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Continue ReadingKeep out of trouble: 3 tips for new high-risk websites
Keep out of trouble: 3 tips for new high-risk websites – E-commerce has become the predominant way to shop for many consumer products and retail goods. For many website owners, high-risk e-commerce is a vast, and often lucrative, industry to be in, but it’s not without its hurdles. Cigar sites… Read More
Continue ReadingHow to fix Facebook images in WordPress
Facebook WordPress image correction Are your businesses’ Facebook posts showing a scroll of multiple, often redundant, images or worse yet, a blank silhouette when linking to your WordPress site? If so, this article will teach you how to correct it, and how to prevent it from happening again. Best of… Read More
Continue ReadingCigars, WooCommerce, & payment gateways
Cigars, WooCommerce, & payment gateways We provide cigar-friendly payment gateways and merchant account solutions for WordPress WooCommerce merchants and have learned a lot about WooCommerce in the process. There are a lot of excellent site-building platforms and carts out there these days for the online cigar industry. It can be… Read More
Continue ReadingCanadian high-risk payment gateways for vape, e-juice and glassware
Canadian high-risk payment gateways for vape, e-juice, & glassware We love passing on good news. We are in the business of helping high-risk e-commerce merchants who sell commonly prohibited, yet legal, items like e-juice, vaporizers, pipes, and glassware find stable payment gateway solutions. For years there was one big gap in… Read More
Continue ReadingQuickBooks Payments & prohibited categories
QuickBooks Payments & prohibited categories We recently helped an online FFL merchant with some basic information on how to accept credit cards through their Wix site, and the topic of QuickBooks processing came up. They were hoping to use QuickBooks to key enter some of their net-30 B2B clients who mail-in card numbers… Read More
Continue ReadingHow to sell vape & e-juice using WooCommerce
How to sell vape & e-juice using WooCommerce Are you mostly satisfied with your new WordPress electronic cigarette website, but have questions as to how best implement e-commerce functionality? WooCommerce, and a carefully selected payment gateway may be the answer you are looking for. WooCommerce is an excellent choice for vape… Read More
Continue ReadingHow to sell vape products online without a $500 fee
How to sell vape products online without a $500 fee “What? $500 upfront just to accept credit cards?” That merchants who sell electronic cigarettes or e-juice have to pay $500 as a registered tobacco merchant in order to accept payments is frustrating. It’s been upsetting vape merchants ever since one… Read More
Continue ReadingSSL matters for SEO
SSL matters for SEO HTTPS on every page – especially for vape, cigar, and FFL sites Selling electronic cigarettes online? You need to implement https (or “SSL”) on every page. Does your website sell cigars, alcohol or firearms and depend on organic search traffic to get customers? Well then yep,… Read More
Continue ReadingSignifyd and fraud protection for high-risk merchants
Signifyd and fraud protection for high-risk merchants For today’s high-risk e-commerce merchants, fraud is more of a threat than ever. Whether it be the vape site owner who fell victim to a scammer using their site to test stolen cards, the premium cigar merchant who lost thousands on an online order… Read More
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