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Top Payments Industry Trends of 2021, So Far

The payments landscape has shifted dramatically this past year.…
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Why Leading Merchants Choose OLS Payments: Enhanced Security, Cost Savings and Flexibility

For more than 20 years, we’ve worked hard to solve our customers’ challenges and helped them stay at the forefront of emerging payments technology. We understand merchants’ biggest payments challenges and look for solutions that add value to their businesses.

Recently, we shared a blog about how OLS Payments helps businesses add functionality and connectivity to their payments capabilities. Today, we’ll take a look at three other reasons why leading merchants choose OLS Payments as their payments orchestration solution – enhanced security, cost savings and flexibility. These are all key factors that are crucial to the success of a company and can make or break the bottom line.

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Why Leading Merchants Choose OLS Payments: Increased Functionality and Simplified Connectivity

Since its launch in 1996, OLS Payments has built long-term relationships with top retail, hospitality, healthcare, financial and technology providers globally. Our goal is to help merchants process existing and emerging payments in the simplest, most secure and cost-effective way. As a leading partner for global payments, OLS Payments offers software and services that empower clients to create payment ecosystems of the future. Merchants choose us because they can leverage one of the most powerful omnichannel payments orchestration engines in the industry to increase functionality and simplify payments complexity.
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What Restaurants Need to Know About Online Order Settlement

In today’s on-demand world, consumers want to easily order food with just a few taps, whether on a restaurant’s own platform or from a third-party ordering and delivery service.

The Importance of Vaulting and Tokenization for Omnichannel Retailers

When the pandemic hit last year, retailers who previously relied…

What to Consider When Implementing QR Code Payments

If you’ve dined out at restaurants or went shopping lately, you may have noticed that more businesses are offering QR code payments. Juniper Research predicts that the use of QR codes for electronic payments will surge over 300% over the next five years.
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Payments Tokenization Explained: How It Works and Key Benefits for Merchants

According to Nilson Report, credit card fraud losses reached $28.65 billion worldwide in 2019. On top of that, the U.S. is the most card fraud-prone country in the world, accounting for more than a third of the total global loss alone.

To combat credit card fraud, merchants need a foolproof way to make payments secure and protect cardholder data. They need to ensure that the data is never captured or transmitted within the systems in a human-readable format, no matter the payment method.

Common Issues Merchants are Facing and How OLS Payments Can Help

In recent conversations with merchants they are often dealing with one or more of the following situations. A provider that either cannot provide something they need, their timeline to deploy it is lengthy, the solution is very expensive, or the solution would lock the retailer into the relationship with the provider.

The Benefits, Limitations and Considerations of Encryption

According to Gemalto’s Breach Level Index website, since 2013 more than 14.7 billion records were lost or stolen and only 4% of breaches involved systems where encryption was utilized. Said another way, that equates to 73 records per SECOND in that span.

Switching Things Up at the Retail Point-of-Sale

OLS COO, Andy Orrock and EVP, Chris Storbeck were featured on…