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Convert European shoppers into paying customersThe UK has the most amount of people paying for goods and services online then any other EU country. However only 60% of all shoppers use their credit and debit card to pay with. This means that a 40% increase is achievable by offering alternative payment options.How to convert the 40%So if your customers can not or will not use a debit or credit

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Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Youtube, Flickr - they are all extremely useful marketing tools for your business... and they don't cost a bean!Below are the main reason why you should choose social media:It's FREEImproves brand reputationIt's viralIncreases leads and trafficYou can connect with your audienceBecome interactive easilyUnlimited accessBring attention to your services or

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This year, as you gear up for the festive season, stop for a while and consider an aspect of your business you may have neglected.While you're busy ordering company Christmas cards to send to clients, dressing your shop window or just blocking out a day to recover from the Christmas party, spare a guilty thought for that carefully-crafted website you had built last year.When you first got a

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From 2010 PCI DSS became compulsory for processing card paymentsPCI Compliance is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard mandated by the card schemes for the protection of cardholders and transaction details. If you do not comply with the standard you could face substantial fines imposed by card schemes. You could even find yourself being permanently barred from using card acceptance

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Start accepting Online Payments via a mobile / smartphoneMobile phone payments provide your customers with the ability to pay for goods and services using their mobile phone / smartphone deviceSpending on mobile devices is expected to increase by 50% in the next 5 years"Seattle-based coffee chain Starbucks is taking its mobile payments plan nationwide. The companyis now expanding the program to

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European e-commerce is predicted to reach €263 billion by 2011. The reason? Online retail is seeing a dramatic increase in both its consumer base and average spend per customer. From 2006 to 2007, online retail in Europe experienced a year-on-year increase in sales of 58%. And that number is expected to continue growing as late-adopters join the online shopping ranks.No wonder High Street

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ONE-TENTH OF THE WORLD’S EVER-GROWING INTERNET POPULATION SHOPS ONLINE, representing a staggering 627 million people. And when it comes to payment, online shoppers are clear: 59% of internet consumers surveyed use credit cards as their preferred payment method. Accepted virtually everywhere, credit cards offer online shoppers the ultimate convenience.If you want to do business online, accepting

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When a shopper uses a credit card in person the proper checks are carried out at the point of sale (for example, chip and PIN), and the card scheme rules ordinarily require the issuer to bear any losses arisen. With online transactions, however, the liability for such a loss lies with you, because you do not have written evidence that the cardholder used the card and received the goods or

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Convert more shoppers into paying customersThe United Kingdom has one of the highest consumer credit card adoption rates for online payments, but even then only 60% of consumers choose to use their credit or debit card to transact online. That means you could potentially increase your target audience by 40% and drive online sales simply by offering an alternative to cards on your site. And the

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What is involved in getting an internet merchant account?Traditionally, to be allowed to accept credit cards you must be granted Merchant Status by a major bank and obtain a Merchant ID from them.All major high street banks have what is known as an acquiring bank e.g. NatWest has 'Streamline', LloydsTSB has 'Cardnet', Barclays has 'Barclays Merchant Services', HSBC has 'HSBC Merchant Services'

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Well it's been far to long since Web Merchant last did a blog. Something we are trying hard to rectify. Not always easy as both Twitter and FB also need doing. Not to mention the normal running of the business. However as I said, this is going to change...So, what has been happening in the WM world? Quite a lot actually. We have now teamed up with several new banks to bring customers not only a

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With the increase of mobile internet websites and the technology being so much better (goodbye to the bad old WAP days) we have decided to build a version of our website for mobile phone devices. I'm glad to report it works :)

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.Can't believe it's April since we last posted. Where does the time fly?!Well things have progressed nicely here. We have formed several new relationships and are now seeking a long term partner for our offline arm. Going from online into offline seems the next sensible step.Once we have finalised the deal we will be back with further information. Watch this space...

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.Now that the business talk is out of the way, what is the average week at Web Merchant Services like?...Well it starts with coming in fairly early. Normally about 8am before the phones are switched on and all the organised mayhem begins. This time allows us to read and asses all the emails we receive, normally around 80+ . Because we can help people from around the globe we get emails from all

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In the last 12 years we have helped hundreds of companies with their online business and online payment requirements!We can help companies big and small and from most sectors with their eCommerce, web design and payment services. We make it easy to accept credit or debit cards online, either over the internet, on your website, or over the phone using a virtual terminal (MOTO). We can even help

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.Well this is it, our first ever blog. As we've been in the internet industry for over 12 years and in that time have steered clear of blogs, twitting etc. we thought maybe we should at least see what all the fuss is about.So what to talk about... obviously the main reason is to update people on our business and how things are going. "Which business?" I hear you ask! - http://

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