How Does Klarna Impact Merchants?

In recent years, Klarna has become a popular payment service provider for online shoppers in the UK due to the variety of payment options they offer customers to make shopping easier and more accessible. While this may seem like a win-win situation for both customers and merchants, it can actually have a significant cost impact […]

How to Add TrustistTransfer to Your Home Screen on Android Phones

Adding a webpage to your mobile phone’s home screen can vary depending on the browser you use. Below you can find steps for the most popular browsers used on android phones.   Samsung Internet Method 1 Step 1: Open the TrustistTransfer app on your Samsung Internet Browser. Step 2: Tap the install icon at the […]

How to Add TrustistTransfer to Your iPhone Home Screen

Currently on Apple Devices you can only add a webpage to your Home Screen using the Safari browser, you can find the steps to do that below: Step 1: Head to the TrustistTransfer app on your Safari browser. Step 2: Log into your TrustistTransfer account. Step 3: Tap the “Share” button at the bottom of […]

Why Giving People Your Bank Account Details for a Payment is a bad Idea

One of the Trustist team was buying fish and chips one Friday evening recently. Not having cash on him since the COVID pandemic he assumed that the chippy would have a card machine. It didn’t, instead the owner of the chip shop said ‘just do a bank transfer, here are my bank account details’ and […]

How Will The New Stripe Fees Impact Your Business?

One of the world’s leading online payment processing platforms, Stripe, has recently announced a major update to their fee structure which will come into effect from 10th April 2023.  The change, which includes increases to the fees for both card processing and disputes, is set to impact businesses of all sizes across the UK (and […]

What is Open Banking And Why is it Becoming so Popular?

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Open Banking is quickly becoming one of the most popular methods of payment, so it’s time to make sure you know everything you need to get its benefits!   Open Banking allows customers to share their banking information with other parties or companies. Open Banking is the sharing of data between banks and third parties. […]

What is NFC Fraud And How to Avoid it

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What is NFC? Near Field Communication (NFC), is short range wireless technology that allows you to exchange information between two devices that are in a close, physical proximity. NFC is commonly used for mobile payments where the NFC chip can be used to make contactless payments. Today, there are over 1 billion NFC-enabled devices worldwide, […]

The 28 Year History of QR Codes and What Lies in the Future for Them

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Although not everyone knows it, QR codes have a long and varied history. In fact, its invention dates all the way back to 1994. A Japanese company called Denso Wave Incorporated created a barcode that could be scanned by mobile phones and other devices with cameras. It didn’t take long for other companies to realise […]