5 Tips to Increase E-Commerce Conversions
In 2017, for the first time, global retail e-commerce sales will account for 10 percent of total retail sales, eMarketer reports. Despite the steady rise of digital sales and increasing usage of mobile devices for purchases, it’s not enough to just build an e-commerce site and expect sales to come....
5 Common Mistakes ISVs Make When Choosing a Payments Provider
Tie themselves to a single payment processor
The result for ISVs is that they:
Can’t dictate processing platforms to merchants. Many ISVs have learned this lesson the hard way. Regardless of the individual merits of the payment processor to which they’ve integrated directly, the simple fact is that a single-processor...
NCC Partners with Vantiv to Deliver the triPOS Cloud
NCC, a leading developer of retail and hospitality POS software solutions, has partnered with Vantiv Integrated Payments to deliver a faster, more secure EMV solution, the triPOS Cloud, to the industry.
Designed to solve security and EMV challenges, triPOS Cloud delivers PCI-validated P2PE security. TriPOS also features customer-facing payment terminals...
Cardknox & ID Tech Announce the First Zero-Integration Plug and Play EMV Solution for Point of Sale
Cardknox, a leading EMV and Omni-Channel payment gateway, and ID Tech, a global leader in payment peripherals, have announced the industry’s first zero-integration EMV solution. Becoming EMV compliant has traditionally been a lengthy and disruptive process for retailers, who have needed to purchase expensive hardware with vastly different payment...
Payment Basics Every ISV Needs to Know
The payment industry is in the midst of an exciting and turbulent period. According to research from Business Insider, mobile payment volume is projected to experience a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 80% between 2015 and 2020, reaching a payment volume of $503 billion. And in-store mobile payment...
Ingram Micro Expands Point-of-Sale Capabilities with Acquisition of The Phoenix Group
Ingram Micro Inc. today announced it has acquired The Phoenix Group, a leading U.S.-based specialty distributor of point-of-sale (POS) technology for the U.S. and Canadian electronic payments market, including, independent sales organizations (ISOs) focused on payment processing, banks and processors/acquirers.
This acquisition brings together The Phoenix Group’s electronic payments expertise,...
Creditcall & Worldpay Team Up to Simplify Integrations for ISVs
Omni-channel Payment Gateway and EMV Kernel provider Creditcall, along with Worldpay, a global leader in payments processing technology and solutions, have joined forces to give independent software vendors (ISVs), value added resellers (VARs), software developers, and system integrators access to Creditcall’s easily deployable ChipDNA SDKs. With Worldpay’s industry leading integration support and pre-certified payment...
North American Bancard Brings Alipay to Main Street Merchants
North American Bancard Holdings, LLC. (NAB), a multi-faceted and award-winning payment solutions provider, and Alipay, the world's largest online and mobile payments platform boasting more than 520 million users in China and beyond, announced today that Alipay is now available on NAB's wholly owned Electronic Payment Exchange (EPX) processing platform through a variety...
How a Lawyer Launched A Fintech Startup
Georgina Nelson was on maternity leave from her job as a lawyer in London when she decided to launch tech startup TruRating. Her work for a consumer protection association (similar to Consumer Reports) educated her on the consumer review space, including the problems of competitors leaving negative ratings and...
RevChip Seeks to Speed Up Payment Dev Cycles for POS Developers
No matter what you may have heard, the world is flat.
"Flat", in this case, refers to the economic term that describes how business activity naturally migrates to efficient producers when barriers like time, distance and tariffs don't matter. This free flow toward the world's most productive humans affects all occupations, from garment...
VARs, Integrators, MSPs, CSPs, and ISVs: DevPro Journal is Here to Help Your Software Business Flourish
I’ve seen a lot of changes over the past 17+ years since I started covering the B2B IT space. Four trends stand out from those early years:
RFID. In the early 2000s, the promise of one-cent RFID tags and “lights out warehousing” seemed right around the corner. Like all big ideas, the vision can be years ahead of the...
Keep This Payment Security Checklist Handy
It’s no secret that developing applications becomes even more complex when you look to integrate payment processing. There are literally hundreds of pages of rules and regulations by multiple bodies that you need to follow to ensure your software follows the necessary security protocols and best practices.
DevPro Journal had...
Test Your Payment Integration IQ
Let's face it. As a software developer, you want to spend time on building better software that meets the needs of the customers you serve, not struggling with payment processing integrations. Unfortunately, if you want credit card processing to be a part of your software, you need to have...
How a Millennial ISV is Perfecting Digital Customer Loyalty
Company Name: Spendgo
Founded: 2010
2017 Projected Sales Revenue Growth Rate: 200% +
Employees: 25
Website: www.spendgo.com
Verticals: hospitality, retail
Vendors: Apple, Epson, Google, Samsung
While many ISVs dream about inventing a new software solution or platform that’s unlike anything that’s existed previously, the probability for success is much more likely to happen by improving upon a...
Introducing DevPro Journal: How to Create a Profitable, Sustainable ISV Business
Nearly 20 years ago I became the part-owner of a small IT firm in Erie, PA. We had two sides of the house — a networking and general IT group that installed networks, PCs, and handled desktop support for customers in law, dental, and government; and a B2B software...
