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Real-Time Payments Can Unlock New Value for Retailers

| Jack Baldwin

While real-time payments offer retailers faster processing and lower costs, they can unlock new value by enhancing the customer experience, improving loyalty and offering more insight into consumer needs and shopping behaviors. To capitalize on these opportunities, retailers and their PSPs need modern back-office systems designed to operate in a real-time payment environment.

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A History of Barcodes, and Looking Ahead

| Gabe Grifoni

A little over 50 years ago, retail leaders came together and transformed the global economy forever by developing the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN), a numerical code uniquely identifying every single product and the core of the barcode. Here’s a bit of the history of the barcode, and where the technology is going.

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4 Ecommerce Checkout Tech Trends to Improve the Customer Experience

| Kushal Shah

The juxtaposition of “fast and frictionless yet safe” checkout puts a large burden on retailers who may be tempted to add extra steps to increase security. While there are many ways to meet these growing customer expectations, the best approach is to prioritize the user experience. Here are 4 trends to watch for in 2020 and beyond.

Microservices, A Solution to Omnichannel Enterprise Sprawl

| Jon Feldman

Designed for web-first, monolithic commerce platforms are generally hardwired to their desktop and mobile front ends, and are not designed for contextual device or use case specific experiences now expected of them. Enter microservices architecture, solving the pain of legacy architecture and siloed systems. Here’s how it works.

Re-Establishing IT Principles in a Unified Commerce World

| Rick Amari

Retailers need to not only reinvent their strategy to meet consumer expectations, but have to reconcile and implement new technology to meet the demands of unified commerce. Here are steps they can take to create a roadmap for connecting legacy and new technology that drives an effective unified commerce approach.