Across the Board

Blog on e-business and online payments.

Mr. Banks is actually a fictional character, but does some real work. This makes him PayLane's fictional employee of the year :)

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Card payments – glossary

If you are an online payments newbie, no doubt you’re getting lost in all the new expressions, phrases and definitions. That’s why we come to your rescue with this 3-part introduction to payments safety. Today, we set off with CVV2.

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PayLane is expanding… again!

Meet the latest additional to the PayLane team – Malgo Suleta-Sildatke!

PayLane Gosia is joining our team as the new Compliance Specialist.

Her experience in a nutshell: analyst, information architect and a translator.
In other words: she processes data, analyses, organises it  and creates algorithms. Both in Polish and English.

She loves Hemingway novels, Guy Ritchie films and industrial design. Before bed she takes one mandatory episode of the ITCrowd, The Office or the Big Bang. When up for a good film, she’d watch it at a movie club, and if volleyball – only on the beach.

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History of Credit Cards

Would you believe it, if we told you that the first credit card was issued in the…1950s? Or that already in the 20s, department stores offered debit cards to their clients?

Have a look at this great infographic made by CreditDonkey.com to find out more fun facts about payments in the past.

For more such gems, make sure to book our Pinterest page. And if you want to pin one of our blog entries onto Pinterest, just click on the Pin It button on the left side of each page.

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PayLane 404 and 500 pages

Like any self-respecting company, we have decided to make new custom 404 and 500 error pages.
You know, the ones you see when you misspell the URL or when we’re busy fixing things?
Let us know what you think of our latest creation! :)

The screenshots below illustrate the general idea, but it’s best to check both pages live in action! Here are the links:

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Meet The Latest Additions To Our PayLane Team!

If you remember our anniversary infographic, you probably know that PayLane is expanding. In the past month, our team was joined by three new members-Aga, Maciek and Zosia.

Have a look at who we are and what we do…

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What Valentine’s Day looks like for retailers

Valentinesday infographic

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Benjamin Franklin on… productivity

Well done is better than well said.

— Benjamin Franklin

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Third place for blog.paylane.com

Company Blog of the Year 2001, Category: Young BlogWe are proud to announce that Across the Board took 3rd place in the Best Company Blog of the Year 2011 competition, where we started in the Young Blog category.

The competition was organized by a blog about running corporate blogs.

This distinction confirms that it’s possible to write about online payments, credit cards and other related subjects in an interesting way. We also feel encouraged not only to keep our blog on its course, but to seek for new ideas that will help us repeat the success next year.

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Merry Christmas!

We’re more than happy to have you with us, for there is nothing more important for blog writers than to know there are people who read and appreciate their posts. However, we wish you to take a little break for the next few days.
Celebrate this joyful time of the year with your closest ones and forget about the everyday rush for a moment. Enjoy some magical moments together and enter the new year in high spirits.

To show you that we really mean it, we promise not to post anything for the next few days, so you don’t feel tempted :)

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How Credit Cards Are Made

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