Canadians expect dynamic digital payment solutions and experiences
How Interac is adapting to deliver exceptional, innovative experiences for your customer We have truly entered an age of digital transformation. We are, increasingly, a digitally connected people engaging in ever more sophisticated tasks through technology—and this will only continue to escalate. This wave of technological change squarely impacts payments …
Data-driven e-commerce
Using Google Analytics to learn about and market to your customers Data has always been a part of online marketing and the data-first model should be no stranger to online marketers. Data-first means instead of running campaigns or strategies and then looking at the data to determine success or not, …
Never miss out on a sale
Businesses large and small never want to miss out on a sale. In 2009, Jim McKelvey was operating a glass-blowing business and lost out on a sale because he was unable to accept credit cards. You may know the story: out of that experience McKelvey and Jack Dorsey founded Square, …
Sellers on Amazon.ca are thriving, achieving a record-setting $1B in sales in 2016
FBA sales on Amazon.ca increase 100% over Black Friday and Cyber Monday Fulfillment by Amazon delivered more than two billion items for sellers worldwide in 2016 FBA items shipped worldwide grew more than 50% during the holiday season Thousands of sellers worldwide joined the Seller Fulfilled Prime program SEATTLE — Amazon today …
Five tips for a successful e-commerce integration
To succeed with e-commerce at any scale you need to connect your accounting, ERP, POS or warehouse systems to your e-commerce software. While managing a handful of orders a day manually might be slightly inconvenient, managing 50 or 100 is a big challenge and 1,000+ is impossible. There are …
The mobile wallet opens up opportunities for marketers
Marketers leveraging mobile wallet to connect with customers in real-time In today’s always-connected world, smartphones are literally everywhere—including in our hands, on our bedside tables and at our side when we’re shopping. So are opportunities for marketers who want to engage their customers by delivering relevant, customized, location-aware content …
U.S. customers eager to buy online from Canada
One retailer details how U.S. purchases have played a big role in the company’s success Fred Pritchard tapped a small vein of online gold a few years back when the company he works for, Golda’s Kitchen, stocked a cooking accessory popularized by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. U.S. shoppers were clamoring …
Mobile drives over a third of all email-generated revenue for the first time
New Yes Lifecycle Marketing data reveals the gap between mobile and desktop engagement, conversions is shrinking rapidly CHICAGO — For the first time, mobile accounted for a third of all email-driven revenue in Q3 2016, a milestone in the shrinking gap between desktop and mobile, according to data from Yes Lifecycle …
Blackbaud speeds the pace of giving with Apple Pay
Charleston, S.C. — Blackbaud, Inc., the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good, announced today it has added Apple Pay to Blackbaud Merchant Services so its nonprofit customers can offer donors an easy, secure and private option for digital checkout, just in time for holiday giving. This news comes in …
Honk offers simpler, more secure way to pay with Masterpass
TORONTO, ON — Honk, North America’s fastest and most convenient way to find and pay for parking, has partnered with Mastercard to let Honk users pay more easily with Masterpass. Masterpass is a global digital payment service that simplifies online and in-app payments on connected devices. It stores all payment …