Bolt cans $1.5bn Wyre acquisition
Online checkout company Bolt has pulled the plug on its $1.5 billion deal to buy blockchain infrastructure provider Wyre. Bolt announced the acquisition in April, touting its plan to integrate Wyre's APIs, which enable simple and secure crypto to...
Revolut unveils online checkout feature
Fintech superapp Revolut is taking on PayPal with its own one-click payment checkout feature for online purchases. UK and EEA merchants can now present ‘Revolut Pay’ as a payment method - alongside the likes of PayPal and Apple Pay - across product,...
Merchants Rev up the Checkout Checklist
They say you never get a second chance to make a first impression. It’s a statement that is especially true for retailers and merchants, we’d add, who also often face the inverse reality since they also never get a second chance to make a last impression. In...
Bolt partners with Revolve and reveals Checkout Links
US-based checkout technology company Bolt has partnered with fashion retailer Revolve in order to launch a one-link checkout experience for shoppers. The new one-link service is called Checkout Links, and it represents a solution for retailers to enable their...
The 10 Features Customers Demand at Checkout
For eTailers, the checkout experience is decisive in building customer loyalty: New research by PYMNTS shows that 91% of consumers feel a satisfying checkout experience has a substantive impact on their willingness to shop with a merchant again. Merchants that...
Australia Reinvents Digital Retail Down Under
As the land that gave us buy now, pay later (BNPL), it’s hard to picture Australia as a laggard in digital transformation, but merchants and payments partners there still have dots to connect. In “The 2022 Global Digital Shopping Playbook: Australia Edition,” a...
Merchants Must Offer Localized Payments in APAC
In a world where commerce is increasingly global but where markets and consumer preferences are still dominated by national or regional norms, one of the most costly mistakes a multinational retailer can make is not offering local payment options to their...
Recovering APAC Sales Lost to Cart Abandonment
The Asia Pacific (APAC) region is key to the international growth strategies of countless eCommerce merchants across the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Home to 4.3 billion consumers, the region represents a massive market potential that many...
Making Every Video Shoppable With 1 Click
How many people have seen those video screen kiosks or iPads in airports featuring interesting clips and little commercials and thought, “this would be an ideal medium for live video shopping.” Until today, no one we knew of. That’s all changed with the August...
