Merchant Cash Advance Blog

Many Americans are looking for new ways to optimize the manner by which they make payments. 

United Healthcare is hoping to innovate such things in the medical field. The firm announced earlier this week that they will allow its customers to pay their medical bills online with a credit card, making them the first national insurer to offer such capability.

The back to school shopping rush is a yearly tradition, but recent studies suggest that American consumers may be approaching their purchases in a different way this year. Findings suggest that customers are expecting more out of the online merchant account services offered to them by retailers, and that they'll turn to competitors if they provide optimized e-commerce services. Virtual credit card terminals are no longer enough to satisfy consumers - now the entire shopping process must be filtered through a smartphone. 

The electronic card industry may be receiving a boost thanks to the innovative practices of some employers. Businesses are now begriming to pay their employees through pre-paid debit cards, as opposed to paychecks, aiding the payment processing industry by contributing to the ubiquity of electronic funds transfers. 

The West Virginia Treasurer's Office and Auditor's Office are currently engaged in a joint effort to offer state workers the ability to obtain their payment through pre-paid debit cards known as "West Virginia Pay Cards," according to a report from the West Virginia Metro News. It indicates that the state expects to save approximately $500,000 yearly by switching away from paper-based modes of payment, illustrating the profit potential that comes with optimizing recurring billing software capabilities. 

Many people like to think they can do everything through their Facebook - speak to their friends, discuss their work, post updates on their life, listen to music, and whatever else they would like. But the social media corporation recently announced their aims to offer users a new perk: the ability to purchase products using nothing more than their account ID. 

Facebook is planning to test the product over the course of the next month, according to a report from All Things D. With the use of the new system, users would be able to link their billing information to their Facebook ID through the cloud. From that point, whenever they wished to purchase a product through a mobile application, they would be able to do so simply by logging into their Facebook account. For many online merchants, large numbers of potential customers are lost at the check-out screen - so this attempt to expedite the process could leave to a large uptick in sales for online stores. 

Payment processing systems – and the methods of accepting credit card payments – continue to evolve. Only the industry isn't getting bigger, it's getting smaller. In fact, it's going mobile.

Mobile point-of-sale terminals will become much more prolific over the ensuing years, according to a press release featuring figures obtained by TechNavio. The firm predicts a compound annual growth ratio of more than 11 percent for the mobile POS industry, starting with figures recorded from last year and stretching out toward their annual projections leading up to 2013.