Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

Since spinning off from eBay and going public for a second time in 2015, PayPal has expanded its reach well beyond that one digital marketplace to more than 30 million merchants worldwide. When we have partnerships with these merchants they’re trusted brands, so consumers can feel good about shopping with those brands.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

So-called “negative option” services are a controversial yet time-tested method of doing business. Under this model, a customer signs up for a subscription service, typically as part of a free trial offer. The customer is then charged on an ongoing basis unless they explicitly cancel the service in question.

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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. That included rebuilding its online facilities to meet customers’ expectations and exemplify great customer service. It drops them straight back into the completed cart.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

The digital wallet will be managed by Early Warning Services (EWS) , the company that operates Zelle, but will operate separately from Zelle. The other four owners in the EWS/Zelle venture include Capital One Financial , PNC Financial Services Group , U.S. By 2025, digital wallets are expected to account for 52.5%

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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

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. We’re committed to supporting merchants as they navigate these complexities of global expansion.

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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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Small Biz Trends

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Amazon Pay is a fast and easy way to purchase products and services. Customers can buy things from your e-commerce online storefronts and/or website using the data stored in their Amazon account. Amazon Pay is a service customers can use. Or through Alexa and their payment methods in their Amazon.com accounts.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

Shopify’s new POS Go + Terminal released this week is billed as “connected hardware to achieve smoother sales” by ensuring hardware and software work together to create effortless checkouts for retailers everywhere they sell – whether online or offline. per cent uptime across the Shopify platform.

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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. million websites globally rely on PayPal for the checkout and payment process, generating 15.4

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Taken together, these merchant signings represent thousands of new places that now accept American Express Card payments. More locations than ever before in the UK now accept American Express Card payments meaning our merchants are benefitting from welcoming our loyal and high-spending Cardmembers through their doors.”

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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. Creating backend efficiencies.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2021

The pandemic accelerated not just ecommerce but also digital payment methods: digital wallets reached 29.3% The wallets are expected to unseat credit cards as the preferred online payment method in the coming years, according to the FIS Global Payments Report 2021. Digital wallet usage is expected to account for 40.5%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

With the increase of mobile wallets and more consumers hopping on the e-gift card bandwagon, merchants must practice a heightened sense of vigilance around issues of gift card fraud. Here’s some insight as to how merchants and consumers can avoid scams and gift card fraud: Consumer vs. Merchant. billion online with U.S.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Meta and Amazon have quietly debuted a new closed-loop social commerce experience that allows Facebook and Instagram users to link their social media accounts to Amazon so they can make purchases directly in-platform. And Meta, of course, gets something out of the deal as well, in the form of more information to aid its advertising efforts.

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365 Retail

MARCH 7, 2023

Newpay, a digital credit account that spreads the cost of online purchases, has partnered with THG to offer its customers a flexible and regulated way to pay at checkout. Newpay has been fully integrated into the checkout experience, offering seamless access to credit for customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

-based online sellers” are reportedly participating in the beta test of Buy Direct, but a source told Business Insider that Microsoft hopes the service will drive $25 million in gross merchandising value (GMV) by fiscal 2023, which ends June 30, 2023. Bing accounts for approximately 25% of total monthly search volume in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 4, 2021

and one with significant appeal to small merchants seeking commerce outcomes), it has created interesting new bedfellows such as Google and Shopify.”. But making it easier for merchants to list their products on Google is only the first step. “As Amazon has emerged as the third-largest digital advertising platform in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

That, of course, is the key to Wish’s business model — by connecting international consumers directly with manufacturers (most of them Chinese, although diversifying the company’s merchant base is one of the company’s key turnaround pillars), customers can get products for dirt cheap. Doubling down on merchants outside of China.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

This was especially evident on Black Friday, when many merchants offered steep markdowns to compete. Specifically, bot operators continue to siphon retailer profits with increasingly sophisticated automated threats — including account takeover, web and API scraping and more. Bad Bots are Siphoning Profits.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In 2020, consumers spent approximately $630 billion on online shopping, and merchants lost $12 billion to fraud. Account takeover fraud, which is driven by impostor scams, increased by 50%, with no signs of slowing down in 2021. K eep bots out of your customers’ accounts and checkout. Millennials.

