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Free Shipping and Other Perks Can Turn Casual Subscribers Into Loyal Customers
January 03, 2024

People make resolutions in the new year and companies, including subscription-based firms, review their prices. Amazon Prime, Disney+ and Netflix, for example, either increased their prices in late 2023 or are about to increase them in early 2024. This will test the loyalty of some...

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Top-Performing Subscription Merchants Recover 60% of Failed Payments
December 28, 2023

Subscription companies lose an average of 9% of sales to failed payments. However, the top-performing merchants recover 60% of failed payments, saving ones that would have otherwise been lost, according to “The State of Subscription Business: Best Practices and Business Performance Drivers,” a PYMNTS and FlexPay collaboration....

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Convenience Drives Retail Subscription Adoption in Q4
December 28, 2023

With convenience emerging as the primary motivation for retail subscription adoption, retailers are challenged to adapt their strategies to meet customer expectations and capitalize on this growing trend. By the Numbers The December installment of the Decision Guide report, “The Retail Subscription Features That Make...

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Top-Performing Subscription Merchants Let Their Customers Take a Break
December 27, 2023

Top-performing retail subscription merchants offer their customers the option to take a step back, while merchants that do not provide this kind of flexibility tend to struggle. By the Numbers The December installment of the Decision Guide report, “The Retail Subscription Features That Make Top-Performing...

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6 in 10 Subscription Merchants Drive Conversion With ‘Buy Buttons’
December 22, 2023

As subscription merchants look to reduce transaction friction to increase conversion, the majority now offer “buy buttons.” By the Numbers The study “The Subscription Commerce Readiness Report: The Loyalty Factor,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and sticky.io collaboration, was based on a survey of 200 subscription commerce...

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Subscription Merchants Tap Audiobooks to Drive Consumer Loyalty
December 20, 2023

As businesses compete for subscribers’ long-term loyalty, key players are increasingly leveraging audiobooks to keep customers coming back. Take, for instance, Spotify, which announced last month the addition of more than 200,000 audiobooks for its Premium subscribers, with 15 hours of listening included in the...

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SiriusXM Sued Over ‘Burdensome’ Cancellation Process by NY AG
December 20, 2023

A new lawsuit accuses SiriusXM of making it too hard for customers to cancel subscriptions. The suit, filed against the satellite radio service Wednesday (Dec. 20) by the New York attorney general, said SiriusXM maintains a “deliberately long and burdensome” cancellation process. According to a news release, the...

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Retail Merchants Focus on Loyal Subscribers to Shore Up Sales
December 20, 2023

In the last two years, due to persistent inflation and consumers returning to normal life, retail product subscriptions have steadily decreased from pandemic boom times to reach levels equivalent to 2019. This sharp correction in demand is common across all retail categories. To combat cancellations,...

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High-Income Consumers Tap Pay-by-Bank Payments for Subscription Bills
December 19, 2023

Account-to-account (A2A) payments are catching on for subscriptions, especially among high-income consumers. By the Numbers The report “Tracking the Digital Payments Takeover: Consumer Familiarity Controls Account-to-Account Payment Growth,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and AWS collaboration, drew from a survey of more than 3,300 U.S. consumers in...