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Posted on May 26, 2019How to find your Amazon MWS merchant details
Payoneer’s Store Manager lets you connect all of your Amazon stores to your Payoneer account so you can:
- Receive Capital Advance offers for eligible stores
- View the payment history for each of your stores
- Manage all store payments in one consolidated place
- Add new receiving accounts whenever you need
If you choose not to use our automatic connection process (which lets you connect your Amazon store to Store Manager in just a few quick clicks), you’ll need to connect manually. To do so, you’ll need your Amazon Seller ID and MWS Authorization Token to connect your store. Here’s how you find them:
1. Go to the Amazon developer site that matches where your Amazon store is located:
2. Click Sign up for MWS.
3. Enter your Amazon credentials and click Sign In.
4. Click Authorise a developer (text may differ slightly according to your region).
5. Enter the Developer’s Name and Developer Account Number that matches the location of your store:
Marketplace Developer’s Name Developer Account Number North America Amazon.ca PayoneerINC 0009-9351-6334 Amazon.com.mx PayoneerINC 0009-9351-6334 Amazon.com PayoneerINC 0009-9351-6334 Europe Amazon.fr PayoneerEU 3033-3045-0266 Amazon.de PayoneerEU 3033-3045-0266 Amazon.it PayoneerEU 3033-3045-0266 Amazon.es PayoneerEU 3033-3045-0266 Amazon.co.uk PayoneerEU 3033-3045-0266 Japan Amazon.co.jp PayoneerJP 5473-5759-5801 For example, if you are selling on Amazon UK, you will enter the following details and click Next.
6. Accept the Terms & Conditions and click Next.
7. You now have your Seller ID and MWS Authorization Token ready. Log in to connect your Amazon store to your Payoneer account.
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Posted on May 23, 2019Dai (DAI) is now available on Coinbase
Starting today, Coinbase supports Dai (DAI) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store DAI.
DAI will be available for customers in most jurisdictions, but will not initially be available for residents of the state of New York.
According to the DAI whitepaper, DAI is a decentralized stablecoin running on Ethereum that was designed with a goal of maintaining a target value of approximately US$1.00. Unlike most centralized stablecoins, DAI isn’t backed by US dollars in a bank account. Instead, it’s backed by collateral on the Maker (MKR) platform. The relevant whitepapers explain that MKR and DAI tokens form a paired set of assets in which MKR provides governance, and DAI is a decentralized, collateral-backed stablecoin.
One of the most common requests we receive from customers is to be able to trade more assets on our platform. With the announcement of our listing process last year, we anticipate listing more assets over time that meet our standards. We are also investing in new tools to help people understand and explore cryptocurrencies. We launched informational asset pages (see DAI here), as well as a new section of the Coinbase website to answer common questions about crypto.
You can sign up for a Coinbase account here to buy, sell or convert DAI today.
Dai (DAI) is now available on Coinbase was originally published in The Coinbase Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
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Posted on May 23, 2019What the technology hype cycle tells us about the future of crypto
Coinbase VP of Engineering shares his perspective on where we are in the crypto lifecycle, drawing from his experience leading AWS Lambda
One of the interesting opportunities I’ve enjoyed in my career is getting a ringside seat to innovative technologies that have changed the world. Being at companies that have a huge impact on their industry, including Microsoft, Amazon, and now Coinbase, means I get to experience and work on disruptive technologies every day. One particular aspect of that is experiencing the Hype Cycle up close and personal multiple times. At Amazon I got to see the entire lifecycle of a service — from writing the initial business plan for AWS Lambda to launching it at re:Invent to ultimately building it into one of the largest enterprise-grade cloud businesses on the planet. As VP of Engineering at Coinbase, I’m struck by some of the parallels between Serverless computing and crypto as they go through their respective lifecycles.
How is innovation perceived over time? How do you gauge the success of ideas that have large potential for change before they’re fully adopted?
Let’s look back at Lambda and Serverless computing as a way to better understand where Crypto has been, where it’s headed, and how (and when) it’s being adopted.
