Retail Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

Over the past decade, the payments environment has experienced significant upheaval, driven by swift technical improvements. Innovations such as contactless cards, mobile wallets, blockchain, and real-time payments are transforming transaction methods for consumers and companies.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

Small company owners must practice effective financial management to successfully navigate the intricacies of cash flow and attain sustainable development. Tools like Albert.com offer comprehensive budgeting, saving, and investing solutions for personal financial management, helping individuals achieve their financial goals.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 23, 2025

Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping the core of how retail businesses forecast, manage risk, and drive profitability. Retail CFOs operate in an environment of constant pressure with increasingly complex supply chains, evolving regulatory demands, rising consumer expectations, and razor-thin margins.

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Retail Minded

MARCH 20, 2025

Thus, it highlights the urgent need for strong risk management strategies. To safeguard profits, protect customers, and maintain operational stability, retailers must proactively address these challenges with modern solutions. Learning about these threats is the first step in developing strong risk management strategies.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Organized fraudsters use search and social media ads to deceive customers into clicking through to fake websites that steal their payment data, account login credentials or both. Once the order is approved, they call customer service to request a change to the delivery address so they can receive the stolen goods.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Using our payment card whilst we shop online rarely gives us pause, and the many millions who buy online generally trust the system. However, the recent busy shopping season means it’s a good time to remind ourselves that there is an ongoing battle to make sure that the payment card data of your customers remains secure.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 11, 2025

Thus, as retail continues to move in a digital direction, the question on business leaders minds is are your current customer systems, processes and infrastructure prepared for digital retail in an ever-changing landscape? Retail sales, adjusted for the inclusion of Black Friday, fell by 0.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Why is payment orchestration suddenly getting so much attention? Payment orchestration is no longer optional. Surprisingly, how retailers manage and handle payments has not changed; it’s decisively stuck 20 years in the past. A No-Win Payments Scenario. This software is generically called “payment orchestration.”

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

New account fraud is surging, and despite the conventional wisdom that this type of fraud is mostly a problem for banks, retailers are in the crosshairs too. In fact, account creation fraud rates are growing fastest in the retail sector, with 44.7% Data breaches have been a problem for many years, but 2023 was the worst yet for U.S.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We get that running a business is a constant juggle, and managing cash flow can be tricky. For many Aussie small and medium business owners, the ideal scenario paying suppliers as late as possible while receiving immediate payment from customers simply isnt realistic. Now, with the basics covered,lets look at some actionable tips: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Businesses today operate in a fast-moving cyber threat landscape. As digital operations become more complex and cybercriminals launch increasingly sophisticated phishing and malware attacks, data breaches have become common occurrences. For retailers and consumer businesses, a surge in data breaches presents difficult challenges.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Prepping click-and-collect orders, picking and packing ship-from-store orders, managing store-to-store transfers, etc. — And process returns of stuff people don’t want! Your POS system needs to account for that. Associates have to be omnichannel fulfillment specialists. the fulfillment scenarios really are endless.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Amazon will begin offering Venmo as a payment option on its website and app, rolling it out to select customers immediately and available to all U.S. Amazon shoppers will be able to add their Venmo account as a payment method for their Amazon account and even set it up as their default payment option.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Payment flexibility has been commonplace in B2C transactions for many years, and now, emerging payment technology is making this possible for B2B trade. Why should your business provide payment plans to business customers? This reduces the likelihood of late payments and strengthens your customer relationships. .

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In fact, 89% of consumers have complaints about keeping track of their passwords and 54% have stopped using an account or online service because they became frustrated when trying to log in. Decentralized identity eliminates the need for users to provide unnecessary amounts of personal information in order to access a service.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2023

And it’s increasingly clear that brands that embrace financial services within the customer journey are scoring highly on engagement scores. What’s more, the number of payment providers on the market has dramatically multiplied over the years, creating a vast and often confusing ecosystem. It’s reckoned that nearly 4.5

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2021

after Google, accounting for 25.2% Ensuring a safe shopping experience is a critical part of any ecommerce operation. Even fewer respondents liked the idea of social platforms sharing purchases on their feed, à la Venmo, ( 39% ) or storing their payment information ( 29% ). of digital ad revenue share, according to eMarketer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

The digital wallet will be managed by Early Warning Services (EWS) , the company that operates Zelle, but will operate separately from Zelle. The other four owners in the EWS/Zelle venture include Capital One Financial , PNC Financial Services Group , U.S. By 2025, digital wallets are expected to account for 52.5%

