First Atlantic Commerce and B4Checkin announce integration

FAC payment gateway now available to B4Checkin customers   Hamilton, Bermuda & Halifax, Nova Scotia.  June 16 2014. First Atlantic Commerce (FAC), a global online payment solutions provider, and B4Checkin, a developer and provider of cloud based software solutions for … Continued

Ecommerce to boost fast-moving consumer goods sales, claims report

Global ecommerce will stimulate a boost in fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sales in the next two years, to the tune of $17 billion. That’s according to a new report launched by Kantar Worldpanel, cited by freshbusinessthinking.com, which suggests ecommerce will account … Continued

New iPhone tech to auto-input card details

iPhone users may soon find it quicker and easier than ever to shop online thanks to a new feature set to be rolled out as part of iOS 8. The operating system is strongly rumoured to include a new feature … Continued

British households to spend £4,000 online this year

The average British household is set to spend some £4,000 online this year, according to new figures from Barclaycard. It was discovered that – on the 30th anniversary of online shopping – Brits are to spend more money than ever … Continued

Health and beauty industry reaping e-retail rewards in UK

Health and beauty retailers saw online sales surge in April, with customers put into the spending mood by the arrival of warmer weather, internetretailing.net reports. When compared to the same month in 2013, sales in the sector increased by 32 per cent … Continued

Wet weather in Britain drives increases in online spend

The notoriously fickle British weather can play a sizeable role in determining whether people do their shopping online or in store, internetretailing.net reports.    According to new figures from takeaway ordering platform Just Eat, the weather is responsible for huge fluctuations in … Continued

British retailers to dispatch 865 million online orders in 2014

British retailers will process and dispatch 865 million online orders during 2014, iabuk.net reports.   According to new figures published by the UK’s online retail association IMRG, online stores are set to turn around their slow start to the year with … Continued