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Digital Revolving Credit: A Potentially More Responsible Financing Option than BNPL

Retail TouchPoints

Digital revolving credit is an ecommerce financing option that allows users to instantly open a revolving line of credit in the shopping cart that can be used and reused repeatedly over a lifetime. This is in comparison to BNPL’s payment option, which finances individual purchases with separate fixed-term installment loans.

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Retail and Healthcare: A Relationship that Today’s Technology can Promote, Strengthen and Expand

Retail TouchPoints

Bespoke statement designs and calls to action also promote faster payments. This personalized approach communicates an important “meta message” to customers: “We understand you and want to make it easy to engage with us for healthcare services.” For example, some billing balances may be higher due to more complicated medical services.

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How digital payments can help businesses lead in customer experience

Inside Retail

As Australians adopt the latest digital payment methods, the future of frictionless, automated transactions will offer a completely new customer experience. Ultimately, the risk for businesses lies in missing out on the significant efficiency and customer experience benefits that digital businesses will offer,” concludes Yee.

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Guest Post: 5 Reasons Why Customer Experience is the Pulse of Every Business

Hyken

This week we feature an article by Jafar Sadhik, a digital marketer in the fields of SaaS tools, data management, and finance management. He writes about how customer experience can determine the lifeline of a business. It is the volume of customers that makes the difference to a considerable extent.

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Retailers can Encourage Responsible Use of BNPL with These 3 Methods

Retail TouchPoints

However, the winds of change are blowing: as inflation and interest rates continue to climb, BNPL is shedding its reputation for luxury spending and becoming a financing solution for necessary expenses, such as car repair, healthcare, fridge and other essential appliance repair. And the merchant tends to absorb the cost of this transaction.

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Amazon Appoints Insider as CEO of Worldwide Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Herrington joined Amazon as VP of Consumables in 2005, launched Amazon Fresh in 2007 and was promoted to SVP of Consumables in 2014. Felton has worked for nearly 18 years in Amazon’s retail and operations finance leadership. Another company veteran, John Felton, will now lead the company’s operations.

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Four Ways Ecommerce Brands can Overcome the Overstock of Excess Inventory

Retail TouchPoints

This means the way consumers shop has drastically changed as new financing options rise in popularity. Advanced marketers will focus on new forms of data to understand ways to surgically offer their incentives, instead of sitewide promotions that may reduce their margins. Offer bundles to boost order values.