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PriceGrabber introduces Visa debit gift card

PriceGrabber.com, a comparison shopping site, is getting into financial services as a way to increase customer service and boost sales at thousands of participating merchants. It will offer a new Visa debit gift card later this week.

Posted 11/12/2003Paul DemeryPost a comment

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A Nice, Safe ATM/Debit Card Deal

Star Systems Inc., Maitland, Fla., says it will join NYCE Corp., Woodcliff Lake, N.J., in offering SafeDebit to 3,400 STAR member financial institutions, representing 80 million ATM/debit cardholders. The SafeDebit payment solution will allow consumers to use their ATM/debit card to make secure, real-time Internet purchases. Scheduled to launch in second-quarter 2000, SafeDebit uses the infrastructure of regional ATM networks, including NYCE and...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

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Beenz.com Spills The Debit Card

In an industry first, MasterCard International and New York-based beenz.com, an online loyalty rewards provider, are launching reloadable debit cards that will allow enrolled consumers to convert the so-called beenz credits they earn into dollars, put them on the card and use the money in the virtual or real world. For customers choosing to convert their beenz, up until now good only with participating online traders, 1,000 beenz will equal $5....

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

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Does Online Debit Threaten Credit Growth?

While Maestro International, which is co-owned by MasterCard International and its European affiliate Europay, is working to create global interoperability of online Maestro debit transactions on the Internet, Visa International says in a prepared statement that it is exploring several undisclosed authentication concepts for both debit and credit Internet transactions. And Visa says U.S. regional network efforts to develop debit solutions are not...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

Innovonics Shareholders OK Online Deal

Shareholders of Innovonics Inc. recently approved a proposed merger with MerchantOnline.com Inc., a credit and debit card processor for Internet merchants. Phoenix, Ariz.-based Innovonics' PC Pay card swipe system, which connects to individuals' home computers, encrypts debit and credit card information, eliminating the need to punch in card numbers using a keyboard when shopping on the Internet. Planned merger terms call for Boca Raton,...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

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Improved Online Sales Not Guaranteed

Some 55% of Internet users surveyed this fall plan to shop online for gifts this holiday season, according to (www.visa.com) Visa U.S.A., a 9% increase over last year. When asked to give the form of payment they will use, 88% said credit cards and 6.3% said debit cards. At the same time, when asked if they planned to use a debit card online this season, 33.4% said yes. Online shoppers will buy books (45%), toys (41%), music (39%), clothes (35%),...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

Survey: Online Payments

With debit card fees about to drop, some e-retailers adjust their payment strategies.

Posted 08/31/2011Thad RueterPost a comment

New approach to loyalty: click-to-shop gift cards

The San Diego Chargers and ShopUSN.com are the first to offer a new digital gift card from imX Solutions that consumers insert into their computers, then click images to shop online. The Chargers organization is using the card in a loyalty program and expects to see a sales boost of 10-12%.

Posted 09/28/2006Internet RetailerPost a comment

SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: E-Payments: Curing the Achilles Heel of the Web

Like the reporting on an ongoing war, the news about Internet fraud is becoming more and more just part of the background noise of doing business on the Internet. Only major scams make the front page these days. But online fraud is a continuing threat to the online retailing industry and one that retailers need to pay closer attention to. 60% of online merchants report fraud rates higher than 1%, with an average of 1.7%; offline fraud is 0.07% of...

Posted 02/04/2004Internet RetailerPost a comment