Last year, the amount of goods and services sold online in the UK rose by another 6.7%. Real-world, physical stores have been experiencing significant difficulties in recent years because of rises in wages and rates and the poor performance of the pound. Perhaps the biggest reason for the decline in High Street and boutique retail, […]

In November 2006, internet sales accounted for just 2.6% of all retail sales in the UK. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, that had risen to 21.4% in the preceding Christmas period. People have lost their fear of ordering over the internet and, in response, the number of new online payment systems providers has […]

It’s a well-known fact that people spend money online and in retail stores when they use a credit or a debit card. Because physical cash is not exchanged between a retailer and their customer, it seems that, somehow, we’re absolved of the financial pain from the customer of making payment. And if the experience of […]

Paymentsense are one of the world’s fastest growing merchant services providers and they’ve recently passed the 30,000 customer benchmark here in the UK. Merchant services providers are the companies which allow your business to take credit and debit card payments from customers online, in person, and over the phone. This is a hugely competitive sector […]

With over 40,000 UK customers and a team of 90 local payment consultants, Payzone’s merchant account services are very much focused on the British small-to-medium-sized business market. They’re about to go through a major rebranding exercise but, at time of writing, they are still offering payment solutions to business under their own brand. In this […]

Worldpay are one of the world’s largest card payment processing companies working with hundreds of thousands of businesses in dozens of countries around the world. As opposed to other newer entrants in the market, they have the history, the reach, the technology, and the infrastructure to provide virtually any type of payment processing service that […]

Nowadays, we all expect to be able to pay for goods and services by credit or debit card, no matter how small the sum. Small businesses have long since been aware of the need to cater to their customer’s needs and keep up with their expectations – and now they expect to be able to […]

Most of us have shopped online at some point in our lives. Probably a similar number of us, particularly from older generations, have seen something they liked in a newspaper or a catalogue and phoned up to order it. If you want your company to able to take credit and debit card payments online or […]

Despite our growing love for and dependence on online shopping and the convenience of a life lived digitally, people still love to interact, browse and shop in the real world. No matter how convenient and affordable internet shopping is, the experience of going into a shop can simply not be duplicated on an app or […]

Sometimes it’s easier, when a customer is on the phone with you, to take their payment there and then. Alternatively, a customer may be a member of an older generation and they might not want to enter their details onto a website. If your customers’ cheques always seem to get lost in the post, wouldn’t […]

By now, it’s highly likely you will have seen the new style of card payment machines and POS systems in shops – they’re especially popular in independent businesses. Debit and credit card transactions are now our preferred method of payment as consumers. We expect to be able to pay for anything on our card, whether […]

Have you seen those tiny little credit and debit card terminals in your local coffee shop? You might even have been presented with one by a taxi driver or a mobile hairdresser? They’re little contactless payment processors and one of the biggest suppliers of them in the UK is SumUp. The way we pay for […]

For us, there are two main reasons why every small business should be using a card reader to take payments from clients. And they are: customers spend up to 100% more when they use a card compared to when they use cash, and that feeling of going into a retail premises, picking out what you […]