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Why Fast’s one-click checkout collapse still matters for merchants

Why Fast’s one-click checkout collapse still matters for merchants

by Ramon Helwegen | Apr 6, 2022 | Online checkout

Frictionless checkout is hard to build and even harder to scaleThe shutdown of Fast, the one-click checkout startup that burned through over $124 million in venture funding while generating only six-figure revenues, is a sobering reminder that solving checkout...
Stop losing revenue at the final step of checkout

Stop losing revenue at the final step of checkout

by Ramon Helwegen | Mar 23, 2022 | Conversion

Authorization failures are the silent killer of checkout conversionMost merchants obsess over the top of the funnel. Ad spend, landing page copy, product imagery, cart abandonment emails. Yet a significant share of revenue is lost at the very last moment, when a...
Stop losing revenue at the final step of checkout

Nearly half of shoppers still drop off after reaching checkout

by Ramon Helwegen | Jan 13, 2022 | Conversion

Checkout abandonment is the conversion leak most merchants are ignoringCart abandonment gets all the attention, but a new benchmark from Bold Commerce reveals the problem does not stop once a shopper clicks through to checkout. Almost half of all shoppers who initiate...
Why Fast’s one-click checkout collapse still matters for merchants

Thirteen ways merchants can reduce checkout friction for every customer

by Ramon Helwegen | Jan 6, 2022 | Online checkout

Accessibility and simplicity are the real frontiers of checkout optimisationMost checkout optimisation conversations focus on the same familiar levers: fewer form fields, guest checkout, saved cards. What this piece from Forbes Technology Council usefully surfaces is...
Why Fast’s one-click checkout collapse still matters for merchants

Why form fields matter more than checkout steps

by Ramon Helwegen | Jan 3, 2022 | Online checkout

Why form fields matter more than checkout stepsMost merchants obsess over the number of steps in their checkout flow. Baymard Institute’s latest large-scale usability research suggests that energy is largely misplaced. The average checkout today runs to 5.2...
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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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