Google brings virtual cards to Chrome and Android
Google is working with Visa, Mastercard and American Express to bring virtual cards to Chrome and Android. Starting this summer, shoppers with an eligible Visa, American Express, Mastercard or Capital One card using Autofill...
PayPal at the Vanguard of ‘Commerce 2.0’ Movement
If you remember Internet 1.0, it looked like a pinball machine and wasn’t very smart, making search results an adventure that often ended in disappointment. Selling is much the same, passing through its early “just slap up a website” phase and graduating to the...
Customer Experiences In Beauty And Wellness
The beauty and wellness industry ranked among the top three industries for website performance in 2019, moving to the top spot in 2020. The sector owed some success to streamlining the online purchasing process, such as adding digital wallet acceptance. Still,...
How BNPL Is Shaping Consumer Behavior
The buy now, pay later (BNPL) market is skyrocketing, fueled by both increasing consumer awareness and aversion to high interest rates, particularly among younger generations. Recent PYMNTS research found that consumers’ enthusiasm for BNPL continues to grow...
In the wake of Fast’s collapse, Volume thinks it can crack the payment checkout conundrum – TechCrunch
Online payment methods can be expensive for merchants, who have to pay between 2% and 8% of every sale to debit and credit card, ewallet and BNPL facilitators. Much of this is often passed to consumers. Fast was a hugely well-funded startup that tried to...
5 ways to maximize your revenue this Mother’s Day
Mother's Day is the third-largest retail holiday, exceeded only by back-to-school and the holiday shopping season. For retailers, Mother's Day is an excellent opportunity to generate sales and gain repeat shoppers. In 2021, Mother's Day spending totaled $28.1...
Plastiq Debuts Terminal for Legacy Businesses
Smart payments platform Plastiq has launched a new Plastiq Accept Virtual Terminal, designed to help legacy businesses like manufacturers and wholesalers accept credit cards and debit cards with no merchant fees. The virtual terminal, according to the company,...
Forging a Path to a Frictionless Checkout Process
Podcast: Play in new window | Download It is safe to say that everybody has experienced a frictional checkout process at some point in their life. Whether in-person or online, anything interrupting or slowing the checkout process can feel incomprehensibly...
Consumers Buy Items When They Pick up Orders
Offering in-store and curbside pickup options can encourage customers to spend more in brick-and-mortar stores. About one-quarter of eCommerce shoppers in the U.S. picked up their last online purchase in store or via curbside, according to “The 2022 Global...
