Boutique marketplace Jane announced Thursday (March 18) that it now offers Klarna’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions at the point of sale. Shoppers will be able to pay for their purchases from small boutiques and big brands on the marketplace in four interest-free installment...
There’s no shortage of intriguing and successful players in the burgeoning buy now, pay later (BNPL) market. Afterpay, Affirm, PayPal and Klarna are just a few of them. But in the country where the BNPL model first caught fire — Australia — a new banking...
Afterpay Day, Afterpay’s biannual national sales event, will extend to physical retail shopping for the first time this March, the buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm announced on Wednesday (March 17). The event, Afterpay’s fifth, has been extended to run for four days instead of...
Consumers’ awareness of — and comfort with — buy now, pay later (BNPL) payment methods has been growing recently, with these options expected to facilitate $680 billion worth of transactions globally in 2025. BNPL allows customers to receive their purchases right away while deferring the...
Trade professionals just starting out sometimes can’t afford high-end work gear. But access to installment payment plans can give them the flexibility to purchase such products, says Anna Cole of workwear retailer Carhartt. In the Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker, Cole explains how flexible payment...
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments provider Afterpay has rolled out its European service, Clearpay, to retailers throughout France and Spain. Italian retailers will start offering the platform later this month, according to a Monday (March 15) announcement emailed to PYMNTS. “In the last year,...
Younger consumers are navigating early-stage careers and key earnings years under the shadow of the pandemic and the resulting economic crisis, and many also entered the job market during the 2008 Great Recession. These inauspicious events as well as other trends like rising education costs...
Australian buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Zip Co Limited announced Tuesday (March 9) it has been named a BigCommerce Elite Partner, offering Zip’s installment payment services to a global network of more than 60,000 merchants. “With so many options in today’s retail environment, merchants need...
Let’s enter the payments wayback machine. It’s 2007. “Shrek” and “Harry Potter” rule the box office. Beyonce dominates the pop charts. The iPhone is a brand-new product, and the “digital wallet” is seven years away with the 2014 introduction of Apple Pay. Back then, real-time...
