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AI Agents Bring Shoppers, but Merchants Must Close the Sale
Artificial Intelligence // October 06, 2026

Watch more: The Digital Shift With Visa’s Pavan HS Artificial intelligence shopping agents are creating a new kind of customer at the merchant’s front door: software that may know what a consumer wants, yet arrives without many of the signals merchants have learned to trust....

CPG Brands Rank Checkout as Top Promotions Priority, but Budgets Lag
Checkout Conversion // September 28, 2026

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands have identified a checkout capability they want. The spending to build it has yet to follow. Fifty two percent of CPG brands and manufacturers say an embedded, automatic smart tool at checkout would most improve their promotional capabilities, according to...

Pop-Up Stores Put Retail Technology on the Clock
Retail // September 23, 2026

Like clockwork, the season of temporary retail, in the form of pop-up stores, is here. Spirit Halloween is opening more than 1,550 seasonal stores across North America this year.  Other retailers are doing the same thing on a smaller scale. Hallmark plans a limited-time holiday...

Gen Z Hands Merchants a Checkout Ultimatum
Checkout Conversion // September 23, 2026

A merchant can spend to get a Gen Z shopper through the digital door, persuade them to choose a product, and still lose the customer over the payment methods displayed at checkout. Twenty-eight percent of Gen Z shoppers abandoned or would have abandoned an online...

Interviews & Exclusives
5 Ways Missing Payment Options Send Shoppers Elsewhere

October 07, 2026
A shopper who reaches checkout has already selected what to buy. For tens of millions of consumers, however, the available ways to pay can still determine whether the purchase happens. PYMNTS Intelligence’s “The Hidden Cost of Checkout Gaps: What 56 Million Abandoned Carts Mean for U.S. Merchants and How Agentic AI is Changing What Comes […]

AI Agents Bring Shoppers, but Merchants Must Close the Sale

October 06, 2026
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Visa’s Pavan HS Artificial intelligence shopping agents are creating a new kind of customer at the merchant’s front door: software that may know what...

CPG Brands Rank Checkout as Top Promotions Priority, but Budgets Lag

September 28, 2026
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands have identified a checkout capability they want. The spending to build it has yet to follow. Fifty two percent of CPG brands and manufacturers say...

Pop-Up Stores Put Retail Technology on the Clock

September 23, 2026
Like clockwork, the season of temporary retail, in the form of pop-up stores, is here. Spirit Halloween is opening more than 1,550 seasonal stores across North America this year.  Other...

Quick Reads
Yuno Speeds Merchant Access to Revolut Payments

September 04, 2026
Merchants can now use one Yuno connection to add Revolut’s biometric one-click checkout, Revolut Pay, as well as Revolut’s acquiring and gateway services, Yuno said in a Thursday (Sept. 3) press release. The offering is enabled by a new partnership of Yuno and Revolut Business, according to the release. The partnership integrates Revolut’s full payment […]

Google Wallet Moves Directly Into Retail Checkout Pages

June 04, 2026
Google expanded the capabilities of Google Pay to include direct checkout, a new experience that brings payment options from a customer’s Google Wallet to a retailer’s checkout page. The company...

Google Pay Adds Faster Checkout Tools for Android Apps

May 26, 2026
Google now enables developers to enhance Android checkout by leveraging users’ stored credentials, including payment and address, from Google Wallet. The company has done so by bringing Express checkout with...

Paysafe Targets US Growth With New Seller Force

February 18, 2026
Payments platform Paysafe expanded its program that provides training and support to independent sellers who want to build a career in payments. The company’s U.S. Agent Recruitment Program is now...