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Invoicing: Move beyond “the check is in the mail”

Digital payment methods are the norm in eCommerce business models. But what if the products or services you offer require exploration and negotiation? Tailoring or packaging? How can businesses that don’t have an eCommerce site still benefit from the speed, simplicity, and security of digital payments?

October 01, 2020

5 min

Seamless payments, ironclad security: Get the best of both

For eCommerce developers, payments present some interesting challenges.How do you keep your customers’ sensitive payment card data secure through the entire transaction process? How do you manage the risks of storing payment information on your own systems—where one data breach could cause serious damage to your business? ;

October 01, 2020

5 min

Fraud management: The realities of inaction

So, you’ve launched your business, you’ve set up digital payments, and orders start streaming in. Then, out of the blue, your bank sends you a chargeback notice about a fraudulent transaction. What can you do? You don’t know who the culprit is, and now your honest, hard-working business has to absorb the cost and the responsibility.

September 14, 2020

4 min

Why do small businesses need fraud management?

The increased pace of digital transformation presents businesses with opportunities to reach a larger audience without geographical limitation. But the more we adopt these connected ways of working, the more opportunities we present to fraudsters—who can also learn and grow in line with new technological advancements and changing consumer behaviors.

August 31, 2020

6 min

COVID fraud trends: Has your machine learning caught up?

Although machine learning (ML) relies on complex statistical methods and high-power computing, it’s essentially a very simple concept. By identifying and examining statistically high-and low-risk combinations of transaction data, machine learning software can learn to accurately predict which orders are fraudulent.

August 11, 2020

8 min

Identifying and preventing account takeover and loyalty fraud

In the previous blog posts in this series, we discussed account takeover attacks and loyalty fraud, and the impact they can have on a business and its customers. We also acknowledged that identifying and preventing these attacks can be challenging—largely because fraudsters are logging in to customers' accounts using legitimate credentials stolen elsewhere.

July 16, 2020

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Loyalty fraud: How real is the threat?

In the previous blog post in this series, we discussed how fraudsters exploit stolen credentials to take over customer accounts, and looked at the impact such attacks can have on a business and its customers. Naturally, fraudsters who successfully take over accounts will take anything in them that has immediate or resale value—and that includes loyalty points and rewards.

July 14, 2020

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Understanding account takeover and its impacts

Like many other online businesses, you probably encourage—or even require—customers to set up accounts when they shop with you. The main advantage for customers, of course, is a smoother checkout experience on any device, with no need to re-enter shipping and payment details each time they shop. And with the insight you gain into customers' purchase histories, you can develop deeper relationships and drive additional sales with personalized communications and promotions.

July 10, 2020

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Cybersource Developer Center: Let’s build better together

Don’t let constraints stand in the way of your big ideas When it comes to commerce and payment development, we enable you to innovate and meet consumer demands. We’ve made it super easy to try your first API call using our Developer Center. Get up to speed fast on our APIs with a true hands-on, sandbox experience. You’ll find sample code available for every API request in six of the most popular development languages.

June 29, 2020

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