A vision statement is an aspirational statement: a vision statement defines the desired future position of a company. What is a Vision Statement? The company Vision Statement defines, if you like, the “pointy bit” of the organisation, and like the “pointy bit” of a ship, its structure allows it to move forwards by cutting through …
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Looking Back at the Future of Merchant Payment Systems
In 1849, the French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose “: the more things change, the more they stay the same … How do Retailers get paid? Retailers essentially exchange goods and services for cash, unless they are in the business of giving credit, but that would be …
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Do you remember what ATMs used to be like?
Back in the late 1970s, customer-facing banking technology was just getting started. The technology was still in its infancy, but it had come a long way since Barclays unveiled the world’s first ATM in Enfield in 1967. I wonder what Reg Varney would be thinking today?
What is a Solution Architect?
If everyone is in agreement about what makes a Solution Architect, then no one needs to externalise the definition … and no one will know that no one knows!
How did Tokenisation morph into a Card Scheme Scam?
Is tokenisation a force for payment good, or is it a scam?
Tokenisation might not be the most cost-effective answer to what is essentially a “manufactured” crisis, but it is the most profitable.
A series of vested commercial interests have managed to secure a return on initial investments in tokenisation technologies that might otherwise have been lost.
A Guide to Tipping in the Gig Economy
Tipping is a complex process, psychologically. It’s also a difficult process technically once you remove the convenience of cash. Here we work through the process of building a technological alternative.
Self-checkout at Tesco
Ever wondered why self-checkouts are so hard to use? So have I, but before we make our proposals for improvement, we need to understand the problems, and before we can understand the problems, we really need to experience them.
PM Questions: VAT and dropshipping in the UK
PaymentMonkey questions about the impact of VAT rules on setting up a dropshipping operation in the UK in 2021.
A step-by-step guide to building your first DropShipping store
OK, so I haven’t managed to write anything particularly constructive yet, but if you want to have a look at the dropshipping site, go ahead, click on the Philosopher’s Knot and fill yer boots … tensegrity.uk tensegrity.uk
What’s VAT got to do with DropShipping?
If you were starting out as a dropshipper last year, you probably weren’t going to be too bothered about the VAT-man … and the truth is that he probably wasn’t too bothered about you either. Collecting the tax was a bit fiddly and so he was only really going to be interested in you if …
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