Small Biz Trends

JUNE 27, 2025

With nearly three decades of experience in high-stakes environments, Stanley’s appointment comes at a pivotal time for PayPal, which has been striving to enhance its services for small businesses and consumers alike. Small business owners can particularly benefit from this deeper focus on innovation.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2024

And Amazons cloud-division, Amazon Web Services, which has long offered technology it has built in-house for use by other companies, just released a white-label AI shopping assistant for retailers and other businesses. In the near future, you might assign an AI assistant like Siri to manage your grocery shopping.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 11, 2025

Key Takeaways Understanding Funding Options: Small businesses have various funding avenues, including traditional loans, SBA loans, alternative financing, and crowdfunding, each with unique benefits and challenges. Invoice Financing : You can leverage outstanding invoices to receive immediate cash flow without waiting for customer payments.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2025

As todays shoppers celebrate the in-person experience post-COVID, its become clear to me that merchants accepting crypto can differentiate themselves from the pack and attract new and eager customers. From the merchant perspective, crypto payment acceptance is actually much less expensive than the costs associated with credit cards.

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 4, 2025

Pros and Cons: Weigh the advantages of access to capital, flexible terms, and credit building against the potential downsides like interest rates, debt burden, and stringent application processes. Navigating the world of financing can feel overwhelming, especially with so many options available. What Are Small Business Loans?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2023

The challenging economic environment, intense regulatory pressure and ever-present threat of fraud are creating a perfect storm that’s sweeping across the global payments landscape. Instead of seeing compliance as a painful obligation, it’s time to see it as a springboard for innovation, expansion and collaboration.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2024

The seamless nature of digital commerce has inspired consumers to expect more from the payment experience everywhere they shop — online, in-store and even via social channels. Customers today expect to be able to shop where and when they want and use the payment method they want.” more compared to their previous buying levels.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As economic pressures and living costs surge, more people than ever are considering using point-of-service (POS) finance — such as buy now, pay later and installment loans — to manage their cashflow. It’s clear that there is a consumer-driven need for more flexible finance and smarter buying power. .

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

That inherent distaste for the transaction phase is one reason payment companies are so eager to expand into other parts of the shopper journey. Embedded finance has become big business: McKinsey estimated that the sector reached $20 billion in revenue in the U.S. Denise Leonhard, VP and GM, Venmo.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Same goes for the services Alibaba is building to stay competitive: financing solutions, fulfillment services, AI tools to make the process of using the platform easier, localized warehousing to speed up delivery. Sounds familiar, right? That’s because Amazon, and now Walmart, have all done the same.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Amazon is offering its merchants a new financing option that gives marketplace sellers access to funds in the form of a cash advance on future sales. Perhaps most importantly, payments are only required during periods when a seller has made sales. Merchant Cash Advance is now available to some U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2022

The good news is that since its global popularization in 2020, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) has become a real game-changer for merchants looking to boost their business. For shoppers, BNPL is a seamless payment method that helps break up their purchases into several installments, bringing more cash flow and budgeting flexibility.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

Pay Later — which will let users split purchases into four payments spread over six weeks with no interest and no fees — is now available for some randomly selected Apple Wallet users in the U.S., Source: Apple Users will be able to access, track, manage and repay their Apple Pay Later loans all within the Apple Wallet.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2024

There’s an inventory sweet spot you’re always looking to achieve — not overstocking, not understocking, and still managing to keep up with changing buyer demands. Learning to master your inventory management processes can net significant bottom-line results in your ecommerce business.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2021

PayPal Holdings Inc’s new “buy now, pay later” offering in Australia will not charge late payment fees, the U.S. payments giant said on Wednesday, as it attempts to edge past main industry rival Afterpay in the country. It, however, lets the merchants set their own minimum spend value.

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365 Retail

MAY 17, 2022

Axerve, Payment Partner to Grow, specialising in creating accessible and frictionless payment solutions for Ecommerce and physical sales, today announces the release of a new white paper, ‘ New technologies and trends in digital payments in 2022 ’. Payment orchestration is a key tool for managing this increased complexity.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2023

The retailer started closing 250 locations earlier this year, pursuant to its plan to exit Chapter 11 with a much smaller footprint, and began the process of shuttering the remaining locations on May 1. The off-price retailer also obtained a commitment from Invictus Global Management to provide $51.5

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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2022

The industry’s latest move: accepting cryptocurrency as a form of payment. In countries where crypto is more regulated, retailers have opted to join forces with licensed payment platforms that are registered with local finance institutions to process transactions. Beyond payment.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 15, 2021

Signifyd has received $205 million in Series E growth equity financing that values the company at $1.34 The funding will be used to expand the Signifyd Commerce Protection Platform and identity graph globally across digital shopping and payments.

