eCommerce Blog Posts

If you’re looking to take credit card payments through your WooCommerce store, WooCommerce Payments offers a ready-made solution. WooCommerce Payments allows businesses to accept payments and monitor sales activity through their store’s dashboard.

Selling vape online is a productive way to tap into a lucrative and growing market. The best platforms include resources that help you discover how to sell vape online and tools you can use to stay in compliance with legal requirements for selling e-liquid. In this post, we’ll walk you through four of the best platforms, discuss their pricing, and outline some of the features that will help you sell vape online.

Shopify Payments is Shopify’s built-in payment processing feature, which allows you to accept credit and debit cards, as well as additional payment methods. By default, Shopify Payments is a white label version of Stripe and has most of that payment processor’s strengths and weaknesses. Learn more about Shopify Payments and how to set it up for your small business.

Whether you want a way to sell your own original art online or your business involves selling reproductions of other artists’ work, this list of the best places for selling art online can help you find the resources you need to pick the right method for you. We’ll dig a little deeper into each option, so you can see how easy it can be to show off your artwork, promote your business, gain exposure, and make the sale.

While some merchants choose to navigate Etsy’s ever-shifting fees and guidelines, many sellers are tired of constantly adjusting their prices to reflect new fees. If you’re one of those sellers who is fed up with Etsy’s various fees, it might be time to try something different.

Which shipping carrier is best for businesses? We’ll compare the top three shipping providers — UPS, USPS, and FedEx — to see which is best in terms of pricing, services, delivery times, and more.

Is your online store ready for the holidays? With 20 – 30% of all annual sales taking place during the holidays, it should be. Here are our top tips to prepare your eCommerce store for the holiday sales rush.

Maybe you remember the Hugh Jackman ad years ago where he asks: “Did you know SecureCode allows you to do more than pay safely?” Or, maybe you’re distracted by new, better Wolverine ads, currently. Either way, businesses and consumers alike should be sinking their claws into Mastercard’s SecureCode program. Mastercard’s SecureCode is a security measure […]

AVS is an acronym for the Address Verification Service, a feature that’s used to compare the address given to you by your customer and the billing address on file with the cardholder’s issuing bank. AVS serves two primary functions: (1) to deter fraud by confirming that the customer is the legitimate cardholder, and (2) to help prevent chargebacks by giving you additional information to verify your customer’s identity. Read on for more info.

A cross border fee is a credit card processing fee charged whenever a merchant in one country (e.g., the US) accepts payment from a customer whose card originates from another country (e.g., Mexico). Cross-border fees are fixed, non-negotiable fees set by card networks.