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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...
A card form should look like the card in the shopper’s hand

A card form should look like the card in the shopper’s hand

by Ramon Helwegen | Jan 3, 2022 | Online checkout

A card form works when every field looks like the card in the shopper’s hand Paying by card is the only part of the checkout that is a transcription task. The shopper holds a plastic card in one hand and the phone in the other, and copies a number and a date...
The button under your payment selector matters more than its layout

The button under your payment selector matters more than its layout

by Ramon Helwegen | Jan 3, 2022 | Online checkout

The layout of your payment selector rarely loses the order, the button underneath it often does Teams that redesign the payment step tend to spend their time on the selector itself: radio buttons or tabs, logos in a grid or a list, cards first or last. Baymard...
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...
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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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