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Small businesses often struggle to compete with the bigger competitors out there that have significantly more infrastructure and resources at their disposal. However, the online environment and technology that has developed from it has leveled the playing field for many small businesses, helping them reach the same target audiences as the larger firms and provide significant growth opportunities. Technology continues to change how we can pay and accept payments. Albeit much more positive, challenges do remain for small businesses particularly in the area of payment processing.

Topics: Due.com Partner Posts, Guest Blog Posts, E-Commerce and Online Payments, Payment Technology, PCI Compliance and Fraud Prevention, Small Business Tips, Awareness

Part of an exceptional customer experience is to make the payment process as easy and convenient as possible. The faster customers can get their transaction completed in a secure and accurate way, the more likely they are to return for future purchases and recommend you to others. Easier also means greater convenience, variety, and security with every transaction.

Topics: Due.com Partner Posts, Guest Blog Posts, E-Commerce and Online Payments, Payment Technology

Chargebacks are becoming one of the biggest payment challenges for businesses of all sizes today. While some chargebacks are completely legitimate, it turns out that fraudsters have figured out a way to get more free merchandise using this refund technique. This becomes especially true when it turns out that credit card issuers, like banks, often rule for the cardholder (or fraudster posing as the card holder). Although any business can fall victim to this type of fraud, there are some businesses that have been identified as being more likely to be affected. These businesses are then labeled high risk by credit card processing companies and must contend with higher fees or the inability to even get a merchant account.

Topics: Due.com Partner Posts, Guest Blog Posts, Small Business Tips, Enterprise Business Tips

As a merchant or business owner, secure transactions are key to the trusting relationships you build with your customers. Your customers want to trust that you will keep their cardholder information secure and free from any theft or fraud.

Topics: Due.com Partner Posts, Guest Blog Posts, Payment Technology, PCI Compliance and Fraud Prevention, Getting Started with Payments

More cases of compromised credit card information in recent data breaches are impacting the ever-increasing requirements of the proper handling of cardholder data.

Topics: Due.com Partner Posts, Guest Blog Posts, PCI Compliance and Fraud Prevention, Small Business Tips, Enterprise Business Tips

There are literally hundreds of credit cards available to consumers and business people from different credit card brands, banks, and affiliate brands. With so many choices, it would seem like it wouldn’t make sense to keep introducing new types of credit cards, but they appear near daily with some other type of spin or offers.

Topics: Due.com Partner Posts, Guest Blog Posts, Payment Technology

You may not be familiar with the term, interchange optimization, but you will want to understand what it means and how this can impact your business and your bottom line.

Topics: B2B, Due.com Partner Posts, Guest Blog Posts, Payment Technology

Not all credit cards were created for the purpose of individual customer purchases. While primarily a consumer-oriented product, the advantages of using credit cards for business soon emerged to the point where a whole new market was created in which the card associations like Visa and MasterCard saw the potential of developing a line of business credit cards.

Topics: Due.com Partner Posts, Guest Blog Posts, Getting Started with Payments

It seems like mobile devices handle everything for consumers and business owners, including shopping, social lives, errands and bill pay -- just to name a few of the daily tasks that can be completed using a mobile phone these days. Businesses have been wise to make the use of the mobile for as many payments as possible, because these devices travel with us everywhere.

Topics: Due.com Partner Posts, Guest Blog Posts, Mobile Payments, Payment Technology

BluePay is pleased to bring you this valuable information from our partner, Due, makers of a free digital wallet that allows users to easily make and accept payments online.  Whether you see yourself as a salesperson or not, if you have a business, including working as a freelancer or startup founder, you are in sales. Essentially, to get revenue of any kind for a product or service, you have to sell what you are offering to an audience. You must convince them to buy from you instead of anyone else that does something similar. Some may find it easy to sell anything to anybody while others struggle with the concept.

Topics: Due.com Partner Posts, Guest Blog Posts, Small Business Tips, Enterprise Business Tips, Getting Started with Payments