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Real-Time Payments Can Unlock New Value for Retailers

| Jack Baldwin

While real-time payments offer retailers faster processing and lower costs, they can unlock new value by enhancing the customer experience, improving loyalty and offering more insight into consumer needs and shopping behaviors. To capitalize on these opportunities, retailers and their PSPs need modern back-office systems designed to operate in a real-time payment environment.

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Unified Commerce Is the Future of Selling

| Yoav Kutner

A unified commerce strategy goes a step further than omnichannel, delivering increased agility, personalization and flexibility by integrating all aspects of commerce and connecting back-end and front-end operations into a single cohesive system. Everything is brought together to enable a personalized experience across touchpoints.  

New JavaScript Skimmer Stealing Customer Data from Ecommerce Sites

| Douglas P. Clement

Visa is warning ecommerce merchants about a new JavaScript skimmer targeting customer data entered at the point-of-sale (POS) in payment forms on sellers’ websites. Pipka is able to remove itself from the HTML code after it is successfully executed, thereby avoiding detection. Visa is giving merchants a list of mitigation measures.

Fanbank Lets Stores Sell Items on Facebook through Credit System

| Mike O'Brien

Fanbank, a Santa Monica, CA-based startup, aims to give small business owners a greater opportunity to reach online buyers by creating digital credits that can be redeemed in brick-and-mortar stores through Facebook ad campaigns. The ads show up in shoppers’ newsfeeds, and soon will be publishable on a merchant’s Facebook page.

How to Find the Right Multichannel Fulfillment Software

| Steve Weber

Vendor selection is extremely important in determining how well you serve customers in a multichannel environment. The key is to understand which vendors are trying to adopt a multichannel model, the effectiveness of their approach, and how well they are working with merchants to make it fit their business models.

How to Choose the Right POS Platform

| Ian Goldman

There are many reasons retailers find themselves shackled by point-of-sale platforms that no longer meet business needs. Find out how you can choose the right POS platform for your business.