One-click checkout startup Fast shuts down
Fast, an online checkout startup that had raised $124.9 million in funding, has crashed and burned after reporting minimal revenues in its second year of operation. Launched in September 2020, Fast's flagship product was designed to overcome the...
SIBS CEO on EU Digital Wallet Interoperability
“Very dependent on global networks.” That’s how Madalena Cascais Tomé, CEO of Portugal-based payments firm SIBS, described cross-border mobile payments across Europe — a challenge which she said requires accelerating innovation among European payment systems in...
Google releases Retail Search tool to improve shopper discovery
Dive Brief: To prevent retailers from losing sales stemming from poor search results, Google introduced a Retail Search tool to provide customers with more precise search results when shopping online, Srikanth Belwadi, group product manager of Google Cloud,...
3 High-Level UX Takeaways from 1100+ Hours of Testing Leading Food Delivery and Takeout Sites – Articles – Baymard Institute
Key Takeaways Our new research has uncovered 600+ usability issues specific to food delivery and takeout sites The research has resulted in 372 guidelines that describe the issues, as well as design patterns verified to perform well for users In particular, the...
BigCommerce Debuts Multi-Storefront for Merchants
Open Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) eCommerce platform BigCommerce has debuted Multi-Storefront, a new feature that helps enterprise merchants create and manage multiple storefronts within one BigCommerce store, according to a Monday (March 28) press release....
Benut je hele omzetpotentieel met een optimaal betaalproces
Online verkopers zijn dagelijks bezig met het verhogen van de conversie op hun websites. De meeste aandacht gaat daarbij uit naar de fase voor de checkout, terwijl transacties ook bij de kassa nog kunnen afketsen. Door te investeren in de ‘achterkant’ van het...
5 Common Pitfalls & Best Practices – Articles – Baymard Institute
Our benchmark shows that the “Your Account” area of Accounts & Self-Service UX is another poor performer — 69% of sites perform “poor” to “mediocre”. While users may not access their accounts very often to manage their addresses or newsletters, managing...
Amazon’s Next Big Thing: Make Streaming Shoppable
The Netflix series “Emily in Paris,” which debuted in May of 2021, didn’t exactly start off on the right foot. Panned by critics and viewers, its Rotten Tomatoes average audience score of 47 seemed to reflect the social media banter over the “infuriating”...
Amazon Opens Second Just Walk Out Whole Foods
Amazon has added Just Walk Out autonomous checkout technology to a second Whole Foods store in Sherman Oaks, California, about a month after debuting the platform at a new store in Washington, D.C., according to a Chain Store Age report Wednesday (March 16)....
