E-commerce has become quite popular with the advent of online stores and shopping carts. It’s possible to manage your inventory listed on a number of e-commerce websites manually or automatically, and we’re going to delve into which one will most likely work better for your company. (more…)
Three things make mobile payment processing possible: a mobile payment method, such as an e-wallet or a credit card, a mobile payment gateway (for processing the payment, and hardware that connects the payment method with the gateway, such as a smartphone or a point-of-sale (POS) scanner.
Mobile payment processing operates on five basic models: mobile wallets, card-based payments, carrier billing, POS contactless payments that use Near Field Communication (NFC), and payer/payee direct account transfers. Add them together, and you have a form of payment processing that is evolving, but has already made a significant impact on the world.
We often examine the impact microcosmically, such as studying how mobile payment affects a particular industry or by spotlighting a facet of mobile commerce that concerns consumers. To appreciate its true importance, it’s also essential to look at mobile payment from a macro perspective. When we do, we see it has three sweeping effects that make it important to life as we know it. (more…)
If you’re using QuickBooks, you probably already have a QuickBooks Payments account for taking credit cards. Fishbowl integrates seamlessly with this merchant service or payment gateway, so you can accept payments from customers right through the Fishbowl interface in its Payment Gateway module.
Here are the main features of this integration: (more…)
If you sell products online, you’ve probably heard of a merchant service provider called Authorize.Net. Fishbowl has a built-in connection for Authorize.Net’s popular payment gateway, so you can be up and running and taking credit card payments in minutes. This is a useful integration that many companies need to seal the deal.
Here’s how this integration works: (more…)
