This year’s sudden spike in online shopping on Black Friday showed the true potential of e-commerce in South Africa. But it also showed that local merchants may not be prepared for sudden spikes in e-commerce trade which will continue into the festive season – and the...
Increasing sophistication in card fraud is reason for concern. Not only for banks, but most especially for online merchants, who are at risk of losing their ability to trade should they be implicated in repeat fraud attempts and excessive customer disputes. While...
High-profile security breaches, such as the most recent one at Yahoo, have captured the headlines and given many pauses for thought about just who stores and secures our online identity. But it’s more than just the big corporates who are at risk when security is...
Europe’s Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) is expected to come into force in January 2018. With some banking industry commentators referring to it as the biggest development in banking history, one has to wonder why South Africa has not already begun to follow suit....
The South African e-commerce web development landscape is highly competitive with shrinking margins and developers highly sensitive to delays. Working with a payment vendor which understands the needs of developers as well as merchants can make all the difference. As...
While online retail still only accounts for 1% of retail revenue in South Africa, the growth rates of more than 20% year-on-year since 2000 speak volumes about the need for every business to seriously plan for an online presence. The 2016 numbers from World Wide Worx...
