Across the Board

Blog on e-business and online payments.

Experienced executive, people-oriented leader, doer, entrepreneur. CEO at PayLane. Business educator on KarolZielinski.com. Also on Twitter.

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Subscription Cancellation

The title sends shivers down your spine, doesn’t it?

If you are an internet merchant, that is.

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How to Use Subscriptions (Recurring Payments) in Your Business

A subscription (recurring payments) in a SaaS based company?

Boy oh boy. Simply irreplaceable thing. Businesses based on these types of services breathe subs like air!

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11 Ways to Convince a Prospective Customer to Try out Your Service

The amount of freebies on the Internet got quite overwhelming.

Before a purchase is made, and a customer entrusts our service with their hard-earned money, they have the option to try out the product. It has become a standard nowadays.

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10 Steps to Implement Credit Card Payments (via Secure Form)

In one of the last posts, I have told you in a nutshell how to integrate your e-commerce site with a payment provider via API. Today we’ll concentrate on how to do the same thing using a different approach: Secure Form. It’s an easy and convenient method, and it’s often chosen by smaller shops and Software as a Service businesses.

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Across the ocean. We’re going to…

We’re building PayLane for about 6 years already. And since the very first day, we have always thought about PayLane as a global company.

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Implementation of Credit Card Payments for Your SaaS Business (via API)

Implementing Credit Card payments is not as tough a task as it may seem at a first glance.

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33 Payment Forms of The Most Popular SaaS Companies in the World

It’s not all about the looks. It’s what inside that counts.

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10 Tools and Services Essential for Your SaaS

No man is an island, so they say.

It’s impossible for any online business, let alone one with software as a service business model, to exist without various services and tools. Some of the popular ones are new. Some are with us for decades and became a pure necessity (e.g. grandma Domain and grandpa Hosting.)

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SEPA Explained: SEPA Direct Debit vs SEPA Wire Transfer

There are two payment protocols: SEPA SCT (SEPA Credit Transfer) and SEPA SDD (SEPA Direct Debit). The latter in two variations: Core and B2B. They differ. Precisely, how?

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Which Online Payment Methods Allow Recurring Billings?

Automatic recurring payment is – not only in my opinion – one of the best features of online payments. (Marketers like to use the term holy grail of SaaS.) It is a powerful tool indeed – both for the clients and the merchants.

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