Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Because a problem in one area of your business can cause security or fraud issues in another, it can be helpful to take an end-to-end look at your security and fraud prevention practices to identify gaps and make improvements. Audit the data you share with suppliers to ensure youre not putting sensitive customer data at risk.

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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! Customer and product information at their fingertips What are some of the functionalities and data that your POS system needs to serve up?

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Retail Focus

MARCH 22, 2025

From decentralisation to revolutionising payment processes in several businesses, smart contracts’ perks are limitless. Smart Contracts and How They Work To fully understand how smart contracts operate, well start with a reference to traditional contracts. Read on for all you need to know.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

In this new landscape, the shipping experience has become more important to a brand’s bottom line — and reputation — than ever before. Here are three ways SMBs can deliver a more personalized shipping experience to build a happier, more loyal customer base. Offering different shipping speed options is no longer enough to differentiate.

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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. To ultimately transform, retailers need flexible, scalable and customizable payment infrastructure.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Clean, validated address data is an essential business asset that drives a smoother customer experience, reduces operational costs and minimizes errors. Shipping errors are reduced and checkout is easier, protecting the customers overall experience with your brand.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2022

Shipping is ideally the last interaction we have with customers. There are a lot of options out there to create a more fine-tuned shipping strategy, while also saving money. Here’s five ways from ShipStation Australia to help you save money (and time) when it comes to shipping. Automate your shipping process.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2024

Revenue Recognition Pitfalls in Ecommerce Platforms like Shopify, while instrumental in facilitating online sales, often present financial data that can be misleading for CFOs and finance teams. In addition to non-compliance with GAAP, inaccurate revenue recognition can lead to failed audits and poor business decisions based on skewed data.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2024

Alibaba Guaranteed will offer products at fixed prices, with shipping fees included, as well as promised dispatch of goods within 72 hours and guaranteed delivery by expected dates. In addition to fulfillment by Alibaba.com, the platform handles finance tasks such as escrow and payment terms.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2025

It can be easier when youre backed by the right logistics and shipping partner. Three Aussie businesses talk about why they chose Australia Post for international shipping. What to look for in an international shipping partner Choosing the right international shipping partner is key to the success of your international expansion.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With more consumers shopping online than ever before, thanks in part to the pandemic, which has seen more than 80 per cent go online to buy , it’s more important than ever to have the right shipping process in place. . However, if done right, your shipping can be a competitive advantage. Understand what customers value .

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The desire is still there to do touchless, but for different reasons than COVID safety,” he said during a presentation at the 2021 retailX conference in Chicago. More Dark Kitchens Over the next five years, QSR chain Wendy’s is planning to add 700 kitchens in converted shipping containers to support delivery.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Dealing with customer service for a faulty product or return? One area that may drastically improve consumers satisfaction with customer service: AI-powered bots that can act as a shoppers own personal concierge service. At the forefront of this evolution is the sophisticated deployment of AI-powered virtual agents.

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Inside Retail

JULY 2, 2024

Kai Li, senior vice president for international at Revolve has a wealth of experience in the e-commerce space and has worked as the head of international business development at Shopbop and Amazon.com. Inside Retail: What does your role at Revolve look like? When I was at Shopbop I was only allowed to do marketing.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Dharmesh Mehta, VP of Worldwide Selling Partner Services at Amazon , is celebrating his 10th anniversary with the company this year, and so he kicked off the fourth annual Amazon Accelerate conference for sellers by comparing the differences between the ecommerce platform today and 10 years ago.

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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 24, 2023

As brands increasingly look to resale to build their sustainability credentials, ThredUp ’s white label resale-as-a-service (RaaS) is proving to be an appealing plug-and-play option for retailers. Since our founding, we’ve always thought beyond the bag,” said Keri Talucci, Head of Sustainability at The Sak Brand Group in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

As ecommerce losses from online payment fraud surge toward $48 billion annually, it’s crucial for organizations to leverage advanced technologies to stay ahead of these bad actors. A sudden spree of small electronics purchases from different vendors at a new location could indicate account compromise.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Experts report that chargebacks will cost merchants over $100 billion in 2023, and false claims and abuse of the chargeback process are a growing threat to merchants. The hidden expenses of wasted time, expensive fees, penalties or additional losses of goods and services add up. Internet payments mean more purchases.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Photo courtesy of TikTok Shop While the ecommerce functionality has been available to at least some users since late last year, today marks the service’s debut to the wider TikTok community, and to say that both consumers and brands have been eagerly anticipating this development might be an understatement. Digital Service (USDS).

