Custom Payment API Integration: When a Business Needs One and What to Ask a Payment Provider
A custom payment API integration is code that connects your own software to a payment platform, so customers can pay inside your product without being sent somewhere else. Most businesses do not need one, and the ones that do should decide with a short list of...
Restaurant and Bar Card Payments: Tips, Tip Adjustments, Chargebacks and the Equipment That Fits
A restaurant card payment is a two-step event, and that is the root of most restaurant payment problems. The card is approved for one amount when the check is paid, and the tip often arrives afterward, so the final charge can be larger than what the card was approved...
High-Risk Payment Gateways for Shopify and Other Hosted Stores: What to Check Before You Choose One
A high-risk payment gateway is not a special kind of checkout. The gateway is the same secure doorway on every store, and the “high risk” part comes from the merchant account behind it, which is approved for a business that a bank sees as carrying extra...
Secure Payment Processing for Businesses: What Keeps Card Transactions Safe and What You Are Responsible For
Secure payment processing is not one product. It is four layers working together: protection for the card number itself, a way to check that the person paying is allowed to, screening that catches suspicious orders, and your own daily habits. Some of those layers are...
Integrated Payment Systems: What They Are, How They Connect to Your Software and How to Choose One
An integrated payment system is a way of accepting payments in which the payment step is connected to the software you already run your business on, so a sale, an invoice or an order and its payment live in one record instead of two. The connection can be a card...
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