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How Excellent Customer Service can Help Grow Your Subscription Business

SegPay isn’t just a payments processor, we’re a customer support company too, handling consumer billing inquiries on behalf of merchants for more than a decade. This week we wanted to share a few lessons learned over the years; most are common sense but often overlooked. Good customer service is a key to sustaining any successful

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Cathy Quoted in Roundup of Best Billing Practices

Please read XBiz.com’s informative look at best billing practices for merchants, published this week. We appreciate that they asked SegPay to participate and we (of course) highly recommend the article. There’s lots of helpful information in there, including the following quote from our CEO Cathy Beardsley about the importance of being prepared for audits: “At any

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Review, Refund and Cancel Transactions in the Merchant Portal

It’s been about two months since merchants first got a look at SegPay’s new Merchant Portal, your central place to manage everything billing-related from virtually any device, anytime. Occasionally we will use this space to discuss specific features of the portal and address questions we’ve received from merchants. Today’s topic: reviewing, cancelling, refunding transactions, and

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Find Payout Adjustments Faster

We made a few changes to the Merchant Portal this week: Invoice Report Adjustments was added as a new invoice type, so you can filter the report to only show your invoices that include Adjustments, such as when the credit card association fees were applied to your account: Stand-in Stand-in processing is not available for

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Get to Know a SegPay Employee: Jessica

It is that time again: time to get to know one of the people behind SegPay, and put a face and a story to a name you may already know. If you are a merchant who has interacted with our tech support team, it’s very possible you have talked or emailed with Jessica McFarLane before.

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Recapping an Eventful Week in Europe

The SegPay team is back from Europe and we want to thank AVN, Xbiz, and TES for putting on three great events. We were there for all three, and had a blast touching base with our European partners and merchants. As always, Webmaster Access in Amsterdam was very well attended and AVN put on a

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Time for Merchants to Start Catering to Pre-paid Card Users

The popularity of pre-paid cards has exploded in recent years. They’re easy to get – just visit a supermarket or convenience store and look for the gift card display, where you’ll find plenty of cards bearing the Visa or Mastercard logo, pre-loaded with $25, $50 and $100. These cards can be used anywhere credit cards

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Tips on Launching an Affiliate Marketing Program

Better late than never to share our article, “Best-Performing Affiliate Programs Rely on Mapped-Out Objectives,” written by Cathy and published in August by XBiz. Engaged affiliates drive stronger traffic, so merchants should be constantly thinking about ways to interact with their affiliate networks. Merchants can motivate affiliates by offering limited-time discounts to push new customers to

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Card Association News

Part of our job at SegPay is to make sure merchants are up to date on the latest news and rules changes from Visa and Mastercard. The card brands are also making a concerted effort to improve their communication to all members of their value chain by publishing news and articles on a regular basis. 

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