INSIGHTS CSG Forte Insights is a collection of industry news and perspectives to help navigate the payments landscape. BY CATEGORY BY TAG Industry Business Education Products Integrated Partners Tips Merchants Security News Trends Resources CSG FORTE RANKS 1ST IN PAYMENT GATEWAY PERFORMANCE FOR H1 2021 At CSG Forte, we continuously strive to improve the ways we make payments smarter, faster and scalable. One area of focus is our payments gateway. Over the past year, we’ve looked at several ways to make our platform, which is fueled by modern APIs and RESTful architecture, perform even better. A recent Gateway Enterprise Metrics […] SCALING DIGITAL PAYMENTS SMARTER AND GROWING BUSINESSES FASTER WITH CSG FORTE From the renewed emphasis on contactless commerce to the promise of real-time payments, the business of facilitating transactions for goods and services is as hot a subsector of fintech as any other. To this end, we caught up with Jeff Kump, Head of Payments for recently rebranded CSG Forte, a unified payments platform based in Allen, […] PAYMENT BASICS: NSF RE-PRESENTMENT What is NSF? NSF stands for “non-sufficient funds.” An NSF check is a returned check. This means the bank has refused to honor the check because there isn’t enough money in the account to cover it. These are often also simply called bad or bounced checks. What happens when an NSF check is written? When […] 4 REASONS YOU NEED A SCALABLE PAYMENT PLATFORM Payment platforms are often rigorously designed for a number of factors, including security, speed, reliability, and more – but one of the most integral factors for any payment platform isn’t what you may think – it’s scalability. What makes a platform scalable is its ability to handle oncoming work that grows and develops. Similar to […] THE BENEFITS OF REST API A RESTful web service or API is a type of application program interface that uses HTTP requests and is based on “representational state transfer” (REST) technology. Application program interface, or API, is code that sets the uniform standard for how a developer writes a program that needs to request something between operating systems or applications. […] WHAT’S A PAYMENT CHANNEL? Since all of our recent chatter about omni-channel is centered on multiple channels, here’s a quick breakdown on payment channels and what we offer. A payment channel is basically any way that a customer might make a payment or anywhere that you (as a merchant) might accept a payment. This is slightly different from retail […] LOAD MORE GET IN TOUCH Want to learn more about how CSG Forte can improve your payment processing? CONTACT US WHY CSG FORTE INDUSTRIES ABOUT CSG FORTE SUPPORT PAYMENTS PLATFORM CUSTOMER STORIES DEVELOPERS PRIVACY Contact Us Login © CSG Forte CSG Forte Payments, Inc. is a registered ISO of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Concord, CA NMLS # 1986669.