Card-Not-Present Payment Integration: Mistakes to Avoid
In the rapidly expanding Internet of Things, there is increasing pressure to bring payments into your customers’ daily experience through mobile or cloud-hosted apps. Here are some mistakes to avoid.
Must-Have Payment Functionality
To be successful in winning over the end user today, ISVs need to have a variety of payment functionalities that can offer the user an efficient and seamless payment experience.
The Importance of Omnichannel Payment Acceptance
Today, it’s more important than ever to accept payments in the method the customer prefers. Here's what you need to know about omnichannel payments and your software.
Payment Security Essentials
Follow this advice to minimize the risk of breach or data loss to you or your customers.
Choosing the Right Payment Processing Partner
When a software solution is paired with value-added services such as integrated payment processing, it enhances the merchant’s ability to streamline daily operations. As a software vendor, how do you make the right choice in selecting the best options?
Understanding and Optimizing Payment Residuals: Drive Down to the Basics
To understand the residuals available to you from a payment processing partnership, it’s critical to know how a payment is processed and to comprehend interchange costs.
The 3 Biggest Field Service Challenges a Software Application Should Address
Software applications need to address field service challenges with analytics, scheduling solutions, and insights into the market.
Retail Business Requirements ISVs Need to Address to Succeed
Greater mobility, more effective ways to engage consumers and better workflows are in demand in the retail vertical.
3 Things Omnichannel Consumers Want from Restaurants
ISVs need to provide restaurants with solutions that allow them to connect with omnichannel customers and provide the convenience and personalized service they’re looking for.
Education Institutions Need a Payments Solution Now More than Ever
Schools need solutions that save administrators time and resources and give parents and students easier, more secure ways to pay than accepting cash or checks.
AI, Ethics and the Human Element
Using artificial intelligence in a responsible manner means looking past the technology alone and addressing concerns such as displacing workers, privacy and accountability.
Business Partnerships: How Cross-Promotion Can Help With Marketing Content
Alliances can help you reach new audiences and create co-marketing content that your customers and prospects will find compelling and useful.
Software Applications: The Infrastructure Behind Smart Cities
The applications you develop, APIs that enable integration, and solutions that support the vision of a connected environment will make smart cities a reality.
How to Build More Recurring Revenue
Service retainers, membership programs, and online courses all hold the potential to help ISVs increase recurring revenue.
How To Improve Your Team’s Customer Alignment
Customer satisfaction is an essential factor for long-term success, and it starts with a team that works together and communicates to create exceptional user experiences.
Simplifying the Complex: Explaining Technology Value to Non-Technical Prospects
If you’re asked to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience, here are some tips you can use.
Payment Data: The Valuable Insight Merchants Want
Payment data presents specific benefits that can help merchants optimize their businesses and remain relevant.
The 5 Best Practices for Qualifying Leads
Identifying leads in your target audience and where they are in the sales funnel can help you focus and improve conversion rates.
5 Trends that Will Impact ISV Businesses in 2020
How will IoT, cybersecurity solutions, progressive web apps, 5G and AI trends drive changes in your business?
The Latest Payment Technology Trends
As we continue to see disruption in the payments world, there are technology trends that create large opportunities for software developers.
Preserving Productivity While Working Remotely
As we all work to “flatten the Coronavirus curve” what can developers do to remain productive in their quest to help their merchants maximize their profits?
State of the Restaurant Industry, Q4 2020
Restaurants need your assistance now more than ever. What's your strategy to help them survive the pandemic?
What Solutions Providers Need To Know About Contactless, Touchless Payments Trends
No-touch processes are in-demand, as are trusted advisors who can help their clients find the right solutions for their businesses.
5 Changes That Will Create Software Developer Opportunities in 2021
These opportunities await software developers in the COVID—and post-COVID—world.
Keeping Up with the Evolving Payment Experience
Over the years, merchants have been continually forced to adapt to the changing needs and preferences of consumers. Now more than ever, we are living in a consumer-driven economy, and with evolving technologies, the power of the consumer has filtered all the way to the payments experience. As consumers increasingly use digital tools to shop, they now expect to be able to pay how they want, when they want, anywhere they want.
