As businesses grow, payment support becomes an important part of managing daily operations. Customers may need help checking a transfer, arranging a refund, or accessing a purchase linked to another email address. Having a payment provider handle these requests can free up merchants’ time for other business priorities. Read “Your Payment Provider Should Reduce Work, … Read more
Choosing the right stablecoin payment infrastructure is more than just selecting a coin or blockchain network. Checkout, recurring billing, settlement and payouts—these are areas that have different needs depending on the business. But what industries are driving these trends? NOWPayments’ new research explores how stablecoin adoption is changing across different business sectors and what this … Read more
A customer can choose a product, reach checkout, and start a payment but still leave before the purchase is complete. For e-commerce businesses, the payment step can become a conversion problem of its own. NOWPayments has published a new column on Cryptopolitan, The 22% Sales Boost Hiding in Your Crypto Checkout, written by Kate Lifshits, … Read more
Stablecoins now play a central role in crypto payments, cross border settlements, trading, and treasury operations. In the European Union, their use is governed by the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation, or MiCA, which sets common rules for crypto assets across all member states. USDC is widely used by businesses, exchanges, and payment providers, but … Read more
In this article, you’ll learn: Every day, internet requests fetch pages, call APIs, download files, and access cloud services. Until now, they could not natively handle payment. That gap matters more as AI agents begin working independently. They can research, use tools, and access digital services, but traditional checkout flows still expect a human to … Read more
Most businesses that accept crypto payments operate without reliable benchmarks. They don’t know how large a single transaction should be, which currencies their customers prefer, or whether their payment infrastructure is built for the volume that actually arrives. Every integration decision is a gamble. At NOWPayments, we process millions of dollars in crypto transactions each … Read more