Lambda’s Innovation Trigger and the Peak of Inflated Expectations
Every significant new technology almost inevitably suffers from being overhyped; in early days, nascent implementations, immature tooling, and emerging processes haven’t yet caught up to customer and developer needs. Let’s look back at Lambda’s initial launch in November 2014. At that time it only allowed a single minute of execution time, 1 GB of memory, operated in a single region, had no ability to connect to customer Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), and didn’t even allow for synchronous (direct) invocations. It had two event sources, Amazon S3 and Amazon Kinesis, and a (very) rough “double beta” of Amazon DynamoDB change stream events.
Meanwhile, the hype was incredible — the press talked about how this new computing model could replace existing computation and applications. Customers’ excitement was unbounded as they imagined a world without servers, with the promise of infinite cloud capacity, and with perfect utilization. The initial launch presentation was standing room only, as was the repeat session added the following day. It seemed that cloud nirvana had arrived. Back in Seattle, the team toasted our launch, confident in a bright future filled with customer success and a new, growing business for Amazon.
Lambda’s Trough of Disillusionment
In the ensuing months, reality set in: Running time and memory limitations, the lack of access to SQL databases (virtually all of which sat behind VPCs), the limited number of event sources, and other limitations became more apparent. Articles, posts, and tweets stopped talking about hope and excitement and began lamenting the then-current problems and limitations. Initially limited capacity in new regions and throttles on calls due to limits angered some customers. “Cold starts” and other friction from those early days caused some early adopters to declare the entire approach a failure. By the time the term “serverless” entered the popular lexicon, it was already being described as DOA by some of the very people who had initially raved about it. On the business side, adoption was growing, but volumes were modest in the first few months, and on the team we began to doubt ourselves — had we really done something unique and exciting, or was it an expensive flop?
Hockey Stick Growth and the Slope of Enlightenment
Meanwhile, the Lambda team was working hard to remove limitations and deliver features: synchronous invocations, dozens of new event sources, larger memory, longer running times, new regions…the service quickly grew into the enterprise-grade offering that customers needed to really get value from it. And they did: In a little more than a year after launch, enterprise users became a significant customer segment. Customers who had dismissed the idea came back to reevaluate. Revenue, volume, and adoption were all growing rapidly, just like we’d been waiting for.
It wasn’t just the technology itself that needed to grow up — meeting customer expectations as a full-fledged solution required an ecosystem. For Lambda, that looked like AWS Solutions Architects who could train customers on best practices, new conferences being established, and lots of examples to help explain this new way of writing applications.
Growing into its shoes took time, in part because new technologies, like Firecracker, which enables multiple hypervisors on a single EC2 instance, had to be developed in order to break through some of the limitations. This “second wave” of R&D was actually more involved than what we originally launched, in part because along the way Lambda had grown so much, so every change had to keep the “production promise” for hundreds of thousands of customers.
Plateau of Enlightenment
Meanwhile, the ecosystem was growing up, too. Application modeling and deployment tools were created, Lambda achieved compliance with major assurance programs like SOC and PCI, and formal SLAs were introduced. Third party tools and services emerged for everything from security to monitoring to support. Today, Lambda performs trillions of executions per month and has hundreds of thousands of active customers. It’s found a place in the technology portfolios of many Fortune 500 companies, with 60% of IT departments already using it or planning to deploy, and is considered an essential part of best practice cloud architectures. Reality caught up with that exciting initial hype — it just took time!
Crypto’s Hype Cycle
If you’ve been watching the crypto space, this all sounds rather familiar. Lots of initial hype (‘fiat money will be replaced!’) followed by painful reality. Falling prices in 2018 for popular assets like Bitcoin were roundly equated with crypto’s failure as a concept; a moment commonly referred to as “crypto winter” sent a palpable chill through the broader ecosystem. Meanwhile, legitimate limitations of the early technical expressions of crypto and blockchains were (and still are) mistaken for their eventual outcomes. Comparisons of Bitcoin’s 4.6 transactions per second versus Visa’s average of 1,700 called into question the idea of using blockchain as a payment processing platform. Scalability, latency, and throughput limitations, proof-of-work’s high economic costs, and the challenges some companies experienced as they grappled unsuccessfully with the realities of handling customer funds all diminished the initial luster of the approach.
