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Kruidvat’s headless rebuild keeps conversion at the core

Kruidvat’s headless rebuild keeps conversion at the core

by Ramon Helwegen | Jul 10, 2026 | Conversion

Kruidvat’s redesign shows how to modernise without sacrificing conversionWhen one of the Benelux’s largest drugstore chains rebuilds its webshop from scratch, other merchants should pay close attention. Kruidvat has launched a fundamentally new site built...
Fix the card management leak losing your returning customers

Fix the card management leak losing your returning customers

by Ramon Helwegen | Jun 9, 2026 | Payment provider

The stored card edit flow that quietly kills repeat purchase conversionMost merchants optimise the acquisition funnel obsessively and leave the account management layer almost entirely untouched. That asymmetry has a real cost, and Baymard Institute has now put a name...
Kruidvat’s headless rebuild keeps conversion at the core

Measure your checkout as a growth loop, not a failure report

by Ramon Helwegen | May 26, 2026 | Conversion

Why abandonment rates alone are a dangerously incomplete checkout metricMost checkout dashboards are built around loss. Abandonment rate, failed transactions, drop-off by step. These are valid signals, but they only capture the sessions that visibly broke. The far...
When frictionless checkout becomes a fraudster’s fastest route

When frictionless checkout becomes a fraudster’s fastest route

by Ramon Helwegen | May 11, 2026 | Online checkout

Frictionless checkout and the fraud blind spot that conversion teams are missingA 14% fall in fraud attempts recorded alongside a 56% rise in chargebacks is not good news dressed up as bad news. It is a structural shift in where fraud actually happens, and checkout...
Kruidvat’s headless rebuild keeps conversion at the core

One bad checkout moment is enough to lose a customer forever

by Ramon Helwegen | Jun 2, 2025 | Conversion

Checkout failure is a permanent exit, not a recoverable bounceSCAYLE’s large-scale shopper research lands a number that every merchant should pin above their dashboard: eight out of ten shoppers who had a negative brand experience did not come back. That...
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