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Small Biz Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Amazon recently launched a new financing solution for small business sellers in the form of a merchant cash advance. It works by tying payment on the cash advance to a portion of the seller’s future sales for a fixed capital fee. Amazon Launches Merchant Cash Advance Program for Small Business Sellers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2022

Most buy now, pay later offers are interest- and fee-free, unless customers miss a payment. consumers say they have used a buy now, pay later service, according to a recent study from The Ascent, a Motley Fool service. Consumers regard it as a very transparent, manageable credit product. In fact, 50% of U.S

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It will integrate directly with Square’s solution ecosystem, empowering sellers to organize their finances and manage cash flow from the same platform they use to run their business. Amex also has partnered with musical artist Chlöe Bailey to create a “Shop Small Soundtrack” that TikTok users can add to their content.

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Retail Minded

MARCH 29, 2024

For retailers looking to expand their operations, securing financing is a crucial step to fuel growth. Financing this growth remains a significant challenge for many retailers, from small boutiques to large chains. Financing this growth remains a significant challenge for many retailers, from small boutiques to large chains.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

Speaking to merchants in Australia, it’s clear that the retail landscape is more competitive than ever, intensified by the influx of global e-commerce players and price-conscious consumers. This also allowed it to offer ship-to-customer services to sell items that were available online but not held in store.

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 19, 2022

If you’re also struggling to stay afloat due to piled-up accounts receivable, you can opt for accounts receivable financing to improve cash flow in your company. What Is Accounts Receivable Financing? Accounts receivable financing should not be confused with invoice factoring. How Does Accounts Receivable Financing Work?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2023

The acceptance of cash has started to trend upwards again, but payment technology is helping businesses to deliver consistently better experiences, so what does the future hold? And how can businesses be ready for evolving payment technologies? Consumers, too, preferred to use contactless payments or to shop online.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2020

The issue for so many of these companies might have been that the move to e-tail from retail meant giving up their own brand and an experience their customers love, and joining up with one of these giants as a nameless, faceless merchant amidst a sea of millions.

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365 Retail

MAY 4, 2022

NatWest Group has signed agreements with three payment providers – TrueLayer, GoCardless and Crezco – to offer Variable Recurring Payments (VRP) as a new and convenient payment option for businesses and consumers.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2023

In February, ShopBack, a shopping, rewards and payments platform, partnered with Sunway Pyramid, a mall in Malaysia, on the ShopFiesta event to reward shoppers with promotions and giveaways. According to Eddy Han, general manager of ShopBack Malaysia, 2023 will be a year of growth for the brand. “We

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2021

New customers are a major growth engine for retailers, but many merchants view first-time online shoppers as high-risk due to their unfamiliar behaviour and lack of purchase history. Our data already shows that across the e-commerce landscape, up to 70 per cent of orders that are declined by merchants are made by legitimate customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2022

All those products, all those pages, all that content quickly tests the ability of any team to manage well. Everything was managed manually, but at that glacial pace it worked (more or less). As content increasingly moved online, the cracks in this process became ever more obvious. Enter content governance.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The holidays always tend to put a strain on the piggy bank, but a study from personal finance company Credit Karma found that 43% of consumers are feeling more financially stressed this holiday season, and inflation is the leading cause. Even outside of the holiday season, uptake in buy now, pay later (BNPL) services is exploding in the U.S.,

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

Shopback’s decision to terminate its buy now pay later (BNPL) service in Malaysia and Singapore has sparked discussions and raised pertinent questions about the future of digital payment solutions in the region. For merchants, it means increasing basket sizes, which makes it a win-win situation for all involved,” he opined.

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Small Biz Trends

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A point-of-sale system is one of the best tools for small businesses looking to accept payments. Point-of-sale systems enable business owners to be more agile with their payment processing and forego using the cash drawer. A point of sale (POS) system is used to accept payments, like a cash register. Brilliant POS.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2023

Super apps in Asia are trendy, and with good reason: they gather together a number of essential everyday services onto a single, easy-to-use platform. Sea, for example, provides an integrated suite of e-commerce (through Shopee), digital entertainment and financial services. Financial services accounted for $412.8

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2020

Up until recently, it was rare for someone with a supply chain background to be elevated into the C-suite; the “CSCO” role (before it was invented) often fell under Finance, Procurement, Operations or other business functions. Enter the Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO). Embracing Technology. A CSCO helps organizations balance these needs.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This is broken down to one platform (ChatJD), two industries (retail and finance), and five applications (content generation and information). The ‘Yanxi AI’ platform, which was developed from JD’s early smart customer service chatbot, applies dialogue generation in both customer service and generating marketing content like selling points.

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