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Corporate
Solidgate and Airwallex partner to localize acquiring across global high-demand markets
Solidgate merchants expanding into high-demand markets worldwide can now route payments through Airwallex directly within their existing orchestration setup.
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Payments 101
Ecommerce payment processing: How to optimize for revenue in 2026
Ecommerce payment processing shapes your approval rates, costs, and market reach. Know how to get more out of it as your business grows.
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Payments 101
Cross-border payments: A merchant's guide to costs, challenges, and performance
Cross-border payments tend to cost more, convert less, and decline more often than domestic ones until you know which levers to pull.
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Payments 101
Subscription payment processing: A complete guide for merchants
Subscription payment processing is more than a scheduled charge – it's the infrastructure that determines whether renewals succeed, credentials stay current, and failed payments get recovered.
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Corporate
Solidgate partners with Klarna to bring flexible payments to merchants across Europe
The integration gives merchants on Solidgate's platform direct access to Klarna's flexible ways to pay, including Pay in Full, interest-free installments, and longer-term financing, at checkout, with no additional setup required.
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Payments 101
Multiple payment providers: When to add and how to run them
More providers, better rates, more markets. Here's when a multi-PSP strategy pays off and how orchestration makes it manageable.
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Product
Our top product updates: From faster operations to easier automation and more flexibility
See what we shipped on Solidgate in July and August: global card payouts, a new connector, smarter retries, and more.
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Payments 101
What is involuntary churn and how to reduce it
Failed payments are behind more subscription churn than most businesses realize – and most of it is recoverable.
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Payments 101
How to accept subscription payments: A merchant’s guide
From choosing a processor to configuring billing cycles and recovering failed payments – everything you need to start accepting subscription payments and keep them performing.
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Industry
5 best Primer alternatives to consider in 2026
5 Primer alternatives compared. Find the right fit for your payment stack.
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Industry
PSD3 updates 2026: What's confirmed so far, and what to prepare for now
PSD3 isn't law yet, but it's close. Here's what to know before the final text lands.
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Corporate
BLIK Recurring and BLIK Pay Later via Solidgate: More ways to get paid in Poland
Solidgate merchants in Poland can now offer BLIK Recurring and BLIK Pay Later, opening up subscription revenue and higher-value orders inside the setup they already run.
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Payments 101
Dunning management: How subscription businesses recover failed payments
Failed card payments drive half of subscription churn – and most of those failures are recoverable with the right dunning process in place.
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Payments 101
Cascading payments: How to recover declined transactions automatically
A declined transaction isn't always a lost customer – the same card often approves through a different provider moments later.
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Industry
How to spot revenue leakage you didn't know you had
Bozhena Labinska, Merchant Integrations Lead at Solidgate, and Tom Chmielewski, VP of EMEA & APAC at Testlio, recently sat down for a joint webinar on the payment failures that never trigger an alert. Here's what to check before your next payment method launch.
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Industry
Mastercard GMAP: Launching its own version of VAMP
Mastercard is launching GMAP in April 2027. Know the thresholds, what triggers identification, and how to stay clear before enforcement starts.
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Corporate
Solidgate is proud to announce a new strategic agreement with Discover® Network and Diners Club International®
This collaboration enables Discover® Network and Diners Club International ® card acceptance for Solidgate merchants globally.
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Payments 101
What is a payment network? A guide to types, mechanics, and costs
Every card swipe, bank transfer, and digital wallet payment runs on a network. Which one you're on – and how well you're connected to it – determines your costs and approval rates.
How to reduce payment processing costs — -27% processing costs compared to the previous month
Payments 101
How to reduce payment processing costs: 8 proven strategies
Here's what actually moves your effective processing rate – and what doesn't.
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Product
Our top product updates: Four new connectors, new payment methods, and custom roles
Two months of updates: better card routing, local payment updates across Europe, the Nordics, and Brazil, new options for Polish merchants, and tools to give your teams more control.
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Payments 101
Cart abandonment: Rates, causes, and what actually reduces it
Seven in ten online carts get abandoned before checkout. Here's what the number actually means, what drives it, and where the real recovery opportunity sits.
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Payments 101
Subscription billing automation: What to automate and how
Billing automation goes deeper than invoices and plan changes. Here's what it actually covers and how to build it in the right order.
Vendor-agnostic payments setup allows merchants to connect multiple PSPs simultaneously.
Payments 101
Vendor agnostic payments: What merchants need to know
Your payment stack works – until scale, new markets, or a contract renewal exposes how much control one provider actually has. Here’s what vendor-agnostic payments look like in practice.
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Corporate
Solidgate is helping carVertical scale payments across EEA markets
Solidgate has partnered with carVertical, the European vehicle history platform trusted by over 6 million used-car buyers across 36 countries.