For merchants looking to make a positive change for 2017, addressing the consumer buy button experience could be a step in the right direction. PYMNTS spoke with Daniel Patricio of Shopify and Sachin Devand of AHA Life about the opportunities they see to improve the...
Payments is regarded as much more than “plumbing” for every retailer now, and for marketplaces, they can be transformative. James Esposito, senior director of payments, risk and treasury at Etsy, joined Karen Webster to discuss the strategic role of payments in driving Etsy’s growth and...
Two former Microsoft employees, Joanna Bichsel and Amanda Arch, have recently launched a women’s health care eCcommerce startup in Rwanda called Kasha. The company’s online platform sells pharmacy items, along with contraceptives, tampons and other personal care items. Kasha’s eCommerce model leverages the relative anonymity...
Partners! Partners everywhere! Chinese online retail juggernaut Alibaba continues to partner, invest and grow across the globe, building a greater international footprint to balance out losses from a slowing domestic market. For one, Alibaba is setting the stage to expand its hold on Southeast Asia....
The age of mobile is, among other things, the age of comparison shopping. What used to be something of a project in a bygone era — being on top of all local prices for every good or service one could hope to buy — is...
The election of Donald Trump, the exit of the U.K. from the European Union and a declining economy in China are resulting in reduced enthusiasm on the part of merchants to sell internationally. That’s according to a new survey by Payvision, the global omnichannel solutions...
As the band Europe famously sang — we have reached the final countdown when it comes to the holiday retail season. The early shoppers are sitting home, drinking cocoa and feeling superior. The truly professional procrastinators doggedly refuse to so much think about it until next Friday...
Clavis Insight, a world leader in digital shelf analysis, insights and analytics, recently formed an alliance with leading Big Data and predictive analytics provider IRI. Founded in 2007, the Dublin-based Clavis Insight has been focusing in on eCommerce for the past three years, said Danny Silverman,...
Texas-based national rent-to-own operator Rent-A-Center recently announced that it has nearly completed the nationwide rollout of an end-to-end eCommerce solution. A majority of Rent-A-Center customers will now have the ability to complete transactions from desktop and mobile devices on Rent-A-Center’s website. CEO Robert Davis said...
