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Guest checkout visibility: nearly half of sites are hiding it in plain sight

Guest checkout visibility: nearly half of sites are hiding it in plain sight

by Ramon Helwegen | Jan 17, 2023 | Online checkout

Guest checkout prominence is a conversion lever most merchants are mishandlingBaymard Institute’s latest benchmark finding should concern any merchant running a checkout with an account-creation step: 47% of sites that offer guest checkout fail to make it...
Buy buttons: how one-tap checkout cuts abandonment

Buy buttons: how one-tap checkout cuts abandonment

by Ramon Helwegen | Dec 13, 2022 | Conversion

Buy buttons as a first-line conversion tool for online merchantsCart abandonment is not a new problem, but the buy button is increasingly the most direct answer to it. When a third of consumers report abandoning a purchase in the past year because checkout felt too...
SCA friction is costing merchants revenue: own your data

SCA friction is costing merchants revenue: own your data

by Ramon Helwegen | Dec 7, 2022 | Conversion

SCA exemption strategy starts with taking back control of your checkout dataStrong Customer Authentication was designed to reduce fraud, but for online merchants it introduced a new conversion problem: authentication drop-off. The friction inserted by 3DS flows,...
Why shoppers abandon carts and what checkout changes actually fix it

Why shoppers abandon carts and what checkout changes actually fix it

by Ramon Helwegen | Oct 20, 2022 | Conversion

Checkout friction is losing you two-thirds of your filled cartsThe statistic is brutal but well-established: roughly two in three online shopping carts are abandoned before purchase. Heading into peak season, that number deserves serious attention. The causes are not...
Why 1 in 4 shoppers abandon at checkout and how to fix it

Why 1 in 4 shoppers abandon at checkout and how to fix it

by Ramon Helwegen | Apr 20, 2022 | Conversion

Friction at checkout is a conversion killer merchants can no longer afford to ignoreOne in four consumers will abandon a purchase the moment they encounter friction at checkout. That single statistic should sit uncomfortably with every online merchant still running a...
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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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