The phrase “seamless checkout” has been used so much to describe so many things that the meaning has gotten foggy. But given what’s at stake, this murkiness is far from optimal for consumers and merchants, and it’s the kind of thing Deepak Sharma, vice president...
Checking out should be the easiest part of the purchase, but droves of consumers continue abandoning carts due to lingering frictions in the checkout process and experience. It’s a fixable issue that’s getting a lot more attention in 2022 as eCommerce sellers move to convert...
Once asked what kept him together with collaborator Keith Richards through the years, Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger famously replied, “Friction, baby.” What works for rock n’ roll doesn’t always convert to payments, however. A certain amount of friction is necessary in transactions, but...
The world of software sales is undergoing a sea change, albeit a quiet one. Until recently, the majority of companies selling software sold it as a one-time download with licenses included in perpetuity. This holds true regardless if a company was selling a B2C or...
August 25, 2023
One of the more compelling stories to come out of the pandemic was the idea of shoppable content. The hyper-convenient purchase moment and context of shoppable content, along with its emergent cousins like social shopping and live selling, seemed poised to take off. Click-through to purchase capabilities were being positioned as the next change-the-game innovation […]
September 27, 2022
Checking out should be the easiest part of the purchase, but droves of consumers continue abandoning carts due to lingering frictions in the checkout process and experience. It’s a fixable...
March 25, 2020
The world of software sales is undergoing a sea change, albeit a quiet one. Until recently, the majority of companies selling software sold it as a one-time download with licenses...
January 31, 2020
Want to know how the future of eCommerce looks? Well, you could do worse than taking a deeper dive into the world of prescription eyewear. It’s an industry that has...
July 09, 2019
Online checkout startup Bolt announced it has raised $68 million in additional funding, according to a report in Fortune. Since going public in early 2018, Bolt has raised $90 million in an effort to provide a one-stop checkout experience by way of new software. Independent retailers using this software, Bolt said, will be in a better […]
May 16, 2018
Chase has announced that small and mid-sized retailers who sell on the eCommerce platform BigCommerce will soon be able to accept Chase Pay on their online stores. In addition, BigCommerce...
December 07, 2017
Payment processing firm Worldpay is partnering with invoice and credit-based payments company Klarna, according to a Klarna press release published Wednesday (Dec. 6). Under the agreement, Worldpay’s customers can use...
September 26, 2016
“Sometimes I will think that I bought something and I press the button, ‘Buy this,’ and I don’t realize it didn’t go through,” Mr. Tim Berners-Lee said in a recent...
