What Businesses Fail to Do When Selecting a Payment Gateway
That’s right, the payment gateway is almost always an afterthought to the primary systems that a business is using or considering using, whether it be a point-of-sale (POS) system, e-commerce shopping cart or other applications. Often, business owners or managers spend all their time researching their primary solution and virtually no time under...
PayPal Business Options – Accepting PayPal Through Your Site
The company, once part of eBay, originated as a ‘middle man’ between online sellers and buyers, offering protection. A buyer didn’t have to hand over their credit card information directly to a seller, and both buyer and seller would have a neutral third party to mediate any problems. Since its beginnings almost 20 years ago, PayPal has expanded...
Shopify vs. Volusion vs. BigCommerce: What Should You Use?
There's a lot to consider when starting your own ecommerce website, but we'll help sort it out in this comparison guide. We'll look at the most cost-effective solutions from the three big providers in the ecommerce space, Shopify, BigCommerce, and Volusion. Continue reading for details about monthly fees, transaction costs, payment solutions, marke...
Braintree vs. Stripe: Which is Better for Online Payments?
This Braintree vs. Stripe review will cover a number of different facets of the two services to help you make the right choice for your online business. What are online payment gateways? A payment gateway is the technology that allows you to take payments online. Gateways are integrated into ecommerce stores to authorize card payments, chec...
Authorize.Net Credit Card Processing Fees - Get It Elsewhere
Authorize.net is a great gateway provider, but it’s not a credit card processor. It actually farms out its credit card processing to its parent company, CyberSource. It also charges higher fees for its gateway than some of its resellers. That means you can use Authorize, but get it (at lower prices!) through one of its partners. The great thing ...
Online Sales Tax Rules for Ecommerce Businesses
This decision overturns a 1992 ruling in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota in which the Supreme Court ruled that a business must have a physical presence in a state for that state to require it to collect sales taxes. That means that any online business did not have to pay sales tax in states where it did not have nexus. However, the topic of online s...