But as with Serverless, the underlying technologies (along with their ecosystems of tools and processes) are growing up. Just as the hype cycle might be ready to declare crypto dead, fundamental innovation is broader than ever, and growing rapidly on every front:
- Scalability and throughput are being addressed through classic optimizations, like sharding, as well as new, crypto-native techniques including batching, STARKS, and Layer 2 protocols. Proof-of-stake and related governance mechanisms provide a complementary model to proof-of-work, offering lower latency and aggregate power consumption.
- Smart contracts and built-in application platforms are raising the level of abstraction to create a “distributed cloud” that reimagines application architecture and economics.
- At the same time technology and performance fundamentals are being optimized, innovative founders are exploring expansions of the business model. Including how real estate, art, and other assets and activities can be expressed in a crypto-centric way.
- And true to crypto’s origins, conventional finance is being reimagined and reinvented. Both the technology, and the businesses bringing it to market, are growing into their (very big) shoes at last.
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Crypto’s “Hype Cycle”
The Gartner Hype Cycle model, applied to crypto What determines the length of time it takes to move through the hype curve? The larger the impact of a change, the broader its market reach, and the more disruptive it is versus what came before, the longer it takes to reach the final stages, where the technology reaches its full maturity in both implementation and adoption. With Lambda, that took about three years from the initial launch. Lambda is now firmly in its “productivity plateau,” having been adopted by a third of all enterprises, with serverless now representing the fastest growing cloud computing technology.
Crypto as a technology, meanwhile, has the potential to change how everyone on the planet experiences financial services — its reach is broader than software development and IT efficiency, and its economic impact runs deeper than the cloud. As a result, there’s still more time to go before we reach the stage where crypto is as ubiquitous as fiat currencies and as easy to program as Serverless. It hasn’t reached its productivity plateau yet, but we’re close enough now to see what some of those improvements could look like across the entire cryptoeconomy. (Note, these are innovations we look to support both via Coinbase and our investment arm, Coinbase Ventures):
- Scaling to aggregate global payment transactions per second so that every individual and commercial transaction can be captured in a blockchain.
- Per-transaction latency (through L2 solutions and other mechanisms) in low-digit milliseconds, regardless of geography.
- Compute and storage costs that reflect the underlying costs of cloud infrastructure and which are independent of the distribution scale of a blockchain’s network.
- Tools, business processes, user interfaces, and vibrant third party ecosystems for both developers and finance workers that rival those of cloud and mobile solutions today.
Blockchains and cryptocurrencies today are where the public cloud was 10 years ago, but they’re on an amazingly fast ramp, with core R&D, customer-centric engineering, and ecosystem enablement all happening simultaneously. The innovative implementation work going on in the many open source communities and at companies like Coinbase to create new capabilities, remove restrictions, and bring compelling technologies to market is one of the most amazing things I’ve seen in my career. Hype curve, meet reality!
PS. We’re always looking for talented folks to share this amazing journey with us, so if this sounds like an adventure you want to be part of, check out our open roles to learn more!
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What the technology hype cycle tells us about the future of crypto was originally published in The Coinbase Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
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Posted on May 23, 2019Amazon Prime Day 2019: What Sellers Need to Know
For many eSellers, few sale days compare to Amazon’s Prime Day. Two years ago, Amazon saw an increase of over 60% in sales on Prime Day, and last year over 100 million products were sold.
The popularity, numbers and revenue generation potential have made Amazon Prime Day the ultimate eSeller holiday – and one that eSellers should start preparing for already now.
To help plan your Prime Day promotions, here is the most important information for eSellers to know about Amazon Prime Day 2019:
What is Amazon Prime Day?