The Race for the Top Slot in Smart Terminals Is on With an Entry From North American Bancard
The era of the smart point-of-sale terminal has already dawned, and now the race is on for dominance. North American Bancard Holdings LLC on Thursday launched its PayAnywhere smart terminal, which runs on NAB’s PayAnywhere mobile-payment software. The move follows news earlier this week that terminal startup Poynt Co. is jockeying to provide what it calls a common operating system for smart POS devices.
Ensuring Electronic Payment Security for Specialty Merchants
Most merchants are in business because of their passion about a product or service, and because they are interested in making money. To succeed, business owners must be prepared for the many obstacles they can face. When it comes to electronic payment acceptance, security is one of the challenges that is best faced upfront to avoid even greater obstacles down the road.
Smart payment solutions: What is the payments industry doing to keep up?
We've come to expect certain levels of safety, security, and convenience when it comes to payments. Today, consumers are using their phones, watches, and even their cars to pay for various goods and services. Recently, the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and MLS' Atlanta United, switched to only accepting credit and debit cards and mobile pay methods – effectively doing away with cash. Eliminating the costs of handling cash, minimizing security exposures, and effectively speeding up transaction times for customers are just a few of the core demands for today’s payment experience. The emerging trend of leveraging smart devices to improve the customer experience is growing at tremendous rates, and the payments industry is strategically poised to deliver on the demand.
Sales Partners: Driving a simplified ISV sales strategy
Independent software vendors (ISVs) are busy trying to build customized products, account for the end-user’s experience across multiple markets, and drive sales. ISVs also face issues like timeliness, usability, and scalability – all while the demands of a new consumer segment (Gen Z, etc.), and an evolving business culture are throwing a wrench into the mix. Needless to say, challenges exist.
Transcend: North American Bancard’s Premiere Payment Conference
We’ve all been to sales conferences before. Good ones, and not so good ones. When North American Bancard first started talking about hosting a Sales Partner conference, there were a number of elements that went into the planning and positioning the conference. NAB wanted to not just have another sales conference, but wanted to give our Sales Partners, sponsors, and vendors an experience that they would not soon forget.
Better merchant compliance helps you, your peers, and your country!
PCI Plus: The answer to the PCI compliance crisis and U.S. security threats
North American Bancard fuels growth for sales partners and ISOs
Business today is complicated as consumer needs and expectations shift. Whether it is about speed or the customer experience, more is expected, at an unprecedented pace. Merchants looking to manage consumer expectations in the payments arena often need help from a payments expert (sales partner) that is in tune with the shifting market needs. Sales partners offer a unique consultative approach merchants need to help them respond to the shifting landscape.
The Programs and Solutions Sales Partners and Merchants Need Now.
Given the challenging set of circumstances we are all currently facing, time is of the essence. That is why it is absolutely imperative that payments technology companies equip both Sales Partners and their merchants with the solutions, programs, and support they need to compete right now. At North American Bancard, that’s precisely what we have committed to doing.
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Thinking of cashing in on some of your residuals to get capital? Worried about how the uncertainty of potential administration changes in Washington could impact your bottom line? Inching closer towards retirement? No matter what your reasons, now is the perfect time to cash in on your portfolio. That’s because payments technology leader North American Bancard is currently offering its biggest upfront residual buyout offer ever!
ETA YPP Scholar – Generation Z: The Unknown Factor
To date, the payments industry has been focused on Millennial consumer habits and their impact on merchant services, all with good reason: They are an influential consumer base shaping industry norms. Seventy percent of them are known to spend at least 25 percent of their day on social media, they are our first generation of digital natives, and they represent our upcoming population of small and medium-sized business owners.
'Open banking' can rescue issuers vexed by Generation Z's complex payment needs
As we search further into the psyche of millennial consumerism and habits, digital natives and their preferences become realized. At the same time, we are also being introduced to newer, potentially more influential, demographic that is setting foot into the payments realm: Generation Z.