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The EAA is enforceable: what your checkout must fix now

The EAA is enforceable: what your checkout must fix now

by Ramon Helwegen | Jul 10, 2026 | Online checkout

The EAA deadline has passed and your checkout funnel is in scopeSince 28 June 2025, the European Accessibility Act is enforceable law across every EU member state. If you have been treating this as a future compliance task, that future has arrived. The regulation is...
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...
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...
The EAA is enforceable: what your checkout must fix now

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

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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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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