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Beyond the Transaction: How PayPal is Helping Remove Friction Across the Commerce Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Since spinning off from eBay and going public for a second time in 2015, PayPal has expanded its reach well beyond that one digital marketplace to more than 30 million merchants worldwide. When we have partnerships with these merchants they’re trusted brands, so consumers can feel good about shopping with those brands.”.

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Exclusive Q&A: Venmo GM on the Company’s ‘Natural Extensions’ into Business Payments

Retail TouchPoints

That inherent distaste for the transaction phase is one reason payment companies are so eager to expand into other parts of the shopper journey. taking place online, digital payment solutions like Venmo and PayPal (which has owned Venmo since 2013) are well positioned to capitalize on the opportunity.

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It’s Time Retailers Give Customers What They Want: Online Shopping Without Passwords

Retail TouchPoints

It’s a lose-lose scenario: Customers are left completely frustrated by the process and brands put their reputations on the line every time a customer leaves their website because of a poor user experience. Transmit Security’s own research found that 55% of consumers have left a website because the login process was too complicated.

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How DoorDash is Growing by Advancing its ‘Local Commerce’ Mission

Retail TouchPoints

When DoorDash launched in 2013, it was all about restaurant delivery. Over 20% of our consumers are now shopping across multiple categories, and that number continues to increase year over year. There are many merchants who use DoorDash as well as your competitors. We think we’re just in the first or second inning of that.

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How to Combat the Changing Face of Shopping Fraud

Retail TouchPoints

In 2020, data security specialist Varonis calculated that close to 10 billion data records had been lost or stolen since 2013 — a third more records than there are people. From a shopping perspective, the scene of the crime has evolved from the POS to the internet, and the number of victims is huge. alone, 19 per inhabitant.

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Ecommerce Personalization in the Age of Consumer Data Privacy

Retail TouchPoints

Since these users make up a significant portion of customers, merchants cannot overlook this demographic. One report states that more than 60% of marketers confess to having no preparation to block fraud via mobile marketing, making mobile systems another area that merchants must consider when developing fraud precautions.

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Cryptocurrency: The good, the bad and the ugly

Inside Retail

It took 70 years until they started accepting credit cards in Australia, but less than another 15 years for the beverage giant to announce, in June 2020, that their 2000+ vending machines across Australia and New Zealand would accept Bitcoin for payment. But make no mistake – they are still volatile, complex and not to be taken lightly.