Business services
What to look for in a European payment provider before you integrate
Business services
What happens to your money between a card payment and your account
Business services
Hosted payment page vs host-to-host integration: which checkout fits your business?
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Month in review: August 2026
Business services
Demystifying PCI DSS for merchants: what you actually need depending on your integration
When it comes to accepting credit card payments online, PCI DSS for merchants is one of the most frequently misunderstood topics in the e-commerce industry. Business owners, CTOs, and payment operations managers often assume it is a strict government law or statutory regulation. In reality, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an industry security standard established by the major payment card schemes: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and JCB. It is governed and maintained by the independent body known as the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). Because it is not a legal statute, you will
Business services
What to look for in a European payment provider before you integrate
Selecting a payment provider is one of the most critical operational decisions for an online business, scale-up, or enterprise platform. European businesses lean more toward choosing a European payment provider as their primary choice. But the payment landscape in the EU is unique: it is controlled by strict, evolving regulations like PSD2 and DORA, and payment infrastructure has been fragmented until recent political decisions to achieve sovereignty in the European payment landscape. Today, we’re seeing a rapid shift from card networks, which are mostly of non-European origin, to real-time account-to-account (A2A) payments. How to choose the right partner in this
Business services
What happens to your money between a card payment and your account
Not many really understand how the card payment settlement process works. Usually only people in banking do. At checkout, the customer sees a confirmation for an order – they paid, and their money moved on. But your business bank account didn’t receive even a penny, at least not yet. There are reasons for that, and depending on the payment option, it’s primarily to allow customers to make chargebacks. It is basically why any merchant account holds a rolling reserve – a percentage of your daily sales. Our team wants to share the common reasoning behind the card payment settlement process
Business services
Hosted payment page vs host-to-host integration: which checkout fits your business?
Every e-commerce merchant, SaaS founder, and digital business owner knows the sting of cart abandonment. You spend thousands on marketing, carefully optimize your product pages, and guide the user down the funnel – only for them to bounce at the final step. Often, the culprit is a disjointed, slow, or untrustworthy payment process. The architecture of your checkout flow plays a massive role in consumer trust, technical overhead, and bottom-line revenue. When setting up your digital payment infrastructure, the decision usually boils down to two primary architectural models: implementing a hosted payment page or building a custom host-to-host integration (self-hosted
