Over 2,000 pages were folded into the bill and passed under America Competes Act in order to curb harmful counterfeit items sold through online marketplaces. The long folded Shop Safe bill includes everything from research funding to shark fin sales and focuses on America’s competitiveness with China. While the goal of the bill can be [...]
There’s no doubt that the post-COVID-19 era would be spectacular. We can expect that in 2022, roads and trains will begin to fill with life as people travel back and forth without the sense of gloom and depredation hanging over their heads. High street retailers and restaurants will also start catering to live audiences. By [...]
All over the U.S, businesses are reopening after the long months of lockdown. Still, businesses cannot operate at full capacity as activities resume at a slow pace to life as it used to be before the global pandemic. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over as new cases and deaths are still on the [...]
With the holiday approaching at a faster pace, it is sure that fraudsters are also planning on ways by which they are going to conduct holiday fraud this season. That implies that this is the right time for merchants to prepare for ways by which they can fight such fraudsters. The loss from online retail [...]
Despite the many payment options which are available to customers nowadays, credit card is still the leading payment method. In fact according to the consumer payment study which was conducted in 2016, this was the first time credit card lead as the most preferred way of making payment, thereby replacing debit as the number-one choice [...]
Because several U.S merchant see no immediate threat from counterfeit card fraud, they are still holding against EMV and business goes on. But they might all be forced to upgrade due to the obvious change in payment card acceptance. This year MasterCard has expanded to new 2-series card account numbers, Due to this fact some [...]
Have you ever noticed a PCI Compliance fee or worse, a Non-PCI0 Compliance fee when looking at your merchant processing statement? Over the years, we’ve heard about this topic from many merchants and business owners that wanted clarification of why they’re being charged this PCI Compliance fee or if there was something small businesses could [...]
Expanding Benefits with Merchant Rewards & Store-Issued Cards — June 8, 2015 — Apple® today announced Apple Pay™ wallet is making everyday payments even better by adding support for rewards programs and store-issued credit and debit cards with iOS 9. Apple Pay wallet will also give shoppers more ways to pay in the US, [...]
Featured in Best of Category Reviews and one of America’s leading Loyalty companies, SpotOn makes a bold move and integrates customer reviews to their loyalty platform. Not only will it automatically send review requests to their customer’s loyal patrons but it also helps businesses improve their ratings on dozens of review sites such as City [...]
Apple Pay, Apple’s mobile system hits all-time high for acceptance. Currently the tech giant is in over 700,000 U.S. retail locations and 50,000 Coca Cola vending machines. The timing couldn’t be better as NFC technology (Near Field Communication) has also been gaining ground the last couple of years as technology makes another turn for the [...]