Amazon Prime Day is the annual sale event of the year for Amazon designed specifically for Amazon Prime subscribers. During Prime Day, Prime members enjoy exclusive discounts on Amazon products as well as products by third party vendors.
The main goal of Amazon Prime Day, which was launched in 2015, is to reward current Prime members as well as encourage new members to join the paid-subscription prime service. Each year more and more countries celebrate Prime Day, and today Prime members in over 17 countries, including Australia, Singapore, Luxemburg and Netherlands, which all joined in 2018, can shop during the Amazon Prime Day events.
Today, Amazon Prime Day is a worldwide celebration of online shopping, making it a top sale day for eSellers. While Amazon does not make exact numbers known, experts estimate that Prime Day 2018 generated over $4.19 billion globally – a 74% increase from 2017 estimates.
Because of the sheer volume of sales, the willingness of customers to shop and the exposure Amazon sellers get, Amazon Prime day is one of the most beneficial days for eSellers worldwide looking to increase revenue, reduce inventory and drive sales.
When is Amazon Prime Day 2019?
The exact date of Amazon Prime Day 2019 has not yet been announced, but it is predicted that it will take place around July 15th, 2019.
The first Amazon Prime Day event took place on July 6th, 2015 and commemorated the 20th anniversary of Amazon. The following Prime Days all took place in July too. The length of Prime Day is also steadily increasing, surpassing 36 hours in 2018. Prime Day 2019 will be at least 36 hours, if not longer.
Because of the uncertainty regarding the exact date, eSellers looking to participate in Prime Day 2019 should plan in advance, be aware of the Prime Day promotions and know what to expect (by continuing to read this article).
Amazon Prime Day 2019: Promotions you should know about
Since customers expect special offers on Amazon Prime Day, eSellers should be prepared to take advantage of the different types of promotions Amazon offers:
- Lightning Deals
- Amazon Coupons
- Deal of the Day
Lightning Deals are promotions that are limited item deals offered for a short period of time. Customers are often limited to one product per customer. Items that pushed as Lightning Deals often enjoy increased revenue during the deal as well as improve Amazon store ranking in the long run.
Lightning deals are available for third-party sellers and vendors. Amazon pre-selects lightning deal eligible products for sellers, and vendors can pick any product to submit. To read more about eligibility, click here.
Vendors can opt-in to offer customers Amazon Coupons. In doing so, vendors can increase product awareness as well as boost sales, specifically during Prime Day.
Another great promotional tool that eSellers need to be aware of before Prime Day is the Deal of the Day option. Deal of the Day items are single items or several related items that are on sale for one day only. This type of promotion is only available to vendors.
Amazon Prime Day 2019: Deadlines for sellers
Watch this space for Amazon Prime Day 2019 deadlines! The deadlines are likely to be announced any minute, since:
- In 2018, the deadline for third-party sellers to submit Amazon Prime Day Lightning Deals was almost two months before Prime Day took place.
- Roughly six weeks before Prime Day 2018 was the deadline for Vendors to submit Lightning Deals, Coupons, Category Deals, etc.
- One month (and one day) before Prime Day was the deadline for Vendors to submit marketing packages
To make sure you are ready for Prime Day deadlines, you should plan your promotions and Lightning Deal submissions now.
Conclusion
Ranking just below Singles Day, Cyber Monday and Black Friday, Amazon Prime Day is quickly becoming one of the most well-known and profitable shopping days of the year. The 36+ hour sale event has the potential to boost revenue, increase exposure to new products and improve your Amazon store ranking and reputation.
To make sure you are ready for Amazon Prime Day 2019, make sure to keep an eye out for Prime Day deadlines and prepare your submissions in advance. Also make sure your store is optimized for searches, in terms of pictures and content.. Make sure to build a budget for promotion and increase your spending to increase revenue generation.
Don’t underestimate the power a single day has on your business. Prepare now for the shopping frenzy that is fast approaching!
