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Driekwart laat je opgeslagen kaart niet bijwerken

Driekwart laat je opgeslagen kaart niet bijwerken

by Ramon Helwegen | Sep 9, 2026 | Payment provider

Driekwart van de webshops laat je een opgeslagen kaart niet bijwerken, en dat kost herhaalaankopen Baymard Institute testte hoe webshops omgaan met het bewerken van een opgeslagen betaalkaart in het account. De uitkomst: bij 75 procent van de geteste sites kon een...
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...
When frictionless checkout becomes a fraudster’s fastest route

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...
When the checkout disappears: the case for embedded payments

When the checkout disappears: the case for embedded payments

by Ramon Helwegen | Aug 15, 2024 | Technology

Embedded payments and the quiet elimination of checkout frictionThe most conversion-friendly checkout is the one a customer never consciously experiences. Embedded payments take that principle to its logical conclusion: payment credentials stored, reauthorisation...
Payment orchestration and the subscription checkout: what merchants must know

Payment orchestration and the subscription checkout: what merchants must know

by Ramon Helwegen | Mar 5, 2024 | Payment provider

Smarter routing is the subscription checkout’s hidden conversion leverSubscription merchants obsess over sign-up conversion, but the real revenue leak often sits further down the funnel: the recurring charge. Payment orchestration addresses exactly this, and its...
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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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