »Priority Payment Merges with Cynergy Data As ISO/Processor Consolidation Presses on
The merchant-acquiring business continued its consolidation trend on Wednesday with the news that Priority Payment Systems LLC has merged with Cynergy Data LLC. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, has created an independent sales organization processing some $20 billion annually for 125,000 merchant clients. Comvest Partners, a West Palm …
Read More »Dwolla Adds Next-Day Transfers, Harnessing the ACH System
Dwolla Inc. is in the next-day transfer business now. The alternative-payment network announced Thursday it is offering the service for withdrawals from Dwolla accounts to its users’ bank accounts. Relying on the automated clearing house system, the transfer service is an opportunity to use an existing network while Dwolla continues …
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