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How Mobile Payments Are Taking Over eCommerce

Groove

The new way of purchasing goods and services is through Mobile Payments whether you are shopping online or in-store. As millions of users start to use mobile payments each year, it is projected that 4.8 billion people will be completing transactions through mobile payments by 2025. What Are Mobile Payments?

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Why Retailers Should Dust Off The Old Gift Card Strategy

RTP blog

By Michael Smallwood, Bitmo We’re all familiar with the classic gift card — those plastic little cards of joy that tend to bulge our wallets, and we often forget are even there. displayed the gift card in stores. However, despite gift cards representing a $160 billion industry in the U.S.

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Target Expands Contactless Checkout and Pickup Options to Enhance Safety During the Holidays

Retail TouchPoints

The retailer also is expanding its selection of items available for same-day pickup or delivery, with an emphasis on gifts and ingredients for holiday meals. Shoppers can now use the Wallet mobile payment option in the Target app to scan items with their own devices, eliminating the need to pick up an in-store scanning device.

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Why UK Retailers Should Save Some of Their Christmas Marketing Spend for Chinese New Year

Retail TouchPoints

Many individuals receive red envelopes filled with money as a traditional gift, providing them with additional spending power. Make sure you accept a variety of payment methods. To understand the impact of this shift, it’s crucial to recognize the importance of Lunar New Year to Chinese consumers.

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Shopify POS vs Clover POS (Apr 2022): Which is Best?

Ecommerce Platforms

The backend office is also extremely easy to navigate, with no shortage of tools for tracking your employees and your customers. You can access a host of CRM-style features, build customer profiles, and segment people based on their purchasing potential. Wide range of payment tools including in-built Shopify Payments.

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Tips for Staying Safe and Seeing Green on Black Friday

Retail TouchPoints

Now is the time to use your observation skills to understand what your customers value the most when they shop in your store. Answering these questions (and others) can go a long way in helping you understand your customer needs. But if you don’t have contactless technology, don’t worry. Observe Your Consumers.

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What is Google Pay and How Does It Work? (Nov 2020)

Ecommerce Platforms

This gives modern merchants more flexibility when it comes to offering customers the payment options they want most. In 2018, Google revamped it’s solutions for online and mobile payments, placing everything under the same Google Pay umbrella. With a mobile app, users can make purchase online, in-store, and in apps.