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Strivve, Inc. is excited to announce our partnership with Alkami to provide its CardUpdatr™ App to Financial Institutions nationwide. The issuer-branded experience updates the default payment method at e-commerce shopping and bill payment sites with the issuer’s credit or debit cards in real-time. The solution drives an immediate increase in online card circulation, transaction volume, and brand loyalty. This partnership extends CardUpdatr’s reach to Alkami’s customers. By adding CardUpdatr functionality, [...]

Check out what is new with CardUpdatr! Since launching with our first customers, we have learned a lot about how to create the best experience for members and cardholders to place our FI partners cards as the default payment method on sites like Amazon, Netflix, Venmo etc. In our last update, we told you about our Embedded CardUpdatr option. With just a few lines of code, our customers can now [...]

We all know that more people are shopping online to limit exposure due to COVID-19 concerns and guidelines. In addition to consumers making the shift to online purchases, the financial industry has seen other interesting behavior shifts due to the pandemic. Visa predicts the crisis will drive a 100 billion dollar annual shift from credit card to debit cards1. “‘There’s a consumer psyche of sort of not spending someone else’s [...]

CardUpdatr is the best way for cardholders to place credit and debit cards as a default payment method where they shop and pay online. Why did we add the embedded option to CardUpdatr?  We are constantly “strivving” to make the best experience for cardholders that simultaneously benefits our financial institution partners. Using our original method, CardUpdatr is delivered in a vanity URL and the cardholder is navigated to a separate [...]

If you follow Strivve you know that COVID-19 is top of mind for us right now ; we are taking the necessary steps ourselves to remain healthy and safe.  Strive isn’t a large company, but even we have felt the strain of having to shift processes that were built with the assumption of bodies in chairs and rework them to be able to be done (and done well) remotely.  It [...]

As with all major events including the current outbreak of COVID-19, there is a change in behavior among the population. The Nielsen Company has produced an intriguing article, KEY CONSUMER BEHAVIOR THRESHOLDS IDENTIFIED AS THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK EVOLVES, and has discovered 6 behavior thresholds. Understanding these consumer behaviors is important. In order to provide assistance to your cardholders, you must understand how they behave during and after the shift.  As [...]