Online Checkout news and trends

Pre-Purchase Testing and Flexible Payments: Shaping the Future of Retail Transactions
Retail // December 23, 2024

As consumers rely more on online shopping, the importance of optimizing the payment process has never been more evident. With peak shopping periods like the holidays driving even higher consumer demand, retailers are focusing on pre-purchase testing and offering flexible payment options to ensure smooth...

Sephora Offers Paze Online Checkout to Loyalty Members
Payment Methods // August 28, 2024

Early Warning Services has made its Paze online checkout available to Sephora’s loyalty program members. The checkout option — offered by participating banks and credit unions — is now available to members of Sephora’s Beauty Insider Loyalty program, Early Warning Services (EWS) said in a...

Mastercard to Enable One-Click Online Payments in Europe by 2030
Mastercard // June 11, 2024

Mastercard said Tuesday (June 11) that it aims to make the experience of using a card online more like that of using one in store. The company is working to phase out manual card entry for eCommerce by 2030 in Europe, replacing it with a...

Shoppable Content Is Complicated; Its Future Shouldn’t Be
eCommerce // 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...

Interviews & Exclusives
eCommerce Merchants in the Land Down Under Turn to PSPs for Fraud Expertise

February 03, 2025
For merchants the world over, the bid to improve eCommerce checkout — boosting sales as a result — is a bit of a tightrope walk. It’s critical to balance the desire to let more transactions through with the risks of doing so. After all, fraudsters have proven to be increasingly clever in defrauding those same […]

Shoppable Content Is Complicated; Its Future Shouldn’t Be

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...

Data Brief: 76% of Consumers Say Smooth Checkout Very Influential When Choosing Merchants

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...

Navigating The Sea Change In Global Software Sales

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...

Quick Reads
Sephora Offers Paze Online Checkout to Loyalty Members

August 28, 2024
Early Warning Services has made its Paze online checkout available to Sephora’s loyalty program members. The checkout option — offered by participating banks and credit unions — is now available to members of Sephora’s Beauty Insider Loyalty program, Early Warning Services (EWS) said in a news release Wednesday (Aug. 28). “Our focus has always been […]

Mastercard to Enable One-Click Online Payments in Europe by 2030

June 11, 2024
Mastercard said Tuesday (June 11) that it aims to make the experience of using a card online more like that of using one in store. The company is working to...

Bolt Lands $68M To Create ‘One-Stop Checkout Software’

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...

Chase Pay Buy Button Comes To BigCommerce

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...