Between Chargebacks and returns, the latter is by far the lesser of the two evils. When it comes to the best return policy, few rival Zappos, which makes it easy for its customers to return items: ready-made labels, free shipping and 24-7 customer support. All the customer needs to do is log on to their Zappos…
Category: Merchant Accounts
One Good Reason to Start an E-Commerce Business
The numbers don’t lie. It’s a very good time to start an e-commerce business. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Commerce released data detailing the growth of e-commerce in 2015: an increase of 14.6 percent ($341.7 billion) from 2014 ($298.3 billion). A progress chart on InternetRetailer.org detailed significant e-commerce growth over the last 11 years.…
Merchant Accounts With the Best Customer Support
By Allison Pouliotte I sometimes doubt anyone with whom I work or Skype would recognize me without a headset on. Without a headset, I think I would have some serious neck issues. That’s because I am on the phone probably an average of three hours a day. Conscientiousness and engaging merchants: It’s how I turn…
Tech Support, Travel Top Instabill’s January Merchant Accounts
Tech support merchant accounts and travel-related industries continued to remain popular industries as Instabill released its top merchant account sales for the month of January on Tuesday. The trend was consistent with Instabill’s recent 2015 Q4 report in which the two industries were the top selling merchant accounts. What Else Was Popular? While tech support…
Instabill Offers New Domestic ACH Payments and Direct Debit Solutions
Instabill has partnered with a new acquiring bank to offer additional domestic ACH payments and direct debit solutions for high risk industries, CEO Jason Field announced Thursday. Through this partnership, Instabill has significantly broadened its breadth of payment service options to high and low risk merchants. The timing of the partnership couldn’t be better. According to…
Why Am I High Risk? What Defines a High Risk Merchant Account
By Wendy Jacques My sales team and I hear this every day, several times a day: “What? Why am I high risk? I just want to take credit card payments from my customers for my product or service?” Most merchants don’t understand why banks consider them high risk. This is one of the most complex…
Australian Businessman Believed To Be Bitcoin Founder
Bitcoin has taken the public by storm. It’s not just a hobby for tech enthusiasts anymore, but rather, an investment opportunity. It’s even begun to change the way the payments industry functions, and has caused many e-commerce merchants to open bitcoin merchant accounts. It has emerged as a safer way to spend money online, as…
Why Merchants Should Embrace 3D Secure Technology
Different countries – including India and South Africa – have begun to require merchants and credit card issuers to use 3D Secure technology for e-commerce transactions. And there are rumblings that the European Union will soon follow. Could the U.S. be next to mandate 3D Secure? The good folks here at Instabill think so. In fact,…
3 Reasons Why You Should Avoid PayPal Merchant Services
At the turn of the new century, the rapid success of eBay brought its payments brand, PayPal, into the spotlight. PayPal quickly emerged as a fast, secure, and convenient way of sending payments electronically, and over the years, became somewhat of a standard when purchasing products online. Now its own independent brand, PayPal has developed…