Virtual events are here to stay. We’ve helped institutions like The HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, and non-profits like IVL create virtual events at scale and with impressive success. The HU saw over…
Stats: 4 apps replaced: Fonteva, Cvent, Attendify, and Eventbrite (in-progress) 700 person conference delivered with Blackthorn Mobile Check-in and My IAB 626 meetup requests facilitated at the Direct Brand Summit through the mobile…
How Can Businesses Stand Out and Inspire Customer Loyalty? In January 2020, when news of a novel coronavirus started to break, it was impossible to fathom the magnitude of impact it would have on…
Blackthorn Payments provides the deepest Salesforce and Stripe integration available on the Salesforce AppExchange. Because we’re a trusted, official partner to both Salesforce and Stripe, teams can feel safe knowing they’re using a solution that’s on…
Basic and Complex Subscription Billing Let’s face it; subscription models are often complex. Say you have 50 customers on subscription plan A, 75 on plan B, and 100 on plan C. How do you…
Businesses and organizations are looking at utilizing online events for the foreseeable future after canceling in-person events to combat the spread of COVID-19. While we know folks are dealing with more than just events…
Retail e-commerce sales are projected to make up almost 14% of total retail sales by 2021, more than doubling its contribution since 2012 (6%). But what you might find surprising is that most customers…
A major goal of any field service business is to scale as quickly as possible. But as your organization grows, you may struggle to keep up. Processes get more complicated and arduous, stifling your…
Plaid Integration: Let customers connect their bank accounts faster so you can get paid faster. Plaid makes it much easier to pay by simply and safely connecting bank account information, decreasing the need for…
What do all of the compliance acronyms mean? Millions of websites today still fall out of ADA, WCAG 2.1 & Section 508 Compliance. Wait what do all of those acronyms mean? In a nutshell,…
Brief Overview of SCA SCA or Strong Customer Authentication, is a requirement of Europe’s revised Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) mandate to increase security and minimize fraud risk around electronic payments. PSD2 aims to…
Written by: Kristen Hicks, VP of Revenue Operations at Blackthorn.io, and former Midwest College Director of Marketing and Communications. If you’re in higher ed marketing, you’ve probably seen a flurry of emails and LinkedIn…
Weâ„¢re getting a lot of inquiries to have a ËœBilling Portalâ„¢ run out of Salesforce Communities. There are a number of approaches to achieving this. Many can be done with our app, Blackthorn…
Hear from Diane Biesecker, Director of I.T. at University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy on how they use Blackthorn Events to streamline all of their in-person, virtual,…
The rapid rise of digital banking across the global economy has made securing transactions and protecting consumers a growing priority. As payment fraud increases, with global losses projected to reach a staggering…