Payments Powering Platforms Tracker news and trends

TRENDING: BigCommerce On How Platforms Solve Big eCommerce Payment Complexities
Platform Payments // November 13, 2018

When consumers make a purchase online or through a mobile app, they expect the process to be simple and secure. However, they also expect to be able to pay using the method of their choosing, and in their local currency. That puts pressure on eTailers...

TRENDING: Recreational Athletics’ Payments-Powered Assist
Platform Payments // October 10, 2018

What’s the key to a great customer experience? For a growing group of online and mobile platforms, the answer lies in the pursuit of seamless payments. In the latest Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™, PYMNTS explores the latest efforts from industry giants and platform powerhouses around...

How HomeAway Uses Real-Time Data To Stay ‘Locally Relevant’
Platform Payments // September 17, 2018

Consumers in China prefer mobile payments; Germans would rather use debit cards — and that’s just the beginning. HomeAway’s GM of Commerce Mike Sutter tells PYMNTS that staying competitive means giving consumers payment options that they want to use, not just what HomeAway accepts. In...

NEW REPORT: HomeAway’s Payments Secret Sauce
Platform Payments // September 14, 2018

Travel payments have long posed a challenge to airlines and hotels in the space. Payments are often expensive to process and come with a host of complexities, ranging from currency conversion to national and international regulatory compliance, to seemingly everything in between. However, the rewards...

Interviews & Exclusives
TRENDING: Recreational Athletics’ Payments-Powered Assist

October 10, 2018
What’s the key to a great customer experience? For a growing group of online and mobile platforms, the answer lies in the pursuit of seamless payments. In the latest Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™, PYMNTS explores the latest efforts from industry giants and platform powerhouses around the space to improve their payment experiences and make their […]

NEW REPORT: Speeding And Securing Online Nonprofit Fundraising

July 11, 2018
In the push to make payments faster, platform and solutions providers are ratcheting up their payments processing infrastructure with new technologies and innovations. But in the rush to get faster,...

NEW REPORT: Fiverr Finds Future Outside The Gig Bargain Bin

July 11, 2017
Searching for a different kind of lodging or the perfectly priced graphic designer to help give a startup the right look? These days, the best place to look may just...

NEW REPORT: How Airbnb Does Payments

June 16, 2017
It can be a long road from startup to unicorn, with more than a few speed bumps on the way. But when the road to business empire is paved with...

Quick Reads
Taking Fundraising Social, Successfully

February 27, 2017
With crowdfunding campaigns teeming across social media, how can organizations help their campaigns cut through the noise? For the latest Payments Powering Platform Tracker™, PYMNTS caught up with Daryl Hatton, founder and CEO of the crowdfunding platform FundRazr, to discuss the state of social media crowdfunding. You’ll find that, plus the latest news and a directory of the biggest players in the space, inside the latest Tracker.