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Modern businesses do more than simply make one-off sales of products - they take advantage of the opportunities our digital reality offers. Perhaps the inspiration f...

The subscription economy is having its moment in the sun, with many everyday services moving to a subscription model: meal kits, streaming services, book clubs, and ...

The payment landscape continues to expand each year, offering a vast array of payment methods for end users and processing options for merchants. Payment gateways, p...

Merchants wishing to offer secure payment solutions for customers may find themselves at an impasse: their payment flows may require additional steps to become compl...

Failed payments are a key performance indicator for merchants that offer subscription, or installment, payment products or services. That’s because, when a consumer’...

Expanded Apple Pay JS Support In March, we added support for merchant tokens and Buy Now, Pay Later to Apple Pay JS. This enables merchants to decrypt the Apple Pay ...

The subscription model - paying for the use of a product or service on a regular basis, rather than purchasing an item outright - has been around for hundreds of yea...

When this video was recorded, Shopify Payment App documentation was in its early stages and only depicted Ruby code samples.

We came back from a long but eventful week at Merchant Risk Council's annual conference in Las Vegas. This year, it ran from March 25 until March 28 and was jam-pack...

Payments are an inescapable element of any commercial enterprise, yet the whole payment ecosystem can seem like a closed book to many businesspeople. Beyond the exis...

What are Fintech Companies? Fintech is a broad term (shortened from financial technology) that encompasses technologies aiming to improve, simplify, or modernize fin...

When merchants accept credit card payments, they also must consider what happens after the transaction is authorized. Can they store the card data? Should they?

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, it is vital to remove every little bit of friction that can cause a consumer not to complete a purchase. Friction can inc...

Going live with a PCI-compliant product or service can become cumbersome for merchants. On top of understanding and adhering to the Payment Card Industry Data Securi...

For centuries, payments have been “bundled”. Large multinational institutions have led the way in banking, money, payments, investments, and more, becoming large fin...

In our thoroughly networked world, many are constantly glued to their mobile devices, devouring the musings, postings, and comments that are the lifeblood of social ...

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is the global standard for ensuring the secure handling of credit card data. It’s designed to protect card...

In February, the engineering team spent our time working on big picture items as well as granular bug fixes to improve platform performance. Read on for details of h...

In today’s digital, virtual world, there are vanishingly few businesses remaining who can operate on a cash basis - everyone has to accept digital payments, like cre...

In a digital and connected world, data is the most valuable virtual commodity. Access to, and control of, data is a fiercely competitive and much-debated area of mod...

Payment processing in higher risk industries often comes with the fear that the processor could halt payouts at any point - potentially without warning. For two high...

Any time a credit card transaction occurs, the payment carries detailed data along with it to better classify and analyze the purchase. The amount and type of data i...

Merchants use batch payment processing to submit multiple transactions at once, rather than in real-time as the payment details come in, generally to reduce fees and...

When planning to accept payments, integrating and going live quickly can ensure a smooth and swift road to generating revenue. Hosted payment pages can offer merchan...

Today’s economy is increasingly driven by complex purchases: beyond the exchange of cash for an item in a retail store, we have become accustomed to making digital o...

E-commerce, by its very nature, is international, which opens the door for a global customer base. Opting to accept global payments can ensure that merchants can off...

In the world of payments, selecting partners to help transact business is one of the most complex, but critical, processes any business can complete. Choosing the ri...

Total processing volume (also known as total payment volume, or TPV) is the sum of all payments passed through a specific payment processor over a given period of ti...

Payments for cannabis and hemp companies, whether dispensaries, growers, or other merchants, can be quite complex.

10x+ Performance Enhancement on Token Searching January came with a huge performance enhancement on our Token Search and Token List endpoints, these are now returnin...

As businesses grow, the complexities of keeping up with the money that flows in and out of their accounts start to pile up. The solution is to optimize payment opera...

Online dating and related services are booming globally, with demand increasing at a rapid pace. The market for online dating and apps was valued at $7.94 billion in...

According to the industry group PYMNTS, failed payments cost subscription merchants as much as 9% - 11% of their revenue. While some of that revenue loss represents ...

Companies that fall under the MCC category of “digital games” include the merchants that sell and distribute digital games or game-related products. More specificall...

A token requestor ID (TRID) is a unique identifier that allows merchants to request network tokens from token providers and is a prerequisite for enabling network to...

As 2022 came to a close, we knew we wanted to spend time on 4 key components of our product: Global expansion, developer integration experience, enhancing tokenizati...

Negative option merchants are merchants that offer an enticing option for customers, like a free trial, that requires a credit card to sign up. The customer, in turn...

Like so many full-service payment providers, Stripe offers an apparently very simple proposition: run all your payment transactions through their system and pay a si...

Triangulation fraud is a complicated fraud scheme that occurs, predominantly in ecommerce, between three parties: an unsuspecting customer, a fraudulent seller, and ...

What is P2PE? P2PE stands for point to point encryption, and is used to refer to a method of payment security in which all data is encrypted, stored, and controlled ...

Merchants that want to integrate payments directly into their website or application have several options for doing so, but will often eventually look to iframe (inl...

Tokens: What is a Token Vault? A token is a non-exploitable identifier that references sensitive data. Tokens can take any shape, are safe to expose, and are easy to...

Payments become delinquent when they are not made according to a pre-agreed schedule. Almost by definition, then, they are almost always associated with recurring pa...

What is Payments Vaulting? Merchants are said to be ‘vaulting payments’ when they contract with a partner, which stores sensitive cardholder data securely and provid...

What are Payment Orchestration Platforms (POPs)? Payment orchestration providers, also known as payment orchestration platforms (POPs), offer a range of payment and ...

What is Vendor Lock-in? Vendor lock-in describes a situation where a customer becomes entirely dependent on a specific vendor for products or services, and switching...

The Payments Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) outlines hundreds of requirements for storing, processing, and transmitting cardholder data. Any business...

The terms “payment tokens” and “network tokens” can be found trending as far back as early 2004, but conversation around them has become inescapable in the last few ...

What is a Universal Payment Vault? A payment vault is a storage facility where merchants securely manage customer payment details, and transmit them to payment partn...

Estimates suggest that somewhere between 36% and 50% of all transactions worldwide are now completed digitally. While this may not come as a surprise to many, what m...