PayPal launched its PayPal Here card reader in 2012, allowing sellers to accept in-person payments by connecting the swiper to their smartphones. Today it launched new two new card readers with up-to-date technology: the Swipe reader and the Chip and Read more
Online sellers are being swept up in new confusion this year over Form 1099K as they prepare to file their income tax with the IRS and their state departments of revenue. New laws targeting income tax evaders are impacting small Read more
Volusion has integrated with Apple Pay, allowing merchants on its ecommerce platform to accept the payment method for transactions. Press release follows: Volusion, the only all-in-one e-commerce platform on the market built specifically for the needs of small businesses, today Read more
A reader told us he was at the movies last night and saw a preview ad for a payment service called Zelle. “I love when EcommerceBytes does compare and contrast on anything in the ecommerce field. I am getting so Read more
Stripe announced it is ending support for Bitcoin payments. In a blog post this week, Product Manager Tom Karlo said Bitcoin’s evolution has made it less useful for payments and better suited to being an asset rather than a means Read more
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman took to the corporate blog on Thursday to praise users for their charitable giving. People donated over $1 billion to charities and non-profits during the holiday season (Nov. 27 – Dec. 31, 2017), he revealed. “This Read more
Google took a page out of Amazon’s marketing book by consolidating its Android Pay and Google Wallet payments services into one brand on Monday: Google Pay. With Amazon’s Alexa technology enabling voice shopping through the Echo smart speaker, Google could Read more
It was supposed to make buying and selling across borders easier, but the merger between US money-transfer firm MoneyGram and China’s Alipay parent Ant Financial has been nixed. However, the two companies will work together on new strategic initiatives in Read more
PayPal UK has published an ebook, “How to sell like Christmas all year round,” and is making it available on its website at no charge. Between one fifth and one third of UK retail sales occur in the lead up Read more
BigCommerce is now allowing merchants to offer Visa Checkout on their stores. The integration allows customers who are enrolled in Visa Checkout to use pre-stored payment details and address information to complete a purchase on BigCommerce stores on desktop, tablet Read more
