Ben Abel

The Growing Challenge of Card-Not-Present Fraud At BAMS, payments are central to everything we do and card-not-present fraud prevention is important to us. That is why we closely track emerging threats across the payments ecosystem. One of the most significant challenges facing merchants today is the rise of card-not-present (CNP) fraud and first-party fraud, sometimes […]

How the Right Apps Can Transform Your BigCommerce Store Many eCommerce merchants rely on BigCommerce apps to improve marketing automation, increase conversions, and enhance the checkout experience. Competition in eCommerce continues to intensify as more brands move online and customer expectations rise. To remain competitive, merchants must go beyond simply launching a store and start […]

Running a successful WordPress website involves much more than simply publishing blog posts. Businesses must manage social media promotion, email marketing, content organization, and internal notifications. Handling these tasks manually can quickly become overwhelming. One effective solution is to automate WordPress with Zapier, a powerful automation platform that connects WordPress with thousands of other applications. […]

Magento was one of the oldest players in the ecommerce space, building a reputation as an extremely capable, reliable, and secure sales platform. Today, Magento has been rolled into Adobe Commerce, a one-stop ecommerce solution from the same company that powers creativity across countless industries. Adobe Commerce offers all the same benefits that made Magento […]

Cost-Effective Does Not Simply Mean the Lowest Gateway Fee A payment gateway is one of the core pieces of technology businesses use to accept electronic payments. For an eCommerce merchant, the gateway connects checkout with the broader payment processing environment. Depending on the platform, it may also support recurring billing, customer payment profiles, fraud controls, […]

Ecommerce has become an increasingly important part of consumers’ lives, especially in the wake of the global pandemic, which saw a decade’s worth of ecommerce adoption occur in just a few months. With selling online now a more important part of doing business than ever, many merchants are quickly scrambling to modernize websites or get […]