Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Why is payment orchestration suddenly getting so much attention? Payment orchestration is no longer optional. Surprisingly, how retailers manage and handle payments has not changed; it’s decisively stuck 20 years in the past. To ultimately transform, retailers need flexible, scalable and customizable payment infrastructure.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Sika Health — a payment solution that enables ecommerce merchants to accept Health Spending Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) payments — has launched a new marketplace where consumers can shop directly for HSA- and FSA-eligible products.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2021

Checkout experience platform Bolt has launched Bolt SSO Commerce, a single sign-on checkout experience. The platform offers shoppers one-click checkout across all retailers in the Bolt network, with the goal of letting retailers offer first-time shoppers a more personalized experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

Walmart has launched a new ecommerce site and customer experience designed specifically for small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and nonprofits. The aim of the Walmart Business platform is to “remove complexity in purchasing, lower costs and give our customers more opportunities to serve their customers and communities.”

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Small Biz Trends

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Customers can buy things from your e-commerce online storefronts and/or website using the data stored in their Amazon account. Or through Alexa and their payment methods in their Amazon.com accounts. Or through Alexa and their payment methods in their Amazon.com accounts. Integration for small business is easy.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2022

trillion in 2020 and is predicted to create revenue of roughly $18.57 For example, B2B buyers often prefer to pay by invoice over debit and credit cards, as it is a more beneficial payment method when making large or repeat purchases. A good payments partner should finance the trade credit you offer B2B buyers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has reportedly filed a lawsuit against one-click checkout service Bolt , claiming that the solution provider failed to deliver on promises in a contract related to the implementation of the technology, according to Bloomberg , The Business Journals and other media sources.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2022

Bold Commerce has launched the Bold Checkout: Buy Now solution. The tool gives brands an owned alternative to third-party digital wallets and payment options, including one-click functionality, directly from their own channels. Buy Now is designed to make any retailer-owned touch point shoppable.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 17, 2022

Your online checkout is an opportunity to give customers what they want, there and then. The ability to accept, process, protect, and recover payments are four things every business should have top of mind. Accepting payments. So it’s important that you’re offering relevant payment methods across all markets.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2022

But the payment method is already truly embedded in the digital economy and is not going anywhere, even if it is regulated. Let’s look at the conditions that were so favourable to this payment method, the inevitable regulations and consumer and media response. BNPL is disrupting credit and driving competition.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cybersecurity company Kasada recently revealed that cybercriminals have compromised more than 15,000 customer accounts of Mexican fast food chain Guzman y Gomez, liquor retailer Dan Murphy’s, streaming service Binge, home shopping network TVSN and Event Cinemas since November.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Consumers will be even more selective, payment flexibility and innovation will be vital, and new tools to boost online security will gain momentum. From budget-friendly options and making returns easy to rewards programs and payment options, every interaction can offer a reason to remain loyal.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

Currently, international revenue from Australian merchants amounts to roughly AD$18 billion, making up 29 per cent of transactions from the industry. Another factor that can trigger mass cart abandonments is a lack of payment options. To get started with Airwallex, sign up for a free account now. trillion by 2030.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 4, 2024

Removing friction from the checkout process and personalising the experience were some of the strategies for delivering results. This provided single-point access to switch on a broad array of payment methods like traditional cards, digital wallets, and Buy Now Pay Later options, and supported by fraud management services.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2020

To take its online presence to the next level and meet shoppers’ needs in the virtual world, CITY Furniture overhauled its ecommerce approach by building its own headless platform, designed to integrate with modular partner solutions as needed. All of this made us want to move away from the traditional, monolithic platform approach.”.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 3, 2023

Not only were dial-up connections painfully slow , but there was no secure way to make payments. PayPal created a platform allowing people to transfer money to each other without sharing any banking details. The company went from a peer-to-peer banking disruptor to THE trusted name in online payments. billion in 2015.

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Retail Minded

MARCH 30, 2023

In the competitive environment of e-commerce, most consumers expect businesses to offer them fast and easy checkout. These include lack of diverse payment options or non-responsive website layouts. Include Social Proof In Your Checkout Flow Social proof is a vital part of the checkout process.

