Inside Retail

MARCH 24, 2024

ShipStation, a global leading provider of shipping software solutions, has announced its continued investment in the Australian market. In addition to its commitment to the Australian market, ShipStation will introduce a series of new capabilities this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Just in the time for the holiday shopping season, Google is debuting new features to help merchants capture consumers’ attention in search results, including a small business “tag,” generative AI tools for product imagery and a more detailed business information module in search results. The tools will be available first to U.S.

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365 Retail

MAY 17, 2022

Axerve, Payment Partner to Grow, specialising in creating accessible and frictionless payment solutions for Ecommerce and physical sales, today announces the release of a new white paper, ‘ New technologies and trends in digital payments in 2022 ’. Payment orchestration is a key tool for managing this increased complexity.

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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

APRIL 5, 2021

It has been a year of momentous change for the payments industry. Years of transformation transpired in just a few months with rapid shifts in both consumer behaviors and merchant expectations for e-commerce. And how will permanently altered consumer behaviors shape online payment preferences?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2022

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, retailers are now facing the challenge of capturing and maintaining market share and keeping their customers loyal. The good news is that since its global popularization in 2020, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) has become a real game-changer for merchants looking to boost their business.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2023

Financial services and POS solution Square has launched a new consumer-facing app that lets customers search, discover and book appointments with beauty and personal care professionals. The Square Go app, available for free for both consumers and businesses, is currently available in the U.S. for iOS devices.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

According to Aussie-born global fintech Airwallex – which last month launched its State of Cross-border eCommerce: Key Trends of 2024 Report – a whopping 54 per cent of global consumers are expected to increase their international online spending over the next six to 12 months. trillion by 2030.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2021

Woolworths is launching its own stand-alone payments platform, Wpay, which will power payments inside and outside its group of businesses, and further extends the group into the retail ecosystem in Australia. It’s an exciting time in the world of payments with new technology driving better experiences for consumers,” Monnington said.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Photo courtesy of TikTok Shop While the ecommerce functionality has been available to at least some users since late last year, today marks the service’s debut to the wider TikTok community, and to say that both consumers and brands have been eagerly anticipating this development might be an understatement. and managed by the U.S.

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A1 Retail

AUGUST 26, 2021

By Stephane Druet, SVP of Product & Marketing CellPoint Digital. 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. The ecommerce market saw unprecedented growth as a result of the pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2024

I’ll never forget my 40th birthday trip to Istanbul when the hotel staff not only wished me a happy birthday when I checked in, but the general manager surprised me with a cake, champagne and a handwritten note with 40 things to do in Istanbul. But now consumers want intangible benefits, including tailored experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

Today’s consumers move across digital, physical and social platforms with ease, switching from browsing, researching and buying in seconds. As shopping journeys become increasingly complex, it’s harder for brands to put themselves in front of their consumers at exactly the right moment. Shopping is everywhere.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

We’re experimenting with a virtual consumer engagement tool where you can ask questions in a really human way to discover [products]. We also see AI giving us some really interesting opportunities within our guest services areas, to bring in more data and insights when customers contact us.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2020

E-Commerce spending has grown by more than 30% , cementing consumer expectations for flexibility, choice and convenience. While we shouldn’t expect online sales to remain at their peak levels when the safety risks of in-person shopping dissipate, merchants cannot hope to weather the storm and return to business as usual. And the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With the start of another year in the new normal, retailers are still questioning how to best engage with consumers in the post-pandemic world. In the past two years, consumers’ expectations and preferences have vastly changed. If one thing has become clear during the last two years, it’s that consumers value options for convenience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 28, 2024

Last week Google announced a sweeping slate of product updates across its search, shopping and marketing interfaces at Google Marketing Live (GML), which followed an equally expansive set of updates from the Google I/O conference for developers the previous week.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 16, 2023

Australia’s e-commerce boom has given rise to a healthy ecosystem of online shopping merchants commanding a sizable user base of local consumers – many of whom managed to weather the pandemic by riding a surge of digital sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2021

Digitization has afforded retailers access to new markets and more consumers. On the other side of the purchase, consumers now have access to brands across the globe — and the appetite to try new things through online experiences. The savvier the customer, the more agile merchants need to be to remain relevant.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This, however, is a different consumer. With such habits, the smallest friction in the purchase journey can leave a sour taste in the consumer’s mouth. Now more than ever, the finer details of a business, such as the payment terminal, can be the difference between a good and an average shopping experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Technological innovations have optimized and enhanced almost all areas of the retail organization, from marketing to fulfillment, but the process of bringing products to market has been markedly slower to advance. But these legacy processes don’t work as well as they once did, and COVID made that fact hard to ignore. “A

