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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

Target is rolling out multiple initiatives aimed at improving in-store safety during the holiday season, including contactless self-checkout, skip-the-line technology and doubling the number of contactless pickup parking spots.

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Three Lessons Grocers can Learn from Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

Hy-Vee , a chain of supermarkets in the Midwest and South, has executed this strategy in a reimagined store in Missouri, launching new mobile payment features, a nostalgic and novelty candy shop, several in-store dining experiences, a pharmacy, a beauty shop and more.

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Tips for Staying Safe and Seeing Green on Black Friday

Retail TouchPoints

For starters, technology can be your best ally, so if you already have contactless technology in your stores, maximize it. But if you don’t have contactless technology, don’t worry. Change your store’s flow to meet the CDC guidelines for space between people, particularly in your payment line queue.

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5 ways POS systems for retail can help increase margins

iVend

Loyalty Programs Loyalty is part of the iVend integrated retail technology platform. To get the most from loyalty, it must be part of an integrated retail technology platform. Welcome gifts – whether to offer a ‘sign up bonus’. If managed well, loyalty is the ‘gift that keeps on giving’ to the retailer.

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

Ecommerce Platforms

If you’re already familiar with Shopify as an ecommerce solution, you’ll know how convenient the technology can be. Wide range of payment tools including in-built Shopify Payments. Various loyalty programs, gift cards, and coupons for improving loyalty. Very impressive store-building technology. Shopify POS.

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