Darius Ghassemian

Stripe vs PayPal

Stripe and PayPal are currently the most well-known online payment gateways in the eCommerce market. This article will cover the differences and similarities between Stripe vs. PayPal so you make a well-informed decision for your business.

Global Payment Processing

The global payment process begins when a payment is made to a supplier, vendor, publisher, or other affiliates whose bank account is outside of the country in which your business operates. Traditionally, global payments processing requires inputting data into multiple bank portals and are accompanied with expensive fees and costly overhead. When processing global payments to a supplier in a foreign currency, you may also endure heavy conversion fees if you don’t partner with a cost-friendly global payments processor.

Batch Payment Processing

Is real-time processing or batch payment processing better for your business? There are two main areas that should guide your decision. The first is whether or not you’ll need to make adjustments to transactions after sales. As with any other business decision, you’ll also want to compare the associated costs.

PayPal International Fees

For international transfers and business transactions, there are transfer fees and as well as merchant fees for goods and services. While there isn’t a way to avoid Paypal International Fees altogether, there are ways to mitigate cost.

Self Billing

Self-billing is a financial agreement between a customer and a supplier. In most cases, it involves the customer preparing the invoice and sending it, along with the payment, to the supplier.

Inward Remittance

Inward remittance refers to the transfer of money from migrant workers to family or friends in their home country. However, this common understanding is only a partial reflection of the statistical meaning of international remittances. The International Monetary Fund explains inward remittance as the sum of these two key parts:

Demand Side Platform

The world of digital advertising is constantly shifting to reflect new advances in ad tech. Demand Side Platforms (DSPs) are quickly taking center stage in the realm of modern advertising. But why?

Setting up ACH Payments

In 2016, the number of payments processed through the ACH hit 25.5 billion and resulted in more than $43 trillion being transferred. If you want to learn how to set up ACH payments, we’ve put together a helpful six-step guide to walk you through the process.

Adaptive Payments

There are two primary types of adaptive payments:
Parallel payments, where payments that are sent directly to each receiver with the fees shared by each receiver respectively, and chained payments, where payment is remitted to one receiver who is liable for the overall transaction, including remitting payments to secondary receivers.

Echecks for Global Payments

You want to integrate as seamlessly as possible with existing accounting and ERP systems. However there are many key steps along the supplier payment process that still require significant manual effort beyond sending out payment instructions to the transfer API for bank, ACH, and wire services.