In the world of payments, we spend enormous effort securing transactions—encryption, tokenization, fraud checks, velocity rules, reconciliation logic.Yet one critical piece is often overlooked:The link itself...
Market Reality, Power Structures, and the Future of PaymentsExecutive SummaryStripe’s dominance in online payments is often misunderstood as a technology advantage. In reality, Stripe’s strength lies in...
Integrating ACH Processing Co.’s API for Seamless Payment Automation In today’s digital landscape, businesses need secure, efficient, and automated solutions to manage their payment workflows. The ACH...
The payment industry is complex, often surrounded by myths that can mislead businesses. From misunderstandings about costs to false beliefs about transaction security, these misconceptions can impact...
Implementing Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) on Your E-commerce Platform: Tools, APIs, and Code Snippets In an article that I published a while back, I talked about different platforms that you can use for Buy Now...
The world of cryptocurrency has rapidly evolved, and PHP developers have multiple ways to incorporate crypto functionalities into web applications. This guide will walk you through different use cases, from...
Gift cardsShoppers love them, and small businesses are harvesting the profits of one of the retail industry’s most positive trends.Neiman Marcus sold the first gift cards in 1994 as novelty items. In 1995...
Although neither cash discount nor surcharge scheme is new in the payment industry, many merchants are considering them as an option to offset their processing cost in a Post-COVID world.Let see how these two method...
I have been on the front and center of the POS design, development, marketing, and sale for close to two decades.Point Of Sale software applications are sophisticated, ever-changing, and require constant development and...
PHP is a powerful backend programming language for web app development. It is also the most popular.If you have ever developed in PHP, you know that your work could quickly become tedious.For every function, you want to...
Hosted PaymentsWhen you’re running a business where you receive payments in a manner that the physical card is not present, such as online payments and eCommerce, you need to figure out how to take payment from...
I helped a friend to connect two Windows EC2 instances on the AWS.The nature of the project did not require an Amazon VPC, and so my approach was as follow:1- Using RDP, I connected to each server and tried to ping the...
IntroductionFor end-users, it is much easier if they could enter the digits from a numeric keypad, and the currency format automatically applies, instead of entering a decimal point and numbers!BackgroundIn many PoS...
BackgroundPHP, as it’s known today, is the successor to a product named PHP/FI. Created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf, the very first incarnation of PHP was a simple set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries...
I recently participated in an exciting integration project in which we integrated into the Clearent Cloud-Based solution.In this article, I share with you some of the highlights of the project.About ClearentClearent is...
This is a multipart article by my great friend and colleague, Minda Harrell.Part 1:The world of restaurants will look different now that Covid-19 has entered our lives. How do we create an environment usually devoted to...
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