Mobile Product Discovery: The Next Ecommerce Battleground

| Courtney Austermehle

Inflation may continue to impact overall ecommerce volume, but mobile shopping is here to stay, and mobile product discovery will be at the forefront. Yet nearly one-third of American adults will opt out of a mobile purchase due to an unsatisfactory shopping experience. Here are three ways to wow your customers at every step of the journey, and drive more ROI from the mobile experience.

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BNPL Usage Grows, Curbside Pickup Declines

| Mike O'Brien

Buy now pay later (BNPL) usage continues to grow, as cash- and credit-strapped consumers dinged by inflation use it for a wider variety of purchases. The share of online purchases using BNPL increased by 14% and revenue grew by 27% in 2022, according to new data from Adobe Digital Insights.

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Shopify Touts Expanded Suite of Tools for Merchants

| Mike O'Brien

Shopify is expanding its fulfillment services as part of a package of 100 new items in its toolset for merchants, including app connections to Flexport for supply chain tracking and visibility, to acquired unit Deliverr for inventory positioning and to Loop Returns to improve that experience for shoppers.

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VoC Data: How to Listen to Shoppers

| David Fletcher

After two years of rapid change in ecommerce and retail, what do consumers want? Trust me, they’ll tell you, via Voice of the Customer (VoC) data, and you should be asking and listening. Now that a great customer experience is table stakes, retailers need to know more about them to stand out, making VoC data that much more critical.

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M-Commerce: Automation’s Key Role

| Jay Kulkarni

Mobile commerce demand continues to grow as smartphones are a go-to shopping tool. Yet scalable m-commerce is nearly impossible for humans as it requires high volumes of data and continuous, real-time analysis. Automation helps improve efficiency, collect and analyze first-party data and personalize engagement.

Which is the Best One-Click Checkout Product?

| Jason Boyd

Having a one-click checkout provider for your online store just makes sense. Shoppers hate slogging through a long checkout process to get that bauble that caught their eye – and ecommerce merchants hate losing sales to abandoned shopping carts. But are they truly one click, and how fast? We put the platforms through their paces.

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Monoliths vs. Microservices: Decision Time for Ecommerce Brands

| Derek O'Carroll

Monolithic architecture is notoriously inflexible and difficult to scale, as any business that has tried to integrate it with other tech platforms and APIs can attest. Increasingly, brands are growing tired of big bills for relatively small changes, slowdowns and crashes and other disruptions, leading many to explore the option of microservices.

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Creating a Powerful Digital Shelf to Stand Out Online

| Maria Chatzidakis

Online spending in 2020 accounted for 21.3% of total retail sales, up from 15.8% in 2019 and 14.3% in 2018. These totals far outperform expert predictions. In the ongoing global pandemic, consumer shopping habits have changed, so your brand’s ecommerce strategy must adapt, and that includes amplifying your digital shelf strategy.

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Voice Commerce: Coming Soon to a Device Near You

| Deepak Gupta

Although voice tech isn’t new, using it for ecommerce is a relatively recent development. The hands-free approach is novel, but consumers remain skeptical. When voice tech was first introduced, there were obvious capacity limits. Now, there have been significant improvements to enable voice commerce thanks to machine learning and AI.

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No-Code App Development for Mobile Commerce

| Regina Wheeler

As an ecommerce owner running your business, you haven’t had time to learn to code. Fortunately, there are many tools that allow you to build a professional app with no coding required. No-code app development is booming, and these intuitive platforms provide all the features you need to start converting leads.