Ecommerce merchants may need to get in tune with the latest vocabulary updates from Oxford Dictionaries if they want to speak the lingo with their customers. In August 2013, Oxford Dictionaries Online added a wide range of new words and senses including phablet, selfie, twerking and digital detox. With the internet evolving at a fast
Last week, South Africa’s payCity stopped accepting online credit card payments for its SMS prepaid electricity service for Cape Town customers. The suspension of services occurred without notice too many customers unless they had been to the payCity website to see the notice, leaving them in the dark. Customers, when trying to purchase using the sms
SecureBuy has announced a critical upgrade to their complete end to end eCommerce and Mobile payment fraud solution that allows merchants to process orders from blacklists with all reward and no risk. Blacklisting is a very common practice in eCommerce where a merchant compiles a list of untrusted customers by name, zip code, IP address,
The eCommerce division of WorldPay, a global leader in payment processing, risk and alternative payments, has today announced significant growth across all product groups with transaction volumes up 45% compared to the first half of 2012. In the first half of 2013, over 257 million gateway transactions were processed. Online transactions reached a record rate
A major storm looks set to rock the South African online scene as some of the country’s largest e-commerce players square up against its biggest banking powers over online fraud detection. The heads of companies including Groupon South Africa, Takealot and uAfrica have formed an alliance expressing opposition to a new regulation which forces them
SecureBuy, a provider of payment fraud prevention technology announced today that it has released SecureBuy 2.0 for Call Centers. As eCommerce payment transactions become more secure, call center security must become more sophisticated to foil internal theft, and the more sophisticated external fraudster. Call Center payment fraud is at an all-time high, and whether it’s
The South African eCommerce Conference will be held on 11 September 2013 at the Sandton Convention Centre and promises to be an educational and inspiring event focussing on all aspects of eCommerce in relation to the local market. uAfrica.com has secured a phenomenal line up of speakers from the likes of Google, Bidorbuy, Mxit, Aramex,
E-commerce in Africa has grown dramatically over the past year, says Robin Philip of payment services provider PayGate, and is now in a position to support the massive consumer boom that’s happening across the continent. “A year ago we said e-commerce in Africa wasn’t ready for take-off yet, largely because there weren’t enough acquiring banks
MasterCard Worldwide is reaching out to US merchants and developers with Simplify Commerce™, a new product that makes it easy to accept e-commerce and mobile commerce payments, regardless of payment brand, in a matter of minutes. Merchants, especially those managing smaller businesses, do not always have the resources readily available to help them set up
evriPay, the African based merchant account provider, announced that it’s eCommerce services are now available to online merchants in Kenya. evriPay will allow Kenyan online merchants to accept Visa and MasterCard payments from anywhere in the world on their websites. Every transaction will require 3D Secure authentication and then also be vetted by the CyberSource Fraud Management
