Across the Board

Blog on e-business and online payments.

PayLane becomes a certified American Express partner

American Express CardWe’re constantly going global and reaching more and more markets. Becoming a certified partner with American Express is our latest step to become a worldwide payment processor.

What does it mean for our merchants?

Thanks to direct integration of both companies’ systems, it is possible to process payments without other parties’ involvement. This means that PayLane clients may now expect lower fees and simpler account opening procedures.

Merchants who want to accept payments with AmEx cards do not need to apply for a merchant account with another acquiring bank. Apart from a simpler process of opening an account, PayLane clients now pay less for processing payments. Direct collaboration between PayLane and American Express eliminates any additional fees charged by acquiring banks. Could this be any better? :)

Partnering up with AmEx is another step of creating PayLane’s offer dedicated to e-businesses that want to operate globally.Geographical boundaries are no barrier for us any more. Apart from enriching the list of available payment methods, we implements also other services and simplifies the already offered solutions. That is why PayLane can offer its clients to reach more markets from all over the world and still works on reducing fees and simplifying all necessary procedures.

Do you need to integrate with AmEx? Don’t wait, simply contact our sales department right away! :)

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Online shopping around the world

Online shopping around the world

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Integrating with a payment gateway via API

Coding...How to seamlessly integrate with a payment gateway using API? What are the common mistakes made in the process of designing? How to design transactions’ flow in the system? How much can it cost you? Do you need still a test gateway after integration?

So many questions, yet all answers can be found in this tutorial. Awesome, right?

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Jeff Bezos on brands and reputation

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

— Jeff Bezos

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Visa Credit Card and LCD

Visa CodeSure

Visa Europe offers a credit card that comes with its own 48×8 pixel LCD panel on the back. That would be located just above the signature of the cardholder. The solution, called CodeSure Matrix Display Card, has been invented to increase security of credit cards, which can be used e.g. in online shopping.

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About Blizzard Entertainment and PayPal

Blizzard EntertainmentBlizzard Entertainment, producer of epic game series such as Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft and owner of biggest online gaming service Battle.net is partner with PayPal. PayPal will be added as a payment method on Battle.net platform and will be payment service partner for the auction house in upcoming Diablo III. I think that was a natural course of things because, according to PayPal, over 70% of gamers are their clients.

This “news” is not that new, but it is worth mentioning, since Blizzard recently announced new Battle.net feature called Balance.

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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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Credit Cards – creative ways to use your expired plastic

Credit Card RainbowCredit cards can be pretty, there’s no arguing about that. They can also become the base for a work of art, as was demonstrated by the Graphic Design Museum in Breda (the Netherlands), in 2009. The museum ordered a collage created out of different types of credit cards, gift cards and discount cards from all over the world.

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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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Credit Cards In Numbers

Credit cards in numbers - infographic

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