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Options such as buy now, pay later (BNPL) services were first introduced to business to consumer (B2C) transactions, giving customers the ability to access products and services they need today while paying at a later date or over a series of instalments. . Transform your B2B transactions with better payment technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

Gaining access to consumer accounts has increased, allowing fraudsters to purchase gifts on their dollar. These scams don’t typically require large payments. However, with the rise of digital payments, merchants are beginning to notice a steady increase in fraudulent losses that are compounding over time.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

So-called “negative option” services are a controversial yet time-tested method of doing business. Under this model, a customer signs up for a subscription service, typically as part of a free trial offer. The customer is then charged on an ongoing basis unless they explicitly cancel the service in question.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2023

billion on pet food and treats, supplies, medicine, vet care and other services in 2022, and are predicted to spend $143.6 Myos Fetch is a full-service SMS “concierge” for all things related to the brand and its focused, yet growing, product line. More than 66% of U.S. million or so homes spent $136.8 billion in 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

Mobile technology is transforming payments, making it easier, safer and more affordable for people to move and manage their money than ever before,” said Dan Schulman, President and CEO of PayPal at the time of the spinoff. “As Source: CivicScience. RTP: Consumer adoption of things like digital wallets is still relatively low.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

For the Overall Online Store Experience, the Online CX Index covered search and discovery, pre-purchase support, and checkout and payment analysing up to 100 data points across the entire pre-purchase experience. Moreover, customers compliment Supres wide range of payment and flexible shipping options and authority to leave deliveries.

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Cisco Retail

JULY 29, 2022

This is the third blog in a series on financial services where I investigate a few challenges of managing hybrid cloud operations in the payment application development arena. The evolution of electronic payment technology. Managing multi-cloud environments demands a new operating model. More than 1.6

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2023

This, combined with workforce shortages, has caused airports to move more toward automation, with self-service check-in kiosks, baggage drops and mini stores. The growing exposure of travelers to self-service options has led to consumers preferring them as they are much more convenient than previous models.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2024

PayPal is entering the media business with plans for a new advertising platform that will draw on its relationships with millions of consumers and merchants to help the latter “sell more products and services effectively,” according to a company statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And they’re getting younger — Gen Y and Gen Z continue to drive growth and will account for 70% of the luxury market by 2025. In this “initially” sweet context, many brands argue that they have “world-class” service, but service experiences are barely differentiated from one another. Approach technology wisely.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Managing money is a skill that transcends the boundaries of work and personal – what works well in one area applies equally well to the other. Facilitating these lessons not only helps employees’ personal circumstances but the company’s bottom line too. Read on to see how to go about helping young employees better manage money.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 13, 2022

Small businesses need to ask important questions, such as ‘What is the difference between bookkeeping and accounting?’ And the results from accounting and bookkeeping efforts blend together to make your business more efficient. Bookkeeping Vs. Accounting. Accounting is about generating reports.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

For the Overall Online Store Experience, the Online CX Index covered search and discovery, pre-purchase support, and checkout and payment analysing up to 100 data points across the entire pre-purchase experience. Moreover, customers compliment Supres wide range of payment and flexible shipping options and authority to leave deliveries.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 14, 2023

In recent years, the financial landscape has changed dramatically with new economic challenges making it increasingly difficult for consumers to commit to recurring monthly payments. Against this backdrop of economic uncertainty, consumers are finding ways to manage their budgets while also staying loyal to the brands they love.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2024

But while labour and marketing budgets are typically the first to be put on the chopping block, retailers may be overlooking opportunities to reduce costs in the back end by automating everyday finance functions, such as accounts payable and accounts receivable. “I

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. They are at the cusp of all things digital, which drives us on everything, from payment options to search — and ultimately, from a merchandising platform standpoint.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2023

As retailers respond to increased customer demand for convenience and personalised experiences while shopping, switching to a seamless payment process has become critical in building a more streamlined operation and gaining a competitive edge. These setups are commonly referred to as integrated payment systems.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

decrease from 2019 primarily driven by the decrease in single-site operators. To account for this rapidly evolving environment, savvy convenience retailers have focused on closing the gap between what consumers expect and what retailers can deliver. Focus on service. Contactless payment options are yet another big opportunity.

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