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Posted on May 23, 2019How to add an Amazon Store to Store Manager
Marketplace sellers know that to succeed in today’s competitive marketplace, being efficient and laser-focused are critical. Managing one store to success takes some effort but managing multiple stores can begin to be challenging. With Payoneer’s Store Manager it’s now easier than ever to manage all your marketplaces in one centralized location from within your Payoneer account.
When you select Payoneer as your payment solution of choice your store is automatically added, but Amazon stores need to be added manually. Continue reading for the step-by-step instructions on how to add your Amazon stores to Store Manager.
Important Note: You will need a Seller ID and MWS Authorization Token to set up your store. Before you begin the set-up process, read this blog to learn how to retrieve these details.
How to add your store to Store Manager:
1. After signing in to your Payoneer account, go to Activity > Store Manager.
2. Click GET STARTED on the welcome page.
If you have connected at least one store, a list of your stores will be displayed. To add a new Amazon store, click ADD STORE.
3. Select the currency in which you receive payments from this store.
4. Select the receiving account that is connected to this store and to which you receive payments from the store. Your receiving account details will be displayed on the page. Click Next.
5. You’re now ready to enter the details of your store.
a. Select the marketplace in which your store operates.
b. Type your store’s name.
c. Type the email address associated with your store.
6. Click Next immediately below the store details.
7.If you require an account statement to provide to Amazon, provide the details for your store and click Next. Otherwise, click I don’t need an account statement.
Note: Make sure the details you enter match those used in Amazon Seller Central registration.
8. You’re now ready to connect your store to Store Manager.
a.Click Connect to sign in to Amazon Seller Central.
b. Agree to Amazon’s terms and click Next.
c. Click Continue to return to Payoneer.Your store will now be connected to Store Manager. If you have more than one store to connect, follow the set-up steps again until all your stores are consolidated in Store Manager.
Note: You can save your store details and finish connecting the store to Store Manager at a later time. To do so, click Save my details and connect later. Until you connect your store you will not enjoy all the benefits of Store Manager.
Option to Connect Manually
You can also choose to connect your store manually (click Connect manually using MWS auth token). To do so, you’ll need your MWS seller ID and authorization token. Click here to learn how to retrieve these for your store.
Manage your stores and download bank statements
After you’ve set up all your stores, use Store Manager to see all your marketplace activity in one central location.
1. Click the store name to see store receiving account details and payment history:
2. Need to do some number-crunching on your payments? Click
(located by the search bar) to export your payment details to Excel for more in-depth analysis.3. Click
to view details about the store, the owner and the Payoneer receiving account linked to it.
4. To get a bank statement for Amazon, simply click
on the store details window. Download will start immediately. The bank statement will be downloaded in PDF format:
For more information, please read the FAQ in our Support Center.
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Posted on May 22, 2019Introducing Coinbase Watchdog: A new approach to UI and code-driven automation for Datadog
At Coinbase, we use Datadog to collect system and application metrics, implement SLIs and SLOs, create dashboards, and more. As the number of dashboards and monitors grew, we began to see the need to codify them. We were worried that we didn’t have tools to detect accidental or malicious modification. Imagine a production incident that was not noticed by engineers because of an accidentally muted monitor.
Codification solves this because modifications are explicit (through code) and are stored in version control (benefitting from notification and code review systems).
One way of solving this problem would be to store the Datadog components (e.g. Datadog timeboards, screenboards, and monitors) in a version control system and apply changes done through code. The downside of this approach is that managing screenboards or timeboards though the code is not convenient or friendly.
Another way of solving this problem would be to use a Datadog UI-driven approach. This would be much more convenient and friendlier to use. This would require detecting changes, creating a request to submit it back to a version control system and the ability to revert/rollback changes that were not approved.
