Category: Payment Methods

March 23, 2025

Embracing the Future of Payments: The APMs Supported by Cardstream®

In today’s rapidly evolving digital payment landscape, flexibility and adaptability are more critical than ever. As consumers continue to demand seamless, secure, and personalised payment experiences, businesses must be able ....

March 23, 2025

Cardstream® and Kount: Strengthening Payment Security with AI-Powered Fraud Prevention

In today’s fast-moving digital payments landscape, security and fraud prevention are more important than ever. Cardstream, a leading provider of independent payment gateway and payment connectivity solutions, has worked closely ....

February 25, 2025

Cardstream® Now Offers Click to Pay for Seamless and Secure Online Payments  

Cardstream is proud to announce that we now support Click to Pay, the next evolution in streamlined, secure online payments. This exciting addition enhances our commitment to providing cutting-edge payment ....

February 25, 2025

Powering Next-Generation Payments: Cardstream’s Integration with Open Banking 

As a leading Payment Service Provider, Cardstream® is excited to announce our new Open Banking payment service, introducing an innovative way to pay for our Partners and their Merchants. This ....

June 27, 2023

What is a Payment Gateway?

In today's digital age, online transactions have become the norm, revolutionising the way we do business. At the heart of this revolution lies the Payment Gateway, an integral component that ....

April 24, 2023

The Year of the PayFac

Payment Facilitators, also known as ‘PayFacs’, became popular in the 1990s. They were conceived to help small and medium sized businesses accept online payments. The PayFac model allows companies who ....

August 9, 2022

Why Use a Payment Gateway

An online payment gateway is an E-commerce service that processes, verifies, and accepts payments for Merchants using a secure internet connection. Any business that accepts online and card payments require ....

July 26, 2022

Alternative Payment Methods (APMs)

The past ten years has seen a boom in the variety of ways that we can pay for goods and services. Instead of relying on credit cards and cash, Alternative ....

June 28, 2022

The Cost of Payments

When a Merchant signs up for online payments, they are charged a fee for each transaction that is made. This fee can be one of two pricing models, known as ....

June 21, 2022

Festival Payment Trends

2022 is the first year back for many festivals and navigating payments in a world still feeling the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic may seem daunting. So, in an ever-changing ....