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Shoppers struggle with checkout tasks your team no longer notices

Shoppers struggle with checkout tasks your team no longer notices

by Ramon Helwegen | Mar 23, 2022 | Conversion

The checkout tasks your team no longer notices are the ones shoppers find hardest Signing in, creating an account, typing an address and entering payment details are the most ordinary tasks in any checkout. They are also the tasks the people who build and run a...
On mobile, buyers check their order more often before they pay

On mobile, buyers check their order more often before they pay

by Ramon Helwegen | Jan 13, 2022 | Conversion

On a phone, buyers review their order more often, so keep the review screen A checkout redesign usually starts by cutting whatever stands between the shopper and the pay button. The review screen, where the shopper sees the whole order once more before paying, is an...
What a survey of abandonment reasons can and cannot tell you about your checkout

What a survey of abandonment reasons can and cannot tell you about your checkout

by Ramon Helwegen | Dec 30, 2021 | Conversion

An abandonment survey tells you what to look for, not how often it happens to you Baymard Institute’s cart abandonment page is quoted mostly for its average rate. Further down sits a second set of figures that travels into more slide decks: the reasons US online...
Dutch online buyers report more website trouble than in 2021

Dutch online buyers report more website trouble than in 2021

by Ramon Helwegen | Dec 27, 2021 | Conversion

Clunky websites have not faded, and Dutch online buyers report more of them now than in 2021 A clumsy order flow is easy to file as a teething problem that time and better software will solve. The figures of the past four years do not support that comfort. Each year...
Your cart is a shortlist, so keep it for the shopper’s return

Your cart is a shortlist, so keep it for the shopper’s return

by Ramon Helwegen | Nov 26, 2021 | Conversion

Your cart is a shortlist the shopper means to come back to, so it has to be there when they return In November 2021 a startup called Carrot launched a browser extension for Chrome on desktop that collected the carts a shopper had left open across different webshops....
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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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