Tagged: digital commerce

March 24, 2023 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TYB is now available on the Shopify App Store, making it the “first” end-to-end Web3 community-powered loyalty solution available to Shopify’s merchants through an Avalanche-based platform. The app allows Shopify merchants “to implement TYB’s community-integrated-commerce tools to directly connect with and reward fans for taking… Read More

March 20, 2023 @ 11:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Infinicept, a provider of embedded payments, and LegitScript, a key playrer focused on merchant and product certification and website monitoring in the e-commerce and payment sectors, announced a partnership to deliver comprehensive merchant monitoring capabilities. Together, Infinicept and LegitScript will “provide a robust and holistic… Read More

March 17, 2023 @ 2:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Forter, the Trust Platform for digital commerce, announced its partnership with Wix.com Ltd. (Nasdaq: WIX), a global SaaS platform to create, manage, and grow an online presence. The partnership reportedly “delivers Forter’s accurate, real-time decisions to Wix merchants in certain countries — increasing their approval… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 9:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Rally Commerce, the headless, one-click checkout solution for digital merchants, announces a partnership with Swell in order “to give merchants better control over their business and deliver a seamless checkout experience for customers.” Swell’s infrastructure “coupled with Rally’s checkout empowers small merchants to scale their… Read More

February 16, 2023 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enfuce, the European card issuing and processing Fintech, has been selected by  Finnish e-commerce aggregator start-up Starcart in order “to offer its retailers and shoppers the speed, security and convenience of embedded virtual card payments.” The partnership is set “to transform the way in which… Read More

February 16, 2023 @ 4:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and global video game commerce company Xsolla announced plans to collaborate “on frictionless, secure, and rewarding payments for gamers — from enhanced checkout experiences using credit card loyalty points1 to simple in-game currency gifting to improved creator payout processes and more.” The… Read More

February 14, 2023 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a “first” for biometric payments in the UAE, Network International, the enabler of digital commerce in the MENA region, and Carrefour, owned and operated by Majid Al Futtaim in the UAE, announced that they have “implemented the Face Pay face verification platform for payments… Read More

February 9, 2023 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new insight report – The perfect payment partner? What merchants are looking for from their PSPs – from Banking Circle, the next generation technology-led Payments Bank, suggests that the services currently “offered by Payment Service Providers aren’t going far enough to support the shift… Read More

February 6, 2023 @ 4:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Post-COVID-19 holiday shoppers flocked to online sales “in unprecedented numbers in 2022, bringing along with it an increased risk of chargebacks.” Monica Eaton, founder of Chargebacks911, advises eCommerce merchants “to act now and protect themselves from first-party fraud.” As holiday shoppers navigated the post-COVID-19 inflationary… Read More

February 2, 2023 @ 3:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WooCommerce B2B stores can now easily add business buy now, pay later options within their eCommerce checkout thanks to the Kriya Payments plug-in. As our planet sets off on another orbit, it is natural for our minds “to gravitate towards a lull of self-reflection on… Read More

January 31, 2023 @ 7:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BharatX, an emerging white labelled credit enabler for e-commerce merchants, has  announced its partnership with Snitch – an online men’s clothing brand to offer buy now pay later services. Through the “SnitchPay” feature powered by BharatX, customers will be able “to pay for their purchases… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Forter, the Trust Platform for digital commerce, announced the acquisition of Immue, a bot detection company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Forter’s first acquisition will “not only strengthen the company’s existing fraud management capabilities but add Immue’s domain-specific bot expertise.” Bots are used “by the… Read More

January 18, 2023 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The financial services sector has evolved considerably during the past decade, with many new Fintech startups and banking challengers raising substantial funding to fundamentally improve how consumers perform transactions. Individuals and business organizations across the globe have been moving their activities online, a digital transformation… Read More

January 17, 2023 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Splitit Payments Limited (ASX:SPT), which claims to be the only white-label service allowing customers to pay by installments using their existing credit on their payment card at checkout, announced that Splitit and Alipay have formed a partnership “to power the ‘Pay After Delivery’ option for… Read More

January 9, 2023 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ChatGPT—the recently launched language processing AI model developed by OpenAI—has been “wowing users with its uncanny abilities to hold conversations, write essays, and even program computers,” according to an update shared with CI. However, the real value of conversational AI for digital commerce companies “lies… Read More

January 5, 2023 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Instead of dealing with different platforms and currencies, receipts and invoices, and arguing with banks over spend limits, you can consider using services provided via Juni. The company explains that with automatic receipt generation, real-time spend insights and Google Ads invoices auto-pulled into your account,… Read More

December 29, 2022 @ 1:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. eCommerce sales “increased by 50.5% from 2019 to 2021,” according to an update shared by Chargebacks911. While eCommerce growth is “predicted to slow to 9.4% year over year in 2022, online sales are expected to cross the $1 trillion… Read More

December 18, 2022 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rakuten France has announced the launch of an integrated payment solution, Club R Pay, becoming the first e-commerce player to offer such a system in marketplaces. A universal integrated payment solution, Club R Pay facilitates purchases “for the 12 million members of the Club R… Read More

December 11, 2022 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Computop, a global payment service provider, and ESW, the direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce company, announced that the companies have “extended their strategic partnership in several key global markets.” Building on its nine-year relationship with Computop in the UK, ESW will now also “use its Paygate payment… Read More

December 9, 2022 @ 3:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MarketTime, the provider of order-writing, business intelligence and B2B eCommerce platforms in the industry, has announced its payments solution will be powered by Balance, the B2B payments experience company “offering the first online checkout built for businesses.” Balance claims it is “flipping the old, complacent… Read More