To achieve the best of both potential solutions (code and UI-driven approaches) we first started by reviewing existing projects we could find:
- https://github.com/trueaccord/DogPush
- https://github.com/codenize-tools/barkdog
- https://github.com/rapid7/dogwatch
- https://github.com/grosser/kennel
Each project had their pros and cons but this came down to two issues: not being able to codify dashboards in addition to monitors (even if we forked and contributed back) or being too complex for our customers.
Introducing Coinbase Watchdog
Coinbase Watchdog is a GitHub app and a Golang service that uses the Datadog API to watch for changes in Datadog, achieving the best of both a code and UI-driven approach. When it sees a change, it automatically creates a Pull Request (PR) with the changes in a dedicated Datadog GitHub repository. We have control and consensus mechanisms (you can read more about Heimdall here) that provide us the guarantees that a sufficient number of people have reviewed the change before it can land on master. If a PR was not approved and closed by a customer, Watchdog will call Datadog APIs to restore the components from the master branch in source control.
This approach gives us a UI-driven codification bot. All changes made in the Datadog UI will be automatically picked up by the bot and corresponding Pull Requests will be created. Watchdog can also detect if a user modified the code (Datadog component JSON) and apply the change to Datadog.
The two workflows are pictured here:
Coinbase Watchdog workflows Configuring Watchdog
The Watchdog service has two types of configuration:
- System configuration: this configuration includes all required parameters such as Datadog API/APP keys, GitHub application private key, GitHub project URL, GitHub app installation ID, etc. This configuration is passed to the service with environment variables.
- User configuration: this is used by customers. Simple YAML files with a list of Datadog component IDs and metadata such as team, project name, etc. You may have many YAML files in the configuration directory and a configuration folder can have any arbitrary number of subfolders.
This is an example of a User configuration YAML file:
The components that you see above are:
- meta: team: An arbitrary team name identifier.
- meta: slack: A Slack room name to notify of changes.
- dashboards: A list of dashboard IDs to watch.
- monitors: A list of monitor IDs to watch.
- screenboards: A list of screenboard IDs to watch.
How does Coinbase Watchdog detect changes?
The Watchdog service is completely stateless. There are two ways in which Watchdog detects changes: Full sync and Incremental.
Full sync
When the Watchdog service starts for the first time, it will query all components by ID and check each against the components stored in GitHub. If some component files are different, new PRs will be created per user configuration file. Depending on users’ configuration files, this step could potentially make many Datadog API calls. However, this will only happen once on service startup to verify that the current state in Datadog is consistent with the source in GitHub.
Watching for incremental changes
This is a fairly straight-forward task, and consists of several steps:
- The Datadog APIs conveniently expose a field “modified” which contains a component modification date. Watchdog polls the APIs https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v1/monitor, https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v1/screen, https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v1/dash . every N minutes (in our case every 10 minutes) and checks if the current time minus modified field value is less then 10 minutes.
- Watchdog uses a git implementation written in Golang under the hood. If step 1 was successful, Watchdog will pull the latest changes from the master branch, create a new local branch, make an HTTP GET request to retrieve the Datadog component from the Datadog API, save the component to a file, and run the equivalent of the git status command to see if the file in the master branch is different from the API response.
- Watchdog will then query GitHub APIs to find if duplicate PRs have been opened and if so it will ignore the current one.
An example API response from the Datadog API showing the “modified” key:
Notifications
When Watchdog creates a new PR it is important to notify the relevant team so that they can review the PR. We use a GitHub’s CODEOWNERS feature for that. In the GitHub repository root we have a CODEOWNERS file with the following lines:
config/reliability/ @engineering/reliability
data/infra/reliability/ @engineering/reliability
If a PR affects files in config/reliability/* or data/infra/reliability/* the Reliability Engineering team will be notified by email.
Furthermore, a team can opt-in to Slack notifications by setting a “slack” field under “meta” in user config file with a slack channel (see above picture).
Future features
In the future, we would like to add more features and are already working on a way to automatically revert changes based on PR expiration. We’re also looking forward to see if others who use Datadog find this service useful and are able and willing to contribute.
