In yesterday’s post, I concluded by mentioning the concept of “governance.”  Governance, as defined by Wikipedia, is: “Governance relates to decisions that define expectations, grant power, or verify performance.” In all software workflows, there is an element of governance.  In the payments industry, this governance is required to ensure a truly holistic software solution is [...]

For those of you not familiar with the term “API”, let’s discuss its meaning. An “Application Programming Interface” is, simply, the interface that allows one piece of software to communicate with another.  In most cases, this interaction between differing pieces software occurs because a developer invests the time and effort to code their software to [...]

As you may already be aware…IP Commerce announced, via a press release, a substantial update to our Managed Commerce Services Platform. The content of this release is available on the IP Commerce site (as linked above) or on PYMNTS.com. The detail of the updates is presented in the release, but there are a few elements [...]

On July 9th, I wrote a post entitled Hosted Payment Page and PCI Compliance. Since that point, IP Commerce has said several interesting engagement with partners through our Commerce Lab Integration Portal focused on the capability and efficacy of a hosted payment solution for smaller merchants. All have resulted in positive feedback regarding Speed to [...]

Many of my recent topics, and shared items*, have been centered on a blog entitled CloudAve. I have followed the posts on CloudAve for quite a while now and when presented with the opportunity to discuss IP Commerce with Ben Kepes…I was delighted. The post, entitled IP Commerce – A Payments Platform With More went [...]