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Cards vs. Pay by Bank: Which payment methods should your checkout offer?
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Chargebacks: how the dispute process works and what merchants must provide
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Virtual cards for SaaS ad spend: Boost campaign uptime, security, and ROI
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How to accept card payments on your website: step-by-step for EU merchants
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Cross-border payment routing: rails, multi-currency accounts, and fee strategy
You’ve probably heard enough bad stories about intermediary bank fees and currency conversion. But how far can it go? Here’s a good example provided by the Bank of Canada. According to the 2026 paper, banks in the Canadian cross-border business payment sample quoted total margins of around 2–3.5%, mostly from currency conversion. Meaning, on a €10,000 payment, a 2% total cost would equal €200. If the payment value is higher and you do dozens or hundreds of transactions, it is even worse. The amount would be unacceptable for many. Can you reduce intermediary bank fees when it comes to cross-border
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Cards vs. Pay by Bank: Which payment methods should your checkout offer?
Getting an online shopper from discovery to your checkout page takes real effort. You have spent time, budget, and creative energy building an intuitive website, marketing your inventory, and earning the visitor’s trust. Yet studies consistently show that nearly 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned before completion. A major culprit behind this friction is a checkout that fails to offer the shopper’s preferred way to pay. Debit and credit cards have long been a familiar way to pay online. Now, alternative payment methods give shoppers more choice. One option is Pay by Bank, which lets customers pay directly from
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Chargebacks: how the dispute process works and what merchants must provide
The chargeback dispute process is an inevitable part of any online merchant’s work. Sometimes people want their money back, a product lacks quality, shipping goes wrong, or fraud occurs – and for a merchant, it is nothing special. What matters is how they get their money back: a refund when a merchant initiates it, or a chargeback when the bank forcibly cancels the purchase and returns the money. Either way, merchants lose sales, but chargebacks cost an extra fee and count against your chargeback rate, which matters a lot in parts. The chargeback dispute process is another topic entirely: any
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Virtual cards for SaaS ad spend: Boost campaign uptime, security, and ROI
What does a marketing campaign look like nowadays? It’s mostly the use of Meta, Google Ads, TikTok, and LinkedIn. Some may say they prefer Kick or influencer marketing. So, why do so many companies prefer to divide their budget for each activity separately using virtual cards? Fewer payment failures, plus stronger security. A sudden billing spike can trigger automated fraud blocks or a suspended Google Ads account. Not a big deal if you have virtual cards for ad spend. Additionally, your operations on the accounting side improve as well – Amazon spending belongs to the Amazon campaign, Google-related spending to
