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Stay in the know with payment industry updates, education and ways to optimize your business. 

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Industry updates

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Fintech solutions driving competitive advantages for community banks

Elavon helps community banks with fintech solutions are driving competitive advantages.

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Payment Solutions for Higher Education

Leveraging Elavon’s latest payment technologies, your university will be positioned to save costs, mitigate risk and improve the payment experience.

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Buy Button

Elavon Buy Buttons are the easiest way to accept payments online and can be placed on nearly any website or sent via email.

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Manage your business

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Ecommerce website requirements

Card brands require certain information to be featured prominently or to be easily accessed on websites that wish to accept their cards as a form of payment. Elavon can help you get started with your website follow the necessary requirements.

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20 Questions to ask before committing to a payment processor

Whether you’re starting a new business, selling online for the first time, or looking for a payment processor to better meet your needs, this guide by Elavon, is a great resource to help you understand what factors you need to consider. It covers the four main areas you need to pay attention to: funding, processing fees, security, and integration with ecommerce platforms.

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True Daily Funding

Elavon True Daily enables your business to be funded quickly, with minimal waiting or delay.

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Expanding Your Business Online

Expand your business online giving your customers more buying options than ever before with eCommerce.

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SMB eCommerce Solutions

Elavon takes the guesswork out of accepting eCommerce payments and managing your business so you can focus on growth.

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eCommerce Chargeback Solutions

Credit card chargebacks are a costly reality for online merchants. Elavon can provide you the knowledge you need to avoid costly chargebacks.

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eCommerce Solutions

Elavon offers global eCommerce payment expertise, so you can focus on expanding your business capabilities.

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Adapting to a new payment landscape

Elavon can help you enable your customers to pay their preferred way, including contactless.

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The 'Big Bang' for digital payments

Digital payments helped customers stay safe and connected to their local businesses when faced with pandemic lockdowns, but they have since grown accustomed to the convenience.

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Combat fraudulent card authorization testing

Elavon can help combat fraudulent card testing with 5 preventive measures.

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Preventing Downgrades

Accepting credit cards comes at a price, but it doesn't have to break the bank. When a business decides to accept credit cards as a form of payment, their choice of acceptance method can greatly impact the applicable Interchange rates or the amount due to the card issuing banks for settling payment card transactions.

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Cashing in on curbside convenience

Elavon has a suite of solutions that can help you cash in on the new normal of curbside convenience.

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How to maintain data security due diligence

Data breaches remain at an all-time high as bad actors increasingly turn to sophisticated technologies to seek out gaps or weaknesses in business data environments. Consequently, it’s in our mutual best interest to do all we can to protect you and help you protect yourself from security threats.

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6 Considerations for choosing a cloud-based point-of-sale solution

To keep up with today’s tech-savvy consumers, businesses are searching for ways to create a seamless, consistent shopping experience from beginning to end. Insert cloudbased point-of-sale (POS) solutions.

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The Need-to-know of PCI DSS Compliance

Elavon has put together this helpful guide that highlights the need-to-knows of validating PCI DSS compliance and how you can protect your business and customer payment data today and in the future.

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Surcharge

It is possible to offset the cost of accepting credit card fees with Elavon.

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safe-t-link

Elavon Safe-T Link delivers secure payments technology specifically designed to integrate with leading point-of-sale and property management systems.

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Electronic Check Service

Elavon electronic check service helps streamlined check acceptance – access funds quickly, minimize risk and reduce costs.

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Public Sector Service Fees

Elavon can help you offset the cost of accepting payments to help fund the programs citizens need the most.

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Dynamic Currency Conversion

Elavon provides a comprehensive Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC), you can cater to this ever-growing, lucrative international market – offering convenience and better services to your international cardholders.

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No signature required

Merchants in the U.S. have the choice to support a tap-to-pay experience without the need to capture a signature, which helps further limit physical interaction at the checkout terminal.

