7 Cart Catastrophes to Avoid

| Jim Davidson

The shopping cart represents a pivotal moment in online shopping. The customer has found your site, narrowed down items of interest, and actually carted a product. But strange things can happen in the cart. See what types of things can happen and how to avoid them.

Warehouse, distribution center, retail operations management, ecommerce

Retailers Need to Step Up Their Shipping Game this Holiday

| Erin Lynch

With nearly 50% of Americans abandoning their shopping carts due to high shipping costs, it’s imperative for merchants to focus on managing delivery fees in order to ensure a happy customer this holiday season. In this infographic from Pitney Bowes, you will walk away with a few quick tips that can help you keep a happy customer and a secured sale during the most competitive time of the year.

Top 5 User Testing Tips for Shopping Cart Success

| Darrell Benatar

Usability testing can help store owners improve their shopping carts to eliminate any anxiety or confusion throughout the checkout process and lead customers seamlessly through the conversion funnel. To help owners utilize usability testing to beat the shopping cart abandonment average, we’ve pulled together this list of the top five user testing tips for ecommerce.

7 Ways to Reduce Cart Abandonment

| Erin Lynch

When it comes to making sure your site visitor finalizes the purchase, retailers should always remember that the basic aim should be to make the checkout process as simple as possible. Here are 7 tips from Econsultancy on how to reduce cart abandonment.

Make Mom Happy in 3 Seconds

| Daniela Forte

Make mom happy in three seconds this Mother’s Day. This infographic by Pythian, looks at online spending for Mother’s Day, why website speed matters and what an online retail site must do in under three seconds to avoid cart abandonment. According to the infographic, $152.52 is the average Mother’s Day order value. There are 121,951,299 Mother’s Day orders and $18.6 billion in online sales for Mother’s Day.