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Small Biz Trends

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

If you’re a small business, freelancer, or just have an online side hustle, you’re going to feel the recent increase in fees from online payment platforms like PayPal and Venmo. And as these other online payment systems increase their fees, Square Online is keeping the same rates with more features.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

These types of gift card schemes consist of cybercriminals who use varying tactics to obtain and redeem gift cards that you (or your business) paid for. Gaining access to consumer accounts has increased, allowing fraudsters to purchase gifts on their dollar. These scams don’t typically require large payments.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Passwords are at the heart of the issue and account for 30% of all abandoned online purchases. Proper security is imperative to any business’ bottom line and the integrity of their brand, but how can that be achieved without increasing the burden on the end consumer? Enter passkeys.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2022

Unified commerce is essentially the integration of all data-driven channels of retail – customer and product data from both in-store and online – on a consolidated platform. it operates in silos and unconnected platforms. No more lines at checkouts. In a unified commerce world, queueing at checkout is a thing of the past.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

Mobile technology is transforming payments, making it easier, safer and more affordable for people to move and manage their money than ever before,” said Dan Schulman, President and CEO of PayPal at the time of the spinoff. For example, what you generally find in most checkouts [in a sector like grocery] are your standard Visa and Mastercard.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2022

Give Back-to-School Shoppers Alternative Payment Options. Regardless of your customers’ age demographic, it’s a smart idea to offer digital wallet payment options at checkout. This alternative form of payment was popular with all age groups in the survey, although the reasons for its popularity seem to vary by generation.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

This article reveals effective strategies to safeguard brands’ customers, reputation and revenue moving forward. Specifically, bot operators continue to siphon retailer profits with increasingly sophisticated automated threats — including account takeover, web and API scraping and more. Inflation and the Incredible Shrinking Margin.

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Cisco Retail

JULY 29, 2022

This is the third blog in a series on financial services where I investigate a few challenges of managing hybrid cloud operations in the payment application development arena. The evolution of electronic payment technology. The demand for just one provider’s services (PayPal) exemplifies the popularity of digital payment systems.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Even so, there are ways to satisfy both your security team and revenue team, provided you are able to leverage the correct tools inside your system. Whether your ecommerce storefront is an omnichannel model like BOPIS or just a simple Shopify page, managing card-not-present payments is a persistent challenge. Not true, though.

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Frank Mayer

JULY 30, 2021

teams with Alt36 on a market-ready self-service kiosk that offers a compliant digital payment solution for the cannabis sector. GRAFTON, WI – Alt36, a digital payments provider for the cannabis industry, has partnered with kiosk designer and manufacturer Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc. Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Meta unveiled a number of updates that will make easier for users to find, message and buy from businesses on its messaging platform WhatsApp at the first-ever WhatsApp Business Summit, which took place in Brazil on Nov. The ultimate goal is to roll the payment functionality out to other countries in the near future. “We

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Small Biz Trends

APRIL 15, 2021

Besides having a brick-and-mortar shop, going online to offer your products and services comes with lots of opportunities for your business. An eCommerce platform is a software application that helps businesses sell products and services online. This means users don’t have to buy web hosting or install software anywhere.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2020

To take its online presence to the next level and meet shoppers’ needs in the virtual world, CITY Furniture overhauled its ecommerce approach by building its own headless platform, designed to integrate with modular partner solutions as needed. All of this made us want to move away from the traditional, monolithic platform approach.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2023

The growth of online shopping, self-checkout systems, point-of-sale transactions and other digital processes has created numerous opportunities for attackers. Employing tactics ranging from social engineering to credit card skimming, criminals can attack anywhere along the supply chain, from payment system providers to customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 4, 2021

Despite its broad reach, Google is far behind established marketplaces such as Amazon , Walmart and eBay when it comes to ecommerce — which goes a long way in explaining the company’s recent flurry of new partnerships with ecommerce platforms including Shopify , WooCommerce , Square and GoDaddy. Google’s Stated Goal: Democratize Ecommerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

The move follows a similar trajectory at Google , which has been continuously adding more features to make itself central to the online shopping experience, including the recent debut of a new checkout flow. Certainly having more sellers and more products on its shopping platform should boost traffic and therefore advertising audiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Successful retail marketers are embedding their brands within the platforms and devices that are most popular with their customers. We’re seeing an influx of gaming platforms and brands embedding themselves within those platforms,” according to Schwartz. “We’re AI Leading The Transformation.

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A1 Retail

AUGUST 26, 2021

To do so effectively, however, retailers need to optimise their payments ecosystems now to put in place the right framework for expansion in the future. Consumers also became more open to experimenting with new payment methods, with many consumers saying they tried out a BNPL service last year.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This article delves into the evolving threat landscape, examining the impact of these disruptions on retail operations and exploring proactive measures for safeguarding businesses, customer data and reputations. A cyberattack that compromises customer personal information can diminish the trust consumers place in a brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Account takeover fraud, which is driven by impostor scams, increased by 50%, with no signs of slowing down in 2021. Scammers gather financial account information and government program ID numbers to take over accounts, divert funds and commit identity fraud. K eep bots out of your customers’ accounts and checkout.

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