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Deloitte Predicts Exceptionally Strong Sales for the 2018 Holidays

ChannelAdvisor

This blog post is part of our 2018 Holiday Planning series. Last year, Deloitte’s annual holiday shopping survey made big waves when researchers predicted, for the first time ever, that more shopping would be online than in-store. Researchers are expecting e-commerce sales to rise between 17% and 22% during the 2018 holiday season.

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7 Brands Discuss the Benefits of the New Cashless Economy and Apple Pay’s Growing Ubiquity

BigCommerce

The Evolution of Mobile Payments: A brief history of mobile payments, according to TechCrunch : 1983: David Chaum, an American cryptographer, starts work on creating digital cash by inventing “the blinding formula, which is an extension of the RSA algorithm still used in the web’s encryption.” 2008: Bitcoin is invented.?.

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The truth about Apple Pay for ecommerce

GetElastic

23% say they don’t know how to use mobile payments). in Q4 2018, the bulk of Apple Pay use happens offline, particularly in international markets such as China, Japan and Russia where the wallet is heavily used for public transit. Yet only 27% of eligible iPhone users have ever used Apple Pay, and only 8% use it weekly. (23%

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The History of Ecommerce: What The Past Says About Tomorrow’s Retail Challenges

BigCommerce

1998 PayPal launches as an online payment system. 2011 Google Wallet launches as an online payment system. 2014 Apple Pay launches as a form of mobile payment. 2011 – Google Wallet introduced as digital payment method. Stripe is a payment processing company built originally for developers. is founded.

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6 Strategies for Collecting Customer Data for Early Personalization

Sailthru

The vast majority of online shopping carts are abandoned and to understand why, Baymard Institute surveyed more than 2,500 people last year. The mobile payments platform works with more than 500 retail partners and its quest to learn which ones appeal most to new users begins with a single customer data set. Context matters.

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Best Retail POS Systems for 2020

Ecommerce Platforms

According to a recent survey , retail executives now acknowledge the importance of modern point of sale systems in their businesses, and are exceedingly upgrading their POS solutions. A subsequent survey conducted in 2019 went much deeper and established the precise POS capabilities retail businesses are currently focusing on.

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Best POS Systems for Retail 2020

Ecommerce Platforms

According to a recent survey , retail executives now acknowledge the importance of modern point of sale systems in their businesses, and are exceedingly upgrading their POS solutions. A subsequent survey conducted in 2019 went much deeper and established the precise POS capabilities retail businesses are currently focusing on.

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