Clearent Connects

On this week’s Clearent Connects, Mandy speaks with Jim Fink from Rapid Finance about supporting small and mid-sized businesses during COVID, the challenges they face with funding, and how taking advantage of the CARES act has helped a number of companies stay solvent in 2020.

Clearent Connects is the in-house podcast for Clearent, your partner for payments. Each week, we’ll help unravel some of the mystery of what happens when a customer puts their card into a terminal or clicks “Buy Now” online. Featuring interviews with technology experts and stories from small business owners, we’re here to share tips and strategies on keeping your business growing with the changing technology and times.

On this week’s episode, we chat with Natalia Leonardis from CardFlight about their SwipeSimple platform, which we just integrated into our Core Plus technology stack. This platform allows for payments through traditional terminals, as well as mobile solutions and virtual terminals, and adds key features like invoicing and item catalogs. Learn how this technology can help you thrive in today’s current environment, and to enable merchants to pivot to a mobile/curbside solution.

On this episode of Connects, we sat down with Dan Battista, CEO of Factor4, to explore the ways that gift cards can help small businesses increase loyalty with their best patrons, attract new customers and increase cash flow.

Clearent Connects is the in-house podcast for Clearent, your partner for payments. Each week, we’ll help unravel some of the mystery of what happens when a customer puts their card into a terminal or clicks “Buy Now” online. Featuring interviews with technology experts and stories from small business owners, we’re here to share tips and strategies on keeping your business growing with the changing technology and times.

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This week on Connects, we look at the actionable ways small businesses can develop a trusted online customer experience and thrive in 2020 with comprehensive business management software and integrated payments.

This week on Clearent Connects, we explore why Apple is getting into the ID business, what it’ll take to digitize your entire wallet, and how it could impact business owners.

Clearent Connects is the in-house podcast for Clearent, your partner for payments. Each week, we’ll help unravel some of the mystery of what happens when a customer puts their card into a terminal or clicks “Buy Now” online. Featuring interviews with technology experts and stories from small business owners, we’re here to share tips and strategies on keeping your business growing with the changing technology and times.

Epic, the publisher of Fortnite (the most popular game in the app store), is starting to fight against what they claim as unfair pricing policies in Apple’s app store. Apple just called their bluff by removing their apps. We dive deep into this conflict, and what impacts it could have on the software and app industry in this week’s Clearent Connects.

On this episode of Connects, Clearent’s own Phil Ricci and Mandy Dunfee discuss the recent overwhelming popularity of the ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ service and if small businesses should look to adopt this strategy now or wait until later to get on board.

Update episode this week! We’ll touch on some of our past episodes, and bring new info on how the cost-cutting measures with the U.S. Postal services could affect small businesses going forward, and where we currently stand on the stimulus situation.

COVID has delayed the second Payment Services Directive, or PSD2, in Europe, allowing card and payment providers to meet new authentication required standards by December 31, 2020. While this effects Euro cardholders by ensuring payments are performed with multi-factor authentication, this also has a reaching effect in the US as we have now become an easier target for fraud and illegal activities. We’re taking a look this week at the requirements of PSD2, and how the U.S. can protect itself or come up with similar legislation.

Clearent Connects is the in-house podcast for Clearent, your partner for payments. Each week, we’ll help unravel some of the mystery of what happens when a customer puts their card into a terminal or clicks “Buy Now” online. Featuring interviews with technology experts and stories from small business owners, we’re here to share tips and strategies on keeping your business growing with the changing technology and times. This information does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal advice and is provided for informational purposes only. Contact your attorney to obtain advice with respect to any particular legal matter.

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In this week's episode of Clearent Connects, we discuss the recent major data breach events and how small businesses are more effected now than at any other time.