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Store Growers

APRIL 1, 2022

Having your Google Merchant Center account suspended can be a death sentence for your business. Because if you can’t use Merchant Center, it also means you won’t be able to use Google Shopping. Most of the time, they are also clueless as to why their account got suspended. How To Fix Google Merchant Center Suspensions.

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Independent Retailer

JULY 15, 2021

“We recognize that there is a big challenge to selling CBD products, because a significant number of credit card processing companies refuse to process for CBD retailers, making many CBD sales a less-than-desirable, cash-only purchase. NRS PAY happily services credit card transactions through its credit card processing programs.

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Independent Retailer

JUNE 23, 2022

Times are tough, especially for businesses struggling to stay afloat with the increased expenses from credit card processing companies. National Retail Solutions (NRS) offers NRS PAY credit card processing to help merchants with this problem. If a merchant processes lower volume, FeeBU$TER carries one flat monthly fee of $49.95

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

ecommerce merchants pulled in $10.8 That includes frictionless payments and checkout and fast shipping options. This is where merchants’ needs can collide with one of the potential downsides of flash sales: fraud. However, flash sales can provide cover for fraudsters in a few ways that merchants need to be aware of.

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Retail Minded

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Contributed by Steve Villegas VP, Head of Payment Partnerships for North America. While merchants cannot control offline challenges like supply chain disruption or last-mile delivery issues, they can (and must) shape the digital environment and ensure a seamless checkout process.

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Independent Retailer

AUGUST 29, 2022

BNPL is a great payment option, especially with the holiday season coming up so consumers do not have to front the entire amount at the time of purchase. BNPL is a great payment option, especially with the holiday season coming up so consumers do not have to front the entire amount at the time of purchase.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

PoS systems are becoming essential for managing everyday commercial operations, from simple payment processing to inventory management and sales analytics in retail companies. Apart from cash, modern PoS systems should allow credit card and mobile wallet payments, as well as those made online in web stores.

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Store Growers

MAY 24, 2023

With the shipping attributes, Google Merchant Center covers the insurance costs and specific costs of different shipping carriers, which can be a bit higher than expected, especially if a customer makes a cross-border order. Merchants use this attribute to provide data about the shipping cost and speed for all their products.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2022

All of these retailers succeed by building hype around the launch, priming their loyal customers to place their order as soon as the product or service is released. Below, we examine reseller tactics and their potential damage to merchants. The merchant-consumer relationship is built on trust. Bots are available to rent.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2022

Most buy now, pay later offers are interest- and fee-free, unless customers miss a payment. consumers say they have used a buy now, pay later service, according to a recent study from The Ascent, a Motley Fool service. By 2025, buy now, pay later is projected to account for 1.6% ($941 billion ) of global POS transaction value.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Klarna has launched a new browser extension that enables consumers shopping on desktop computers to access its buy now, pay later service at any online store, even if the retailer is not a Klarna partner. . Despite the recent growth in mobile shopping, desktop still accounts for 32% of all ecommerce traffic, according to SaleCycle.

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Store Growers

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The Google Merchant Center Promotions program allows you to do exactly that. What are Google Merchant Center Promotions? Merchant Promotions is a Google Merchant Center program that lets online advertisers show their promotions in their Shopping Ads. Merchant Promotions are exclusively limited to Shopping Ads.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2021

In 2018, 151 million conventional (non-bot) attacks were observed, and of these, 91 million were directed at online merchants. Others are so brazen that they use click-and-collect services in the branches of omnichannel stores, to pick up goods that they’ve paid for online with credit card credentials they’ve stolen. Machine Learning.

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A1 Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Mollie reveals that economically ‘concerned’ consumers are relying more on social media, BNPL, and discounts when shopping online but expect to spend more in the next year Mollie , one of the fastest growing financial service providers in Europe, today unveiled findings from its second annual European Ecommerce Report.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

To meet the growing needs of their clients during Covid, Merchgirls created a custom pick and pack process that elevated the offering from B2B to B2C on a mass scale. Expert shipping services for clients of all sizes. Merchgirls is a creative agency, focusing on creating merchandise that’s twice as nice for the broader market.

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