Elavon and PPRO Group have announced a partnership to offer international alternative payment methods to Elavon’s customers across Europe to expand their global reach.
The partnership with PPRO, a cross-border e-payment specialist, strengthens Elavon’s existing European acquiring proposition, allowing its customers’ shoppers to choose their preferred local payment method when shopping online including direct debit, bank transfers, cash-based e-payments and e-wallets. Elavon provides a single integration and customer service experience for both domestic and international payments processing. Elavon’s customers will now be able to add more than 50 preferred local and international payment methods to ensure they get the best transaction conversion rates.
Boston Consulting Group estimates that by 2025, annual global cross-border eCommerce revenues could increase to between $250 billion and $350 billion—up from about $80 billion in 2014. PPRO Group’s recent research, conducted in cooperation with Edgar, Dunn and Company, reveals that in many markets 50% or more of existing online transactions use local payment methods, sometimes even unfamiliar to Western and global companies.
In the UK, for example, consumers are very card centric with cards accounting for 52% of all eCommerce transactions in 2017, but this isn’t the case for eCommerce markets overseas. In Germany, card payments only account for 12% of eCommerce payments with 51% of consumers preferring bank transfers, whereas in China 49% of eCommerce payments are via e-wallets.
Hannah Fitzsimons, General Manager for Elavon Europe comments: “Global cross-border eCommerce revenues are increasing rapidly, and alternative payment methods are becoming a must have for retailers as they strive to compete. Taking local payment trends into account is vital for our customers as they need to ensure their shoppers can pay using their preferred local payment method to get the best payment conversion rates. We are excited to be partnering with PPRO, an expert in APMs, to provide the largest selection of payment options for our customers so their customers can shop seamlessly online across borders.” Ronnie d’Arienzo, PPRO’s Chief Sales Officer comments:
“Merchants must be aware of the local payment preferences in different countries to meet their customers’ needs and reap the rewards of cross border sales. There is life beyond credit cards. Customers want to use their preferred payment methods, otherwise they will simply shop elsewhere. We are really pleased to be in partnership with Elavon to help its customers provide local and international payment methods to their cross-border customers and ultimately become global retailers.”
About Elavon
Elavon is wholly owned by U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest bank in the United States, and provides end-to-end payment processing solutions and services to more than 1.3 million customers in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico. As the leading provider for airlines and a top five provider in hospitality, healthcare, retail, and public sector/education, Elavon’s innovative payment solutions are designed to solve pain points for businesses from small to enterprise-sized.
About PPRO Group
Cross-border e-payment specialist, PPRO Group, (PPRO) removes the complexity of international e-commerce payments by acquiring, collecting and processing an extensive range of alternative payments methods for Payment Service Providers (PSPs) under one contract, through one platform and one single integration. PPRO supports international payment methods across more than 100 countries, allowing PSPs to expand their merchants’ e-commerce reach, arrange hassle-free collection and achieve higher conversion rates.
PPRO also issues Visa and MasterCard consumer prepaid cards, under its own brand name VIABUY, and enables B2B prepaid cards, under its CROSSCARD and FLEETMONEY brands, which can be issued both physically and as virtual cards or NFC devices (as stickers).
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in London, PPRO is an EU-certified financial institute with an e-money license issued by the British regulatory body FCA. For more information, please visit