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

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...
One bad checkout moment is enough to lose a customer forever

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...
Checkout abandonment costs Dutch merchants more than one sale

Checkout abandonment costs Dutch merchants more than one sale

by Ramon Helwegen | Mar 25, 2025 | Conversion

Checkout friction is quietly destroying customer lifetime valueA survey by payabl. puts a hard number on what too many merchants still treat as a minor inconvenience: 43% of shoppers across the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands say they will not return to a retailer...
Why 55% of shoppers abandon when their payment method is missing

Why 55% of shoppers abandon when their payment method is missing

by Ramon Helwegen | Jun 6, 2024 | Conversion

Closing the gap between consumer payment expectations and retailer realityMore than half of consumers will walk away from a purchase simply because their preferred payment method is not available. That single statistic, drawn from Adyen’s retail research, should...
Half of shoppers say checkout is where retailers fail them most

Half of shoppers say checkout is where retailers fail them most

by Ramon Helwegen | Mar 7, 2024 | Conversion

Checkout friction is still the single biggest conversion killer in European retailA benchmark study covering actual shopping transactions across five European countries, including the Netherlands, has produced a number that every online merchant should pin to their...
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    In Payment provider
  • Retourneren daalt al drie jaar, en dat verandert wat je in de checkout moet belovenBaymard 2026: drie verschuivingen die je checkout raken
    By Ramon Helwegen
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  • Fast checkout as invisible UX: what Dutch merchants need to understandFast checkout is reshaping how Dutch shoppers pay
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Independent commentary on what moves conversion at the checkout. Editorial direction by Ramon Helwegen, payments specialist and founder of EcomStream. Editorially independent. No ads. No sponsored content.

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