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Debit Optimization

Improve validation, reduce fraud, and fight chargebacks with Elavon debit optimization.

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Commercial Card Optimization

The interchange fees associated with accepting credit cards are a part of doing business, but it is possible for a business to reduce these costs. Let Elavon show you how.

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Solutions that lower your payment acceptance cost

Everyone wants to save money, especially if it is done without giving up a great customer experience. At Elavon, we have programs that help you reduce the cost of payment acceptance and improve cash flow.

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Paycentric for services

Paycentric for Services by Elavon is a bill presentment and payment solution that drives faster payments through digitally enabled customer experiences.

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How contactless payments work

Accepting contactless payments with Elavon, allows your customers to pay quickly and safely. Learn how contactless payments work.

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Everyday Funding

Elavon Everyday Funding is the fastest, free funding in the industry.

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Payments Core 365

Elavon Payments Core 365 offers a complete view of your payments data by allowing you to reconcile batched transaction data against funding data.

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Paycentric

Elavon offers Paycentric which gives your payers the billing and payment options they want and expect all in a single solution.

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Payments Insider

Elavon’s Payments Insider is our interactive customer portal, empowers you to manage all aspects of your payments business.

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Fast track funding

Streamline your funding pipeline with Elavon Fast Track Funding. 

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ACH eCheck

Elavon ACH eCheck solution enables your business to accept consumer bank account information via web, phone or mail as a form of direct payment.

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Multi-currency conversion

Attract international customers with Multi-Currency Conversion and Elavon.  Show your prices in any of the 90 currencies available providing complete transparency. 

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Account Updater

Avoid declined recurring payments with Elavon account updater.

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Keep yourself safe from fraud

As the worlds of technology and financial services converge, providing your merchants and their end users with a connected buying experience is crucial to differentiating your software in an increasingly crowded and competitive market.

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4 benefits of integrating payments with your software solution

As the worlds of technology and financial services converge, providing your merchants and their end users with a connected buying experience is crucial to differentiating your software in an increasingly crowded and competitive market.

4 benefits of integrating payments with your software solution

Safe-t-solo

Elavon Safe-T Solo secures transactions to protect your business and your customers’ payment data.

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Friendly fraud on the rise

Let Elavon help your small business overcome increased friendly fraud.

Friendly fraud on the rise

Winning over the connected shopper

Elavon provides a few of the service-on-demand benefits available through mPOS solutions.

Winning over the connected shopper

Supply chain interrupted: Better adaptability with business intelligence

Elavon can help your business overcome interruptions brought on by supply chain delays.

Supply chain interrupted: Better adaptability with business intelligence

Are you keeping an eye on everyday data security risks?

Elavon can help your businesses keep data security practices up-to-date and top-of-mind reduce the risk of falling victim to some of the most common types of fraud and data breaches.

Are you keeping an eye on everyday data security risks?

Converge API

Using the Elavon Converge API allows businesses to manage their payments all in one place.

Converge API

Digital Wallets

Digital wallets with Elavon allow you to offer your customers convenience, ease of use, and increased security.

Digital Wallets

Buy Button

Elavon Buy Buttons are the easiest way to accept payments online and can be placed on nearly any website or sent via email.

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Case studies

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Truck Rental Company Case Study

As one of the largest rental fleets in the do-it-yourself (DIY) moving industry, this multinational corporation understands that small payment processing savings in time and money can produce a significant impact on their bottom line.

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Commercial Card Optimization Case Study

Learn how Elavon helped find payment processing cost efficiencies for an Ivy League University.

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Luxury Hotel Case Study

Learn how Elavon helped a luxury hotel company provide their guest a personalized experience while protecting sensitive information.

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Wholesales Distributor Case Study

Elavon provides solutions to manage card brand interchange rates for a global industrial products and services supplier.

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Music Venue Case Study

Elavon helps music venue synchronize their payments landscape.

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