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

The white label program is powered by the ThredUP Resale-as-a-Service solution and includes the digital shop, clean-out program and cash offerings — all elements designed to encourage customers to rotate their wardrobes sustainably, buy secondhand and receive credit to repeat the process. “At

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In addition to supporting customers who use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) payment options, the program also affords easier access to Amazon Layaway. The ecommerce giant noted that the program was introduced to help consumers as they weather rising costs on essentials.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2024

But how can these brands optimise customer experience and delivery capabilities when they are based literally at the other end of the world? Harnessing the expertise of platforms such as Startshipit, together with our simple, reliable shipping solutions, can unlock significant opportunities.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Michaels Marketplace will be invite-only and aimed at “high-volume sellers of components, tools or craft materials,” according to an announcement on the company’s website. The retailer also is currently seeking third-party solution providers in areas including payment processors, order management and shipping and fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2023

The Container Store has debuted its Closet Clean Out resale program for apparel and accessories, powered by the ThredUp Resale-as-a-Service solution. Container Store customers can pick up a ThredUp Clean Out Kit at any of the retailer’s 97 stores or generate a prepaid shipping label from containerstore.thredup.com.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

MARCH 20, 2025

Understanding how your shops perform in terms of inventory and ROI is essential to the success of any multi-store operation. INSTANT ACCESS TO DATA To get a comprehensive view of how all of your stores are operating as a whole, you must be able to access all of their data at once. Start with: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

Merchants in particular had to quickly shift from in-store sales to online and learn how to accept payments digitally. These can all be categorized as customer service-type chargebacks. Today, fraud has accelerated and grown even more sophisticated due to the rise of ecommerce and mobile payments.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2022

ShipStation, the world’s largest multi-channel, multi-carrier e-commerce shipping solution, is launching a new feature designed to bring better savings to small businesses signed on to the service. The premise of ShipStation is that we cover all of a retailers’ shipping needs on one platform,” says Pope.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

-authorized rapid antigen and RT-PCR saliva tests — both available through contactless purchase and payment on a mobile device. The TRUSTPASS rapid antigen at-home test kit provides results in just 15 minutes, with no shipping or lab work required and a 97.4% accuracy and 100% specificity, meaning false negatives are unlikely.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2022

At eBay ’s investor day March 10, CEO Jamie Iannone shared details about the company’s long-term growth strategy and previewed new products, including plans for the eBay Vault — both a physical storage facility and a digital marketplace for trading cards and other high-value collectibles.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

At the best of times, this presents a vast attack surface for criminals. Before the NotPetya attack rampaged through Europe in 2017, affecting companies including FedEx and shipping giant Maersk, few people would have thought a vulnerability in a piece of accounting software could create such devastation. Adopt a zero trust approach.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

Delivery expenses and costs for in-store picking and other operations can be very high if not optimized correctly for scale and profitability. With that in mind, here is a look at five strategies that can help grocers optimize online integration of their grocery store. A modular platform that’s really flexible.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Where large retail chains and brands may have cash reserves of up to six to nine months, most suppliers typically have only enough operating capital for 30 to 60 days. Many of these suppliers, hit hard by the shock waves of the pandemic, have ceased operations and will never reopen. Demand-sensing capabilities.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

As ecommerce has become a part of everyday life, customers have felt empowered to take control of their checkout experiences both in-store and at home. Adjustments should always be informed by reliable information, and with more at a business’ disposal, inefficiencies can be reconciled far more quickly.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

As the ecommerce wars heat up, BigCommerce is making a name for itself as one of the top facilitators of digital trade, alongside competitors such as Shopify, Adobe Commerce and Salesforce Commerce Cloud. How do I make sure I’m talking to my shoppers wherever they are?’.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2021

There are plenty of good reasons to sell direct, from higher margins to insulation from future pandemics, but succeeding at DTC requires a different set of skills than the B2B environment you’re used to. A tech stack is the ecosystem of hardware and software platforms needed to manage the DTC order fulfillment process from end to end.

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