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As Bill Payments Go Digital, The Rental Industry Still Lags

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bills paid online. trillion in 2017, and that could nearly double by 2021 — online billing platforms are rushing to incorporate payment processing capabilities into their offerings. Younger consumers are leading the way when it comes to online bill payments, with 61 percent of those payments coming from millennials.

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How Platform Payments Are Reimagining Rentals

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Consumers, particularly millennials, are increasingly paying their bills online. According to research from 2017, more than 50 percent of bills in the U.S. are paid online, with 61 percent of those payments coming from millennials. Bringing Rent Payments Online. Why, then, does the rent check endure?

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Mobile Payments: Samsung To Tackle Africa And Google The App Landscape

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Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Millennials Eschew Bank Mobile Wallets. The study found that both millennials and non-millennials want to use mobile to manage finances, and cash is becoming less important to both groups.

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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?

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And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. Take PayPal, for example. consumers showed that of the 7.75 Share of U.S.

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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

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Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. As PYMNTS readers know, that 2017 IPO was anything but glorious. Social Media’s Role.

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Blue Apron Marks Seventh Birthday Amid Meal Kit Industry Changes

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Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. As PYMNTS readers know, that 2017 IPO was anything but glorious. Social Media’s Role.

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28 Percent Of Consumers Cite Coupons As Most Important Beauty Merchant Feature

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When Sephora announced the launch of a new 2,000-square-foot concept store in Boston last year , it unveiled a marriage of brick-and-mortar and digital: The store allowed customers the ability to order products in-store from the Sephora website, and it announced same-day pickup through its Sephora app, too.

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