Datadog introduced new dashboard APIs which is currently not supported by Watchdog. We are planning to add this feature soon and meanwhile PRs are highly appreciated ;)
If you’re interested in contributing to this project, check it out on GitHub here!
If you’re interested in helping us build a modern, scalable platform for the future of crypto markets, we’re hiring in San Francisco!
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Posted on May 22, 2019Track your account and payments on the go with the Payoneer mobile app
At Payoneer, we understand your time is precious and that your day-to-day usually involves a lot of multitasking! The Payoneer mobile app is therefore the perfect complement to our web-based account, empowering you to manage your global payments on the go.
What can I use the Payoneer mobile app for?
The Payoneer mobile app is a constant work in progress as we strive to enhance functionality and add more valuable features that meet our customers’ payments needs. There are currently multiple actions you can take using the app, and this list is growing! Using the app, you can:
Track balances and transactions
See exactly what’s going on inside your account. Instantly check all your currency and card balances, track all account transactions, and view available funds on your prepaid card (if you have one).
Easily share receiving account details
Easily share your receiving account details with clients around the world to get paid via bank transfer. With the click of a button you can share your details through Whatsapp, Outlook, Messenger, or however else you choose.
Receive important notifications
Be notified immediately about key financial transactions, special offers, and other account activity by opting in to receive push notifications.
Access your information quickly and securely
Depending on the type of mobile device you use, you’ll be able to sign in quickly and securely with face or touch ID.
Refer friends to Payoneer
Share the love and earn awards by referring a friend to Payoneer. Using your phone’s social networking capabilities, you can quickly and easily invite a friend to explore our services.
Estimate your ATM withdrawal amount
One of the app’s most popular features is the ATM withdrawal feature that enables you to estimate how much you can withdraw from an ATM in the local currency. This is certainly useful if you’re on a trip abroad.
Contact Customer Care
And if you have any questions at all for our Customer Care team, you can create and send support tickets from within the app.
Please note: Keep your app up to date with the latest version in order to enjoy new features and benefit from bug fixes.
The Payoneer app is available in over 20 languages, and is a fast, easy and convenient way for you to stay on top on your global payments on the go.
Go on, give it a try!
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Posted on May 22, 2019How do consumers prefer to pay for recurring purchases in 2019?
How do consumers want to pay for subscriptions, memberships, bills and instalment plans? The answer to this question can hold the key to conversion rate optimisation for businesses. Knowing which payment methods your customers are comfortable with, and which they actively prefer to pay with, can have a significant impact on revenue generation for businesses taking recurring payments.
We partnered with YouGov to ask 12,785 consumers across the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand what their payment preferences are in 2019. The research covers four typical recurring purchase use cases: traditional subscriptions, online subscriptions, household bills, and instalments. Together, these markets represent more than two-thirds of the world’s recurring payment volume.
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Which payment methods do consumers prefer to use for recurring purchases in 2019?
As the data shows, the answer to this question depends on where your customers live. If you take a look at existing research, for example, you’ll see that cheques are more relevant in America relative to the rest of the world. While in China, mobile payment transactions are huge. Cultural and technological landscapes can differ drastically from country to country. And these can heavily influence consumers’ payment preferences.
Let’s take a look at some key insights from the data…
German consumers don’t like credit cards...
On average, 40% of Germans are ‘very unlikely’ to use credit cards (and 29% feel the same about debit cards).
...but North American consumers love credit cards
Canadians are more likely to make recurring payments on credit cards than any other nationality surveyed. 27% are ‘very likely’ to use them for traditional subscriptions (such as gym memberships) and 26% are for household bills and online subscriptions.
Americans are almost as keen – credit cards are their preferred method for both traditional and online subscriptions.
People stick to tried and trusted methods to pay bills
Outside North America, consumers in every country surveyed said they were ‘very likely’ to pay their household bills the traditional way – by Bank Debit (or as Europeans tend to call it - Direct Debit).
