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A Guide to Combating High Credit Card Decline Rates

| Jasmine Brown

For an online merchant, the most important measure of success is almost always the conversion rate: the more customers complete the checkout, the higher your revenues. But there is an equally significant metric that many merchants struggle with, that can impact your business: decline rates. Here are some ways businesses can combat credit card decline rates to ensure success.

What Do Your Customers Really Want This Holiday Season?

| Oren Levy

With the holiday season not too far off, retailers are already getting ready. It is important to start looking at what your customers want and expects in the weeks and days leading up to the holiday shopping season. Millennials are particularly an important demographic to look at when it comes figuring out how to begin the holiday preparation. Here are a few tips to get started before the holiday rush.

Rio 2016 – How to Win the Payment Olympics

| Oren Levy

Although the jury is still out as to whether the Summer Olympics in Brazil will serve as a vital lifeline or a costly folly, there is one aspect that inspires universal agreement: Olympic participants, hundreds of thousands of visiting fans, and even native Brazilians need to feel secure and comfortable when making purchases in a country well known for its credit card cloning activities. Here are several examples of how to win in the payment Olympics.