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

Shopback’s decision to terminate its buy now pay later (BNPL) service in Malaysia and Singapore has sparked discussions and raised pertinent questions about the future of digital payment solutions in the region. For merchants, it means increasing basket sizes, which makes it a win-win situation for all involved,” he opined.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2022

Less than five years ago, many consumers wouldn’t have heard of buy now pay later (BNPL). per cent) are now aware of BNPL services, overtaking traditional online payment platforms like Paypal, Visa and Western Union, according to Roy Morgan’s Digital Payments Report last year. million Australians (15.7

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

In an era of fierce competition to attract consumers’ tightening budgets, customer experience has become the key edge retailers can deploy to stand above the competition. Merchants on Shopify POS can now design the in-store experiences that reflect their brand best without having to sacrifice reliability.”

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Small Biz Trends

AUGUST 23, 2022

Shopify is trying to bring small businesses together with Shopify Collabs, which aims to make it simple for creators to monetize while giving merchants a new sales and marketing channel. Shopify Collabs Wants to Connect Small Business Merchants and Creators. Using Shopify Collabs for Relationship Management.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

However, experts note that in times of economic volatility and fast-changing consumer behaviors, brands need to think strategically about their path to global growth. Expanding internationally takes time, effort and money, which means leadership teams need to be thoughtful about which markets they enter.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2022

Automate your shipping process. Your shipping strategy directly impacts consumer satisfaction and their decision to purchase again in the future. In fact, 70 per cent of consumers say a poor delivery experience negatively impacts their impression of the retailer, rather than the carrier. Take advantage of shipping discounts.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 21, 2022

For the last 25 years, online marketplaces such as Etsy, Mercado Libre and Rakuten have been the go-to sources for consumers buying physical goods from creators. So how do online marketplaces begin fortifying their capabilities around foreign exchange, fraud and payments to cater to their clients’ evolving needs?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Whether it was inspiration from this “summer of sport” or keeping up with the ever-changing weather, the increasing unpredictability of consumers’ shopping habits was on display this summer. The cost-of-living crisis is undoubtedly driving buying decisions, so simplifying the consumer journey is essential for closing the sale.

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A1 Retail

JUNE 29, 2021

By David Jeffrey, Director of Product, Barclaycard Payments. The latest data from Barclaycard Payments shows that 50 percent of our transactions now come through ecommerce, up from 40 percent pre-pandemic. The remarkable rise of digital wallets and payment services. per cent to six per cent – between 2019 and 2020.

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Retail Focus

MAY 8, 2024

Having formerly only served the largest apparel retailers and brands in the world, True Fit has democratised its Fashion Genome to bring the benefit of AI size and fit to the full market. It is now seeing a 108% MoM growth rate in adoption by Shopify brands and is on trajectory to implement the solution within 2,000+ merchants in 2024.

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Mass Relators

MARCH 28, 2024

The report, based on a commissioned survey conducted by Forrester Consulting, shows that merchants in the U.S. As digital services become more prevalent in North America and daily life becomes increasingly digitized, cybercriminals find more opportunities to exploit both consumers and businesses. for every $1 of fraud.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Brands and retailers are feeling mounting pressure — from consumers, shareholders and even their boards — to be more inclusive. Because of efforts to address this mismatch of product and real-world sizing, Coresight Research estimates that the value of the extended-size market for women will grow to $32.3 billion in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite having just officially begun, this holiday shopping season already is marked by supply chain disruption, persistent inflation and mixed consumer confidence. And just like last year, it looks like consumers will respond by turning to ecommerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 8, 2023

pullback in online spending contributed to a 2% year-over-year drop globally, although growth rates remained higher in smaller markets like the Middle East and Africa, at 21% , and in Latin America, which saw 7% growth. “If And how are you giving them a value-added product or service for being loyal to you?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 16, 2022

are among a consortium of consumer groups from nine countries calling for more regulation of the buy now, pay later (BNPL) industry. The group of 11 consumer groups also includes Financial Counselling Australia and the Consumers Federation of Australia, along with organisations from New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark and Korea.

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