That may be the most germane quote — the “takeaway” if you will — from an interview that Nitin Sumangali did regarding MasterCard Global Insights’ recent white paper on consumer spending habits and whether they’re still in a “recession mindset.”
Category: Merchant Services
Make Your Business Stronger Than Ever with AVP Solutions
In order to keep your business growing, you need business merchant services that provide easy solutions to all of your e-commerce needs. It is a fact that most people carry little or no cash because it is more convenient to use credit cards. Another fact is that more and more people are shopping online where cash is really not an option.
Changes in Attitude, and in Credit Score Latitude
Two news items this week show that your customers relationship to the credit cards they use to buy from you are changing. And also, more of them might be deemed worthy of that credit that previously thought.
Get the Best Merchant Services with AVP Solutions
Today, there are many different ways that customers pay and if you can’t accommodate a preferred method for a customer, money is lost. As a merchant, you need to be able to accept all forms of payment so that you don’t miss a sale.
Retail, E-commerce or Mobile – You Need a Merchant Account Partner
In today’s economy, every business has to adopt a cutting edge strategy in order not only to survive, but prosper. Whether your business is a store front, online or takes you on the road, you need to be able to accept payment in all forms. Cash has taken a backseat to credit cards, debit cards, checks, online payments and mobile payment processing.
Make the Most of your Sales with a Website Merchant Account
For parts of the last two decades, hundreds of millions of dollars have been transacted through the Internet and millions of people have gotten wealthy by positioning themselves in a relatively new way of doing business. The trend continues today and there has never been more need for a business merchant provider to help your business with online payment services and overall guidance in transacting business electronically.
EMVs and Travel
As noted in this space before, new EMV (Europay/MasterCard/Visa) security standards are slowly coming to credit cards in America. Basically, the card relies on a chip, rather than a magnetic stripe, for its pertinent information, and its information is harder to clone, or hack.
In the News: Card Use Encouraged; Card Use Cut Back
It’s that time of year where we start to monitor the trends over consumer card use — particularly with summer travel season looming. But two other initial trends this spring caught our eye first, and may shed some light on where your customers are at.
….And Yet, M-Commerce — and M-Everything — Is Still On the Rise!
The headline is a direct follow up to last week’s blog post, which concerned one merchant’s unfortunate overreaction to “showrooming,” that mobile-device enabled method of seeing a product “live” in a store, then turning to a handy screen to see if you can get it for a better price.