Consumers want alternatives to credit cards and debit cards
In 9 out of 10 markets surveyed, around one-third of consumers said they were likely to choose Bank Debit to pay for online subscriptions. And yet, looking at the top 44 global subscription websites, only 1 offered Bank Debit as a payment option (and only in Germany).
There’s a divide over digital wallets like PayPal
In Denmark for example, an average of 44% of consumers were ‘very unlikely’ to use a digital wallet to make any kind of recurring purchase. Whereas in Spain, an average of 16% were ‘very likely’ to.
Preference guides consumers’ purchases
For B2C companies, understanding consumer purchasing preferences is critical. Having been given a wide choice of payment methods, consumers are minded to exercise it - and they may well go elsewhere if they can’t pay the way they want.
If there’s anything to take away from this research, it’s that there is no ‘one size fits all’ global offering for recurring payments. There is no single solution that will suit all your customers across every country, income bracket or age group. But armed with the right data, you can implement the best solutions for your business, and optimise your conversion.
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Posted on May 20, 2019Accept USD Coin with Coinbase Commerce
Today we’re excited to announce that businesses can now accept USD Coin with Coinbase Commerce. USD Coin (USDC) is a US dollar-backed stablecoin brought to you by Circle and Coinbase. Accepting USD Coin gives our merchants many of the benefits of accepting cryptocurrency but at a stable price: no transaction fees, no chargebacks, and full control over funds.
Coinbase Commerce is a service launched early last year that enables merchants to accept multiple cryptocurrencies directly into a user-controlled wallet. Coinbase Commerce can be directly integrated into a merchant’s checkout flow or added as a payment option on all popular e-commerce platforms such as Shopify or WooCommerce. It’s easier than ever to start accepting cryptocurrency and setup takes just a few minutes.
Adding USD Coin to Coinbase Commerce enables businesses to accept payments online in the same way they’re able to accept cash in-store. Unlike accepting credit card payments, merchants can accept USD Coin without geographical limitations or the need for a traditional bank account. Merchants can accept payment in USDC from customers around the globe in minutes with zero transaction fees.
How to Get Started
If you’re new to Coinbase Commerce, simply sign up to start accepting USD Coin. If you’re an existing user, then there’s no action required.
Accept USD Coin with Coinbase Commerce was originally published in The Coinbase Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
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Posted on May 17, 2019Coinbase Earn now allows users in 100+ countries to earn their share of $100M+ in cryptocurrency
Beginning today, users in more than 100 countries can start earning cryptocurrency by completing educational tasks at coinbase.com/earn.
Introduced in 2018, Coinbase Earn enables Coinbase users to earn crypto for answering quizzes, completing tasks, and trying new decentralized protocols. Asset issuers likewise use Coinbase Earn to teach people how to use their new cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects. Earn opportunities are currently publicly available for Stellar Lumens (XLM), ZCash (ZEC), Basic Attention Token (BAT), and 0x (ZRX), with many more coming soon.
As of today, we’re opening up Coinbase Earn to a much larger number of users. Specifically, users from the United States, United Kingdom, many countries in the European Union (Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden), Canada, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan can now sign up to Coinbase and start earning immediately upon ID verification and meeting Earn eligibility criteria. Users in other countries where Coinbase is available can get verified and then join a waitlist to become eligible for Coinbase Earn. To see our full list of eligibility criteria, please click here.
The rationale behind Coinbase Earn is that as we progress from mining cryptocurrency to buying it to earning it, we open up new opportunities for people to learn about blockchain technology. With this international expansion, anyone with a smartphone in a supported country can now earn crypto while they learn about crypto just by setting up a free Coinbase account. This means millions more people now have a trusted, safe, and legal bridge to the cryptoeconomy — even if they don’t have a credit card or bank account with which to buy cryptocurrency.
To start earning crypto, check out a Coinbase Earn page like coinbase.com/earn/stellar.
Coinbase Earn now allows users in 100+ countries to earn their share of $100M+ in cryptocurrency was originally published in The Coinbase Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
