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Many Effective Tools to Detect Stolen Credit Cards, Part 3 of 3
This is the third and final installment in a series outlining and explaining tools to identify and prevent credit card fraud. Previously, we discussed different methods of verification and geographic...
Effective Tools to Detect Stolen Credit Cards, Part 2 Of 3
Many online merchants are already on board with fraud-detection technology. To fill in the gaps, here is part two of a comprehensive list of fraud detection strategies. Previously we discussed...
Effective Tools to Detect Stolen Credit Cards, Part 1 Of 3
There are hundreds of branded tools that ecommerce merchants can turn to for help in catching fraudulent credit card orders. Some tools are free, and some come bundled or offered as additional...
PCI Compliance Is "Industry Self-Regulation"
The major credit card companies, Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, have collaborated on minimum payment-processing security requirements. These requirements make up the Payment Card...
Interview: Authorize.Net President On Fraud Prevention
Authorize.Net, a CyberSource Solution, is a leading payment gateway company with many years experience in combating credit card fraud. We asked Roy Banks, President of Authorize.Net, about common...
Credit Card Fraud: How Big Is The Problem?
Reports of website data breaches, identity theft and credit card fraud are increasingly in the news. But is the problem as widespread as the coverage suggests?
Anyone who collects payments or...
Protect Customers' Data Or Lose Your Business
Quick Query: PayPal Exec On Payment Disputes
Many ecommerce merchants allow customers to pay for their products using PayPal, the popular payment service that's owned by eBay. But some of these merchants say PayPal unfairly sides with customers...
Pay-per-click Ads Impact Google Checkout and PayPal
If you're running an ecommerce store, you've probably heard of PayPal and Google Checkout. The following is a quick rundown of things you might not have known about the two.
Google...
Debate: Hosted Shopping Carts "Perfect For Most Entrepreneurs"
1ShoppingCart is a hosted shopping cart with thousands of small business customers. Michael Valiant, 1ShoppingCart's product management and marketing specialist, offers his views on hosted cart...
Debate: Licensed Carts Offer Flexibility and Portability
ProductCart is a licensed shopping cart used by thousands of ecommerce merchants. We asked its CEO, Massimo Arrigoni, whether licensed shopping-cart software is better for smaller businesses than...
Lowering Shopping Cart Abandonment
As an ecommerce owner, you always want to make the checkout process as quick and smooth as possible for your own ecommerce customers. Here’s a quick checklist of simple website changes that could...
Quick Query: Alternative Payment Option eBillme
Marwan Forzley is president and CEO of online payment alternative eBillme (Modasolutions.com), formerly known as SECURE-eBill.
How does a consumer use eBillme?
Forzley: When you are at the...
Is Your Website Ready For The Holiday Shopping Season?
Anyone’s who has talked with me for any given amount of time will tell you I’m adamant about testing sites for security and navigation. Summer is the perfect time to plot out upcoming holiday...
Online Payment Alternative: Bill Me Later
Vince Talbert is the vice president of marketing for I4 Commerce (pronounced "eye four commerce"), a company offering the online payment alternative Bill Me Later at I4commerce.com.
What does Bill...
Analysis: The New PayPal
To more than 50 million users, PayPal used to signify a peer-to-peer payment exchange that relied largely on email notifications. Not anymore. While PayPal still stands as one of the most recognized...
What Do You Dislike About Your Shopping Cart?
RON JONAS, SALES AND SYSTEMS DESIGN
WEBSITE: Soapequipment.com
SELLS: Equipment for the handcrafted body care products industry
ANSWER: We offer live UPS shipping rates, but for some reason...
What You Didn't Know About Payment Systems
What you don't know can truly hurt your online business. This has never been more true than when you set out to choose an Internet payment systems. It's not so much that making a wrong decision can...
Fraud-Proofing Your Ebiz
I know a business that had its website hacked: Its entire customer database was hijacked and thousands of customer credit card numbers were stolen at the same time.
In the following months, the...
Lowering Cart Abandonment
With shopping cart abandonment at a high level, ecommerce owners continue to look for ways to motivate shoppers to complete the checkout process.
Research from Shop.org indicates shoppers abandon...
AuctionCheckout.com's John Waldron and Sloane Bouchever
What makes AuctionCheckout different from PayPal?
In the PayPal environment today, if you're selling, the funds from your transactions are going into your PayPal account. PayPal is not a...
Product Images Matter
One distinct advantage to a brick-and-mortar store has over a business in the virtual world is that customers can touch the products on the racks and shelves at the local mall. Local retailers know that if they can get you to touch a...
The Rising Tide of Alternative Payment Systems
Alternative-payment systems are flowing into the payment processing industry. During the last two years, many new options have been announced, re-announced, tested, trialed, released or re-released. Many others are in development.
Marc...
Shopping Cart Checklist
We’ve assembled a checklist to help you narrow your shopping cart requirements. The checklist is divided into six areas: function, shipping issues, payment processing, support, technical...
The Future of Ecommerce Solutions
Given the trends in the marketplace, what do you see on the horizon for ecommerce solutions?
This is such a dynamic field. Every day is a new day in the world of ecommerce. We see a lot of...
Hosted Shopping Cart Solutions
How would you describe the merits of a hosted solution compared to various software solutions that are in the marketplace?
I think it starts with the fundamental premise that people start...
Getting to the Heart of the Cart
If you came to this article hoping we’d tell you exactly which shopping cart you should choose for your business, you will be disappointed. We don’t know.
However, thanks to the expertise of a pair of industry veterans, the process...
Shopping Cart Software Solutions
What are some distinctive characteristics of shopping carts that you might share with a new ecommerce business?
I’d say everything has a place. Yahoo! Stores has over 150,000 merchants now...
Does Google Checkout Affect Your Business?
On June 30, 2006 Google launched a service called Google Checkout. This is a new application allowing businesses to process online orders through Google. It serves as an alternative to PayPal or regular credit-card processing.
It’s...
BuySafe.com Founder Steve Woda
For every person who shops on the Internet, there are hundreds of others who don’t – who won’t. They don’t want to. They feel, with some justification, that doing so would lead to the...
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