Optimize Retail Customer Experience: Ask Yourself These Questions

Revamping the customer experience is all the hype in 2019 and according 451 Research, optimizing the checkout is central to providing a good in-store experience. All too often, customers abandon carts because of long lines. In fact, 56 percent of consumers can recall doing this at least 1 or more times in the last six months. If you’re still not convinced that a frictionless checkout is important, consider Amazon’s 1-Click technology that is worth billions thanks to its method of capitalizing on impulse purchasing.

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PCI Standards in 2019: Q&A with CTO Troy Leach

What do stakeholders need to know about PCI Security Standards in 2019? PCI SSC Chief Technology Officer Troy Leach provides an update on what to expect for changes to existing standards and a look at those in development this year.  

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Biometrics Payments: Where Are We Headed?

 

Biometrics today, such as fingerprint readers and facial recognition, are making the payment experience more secure and seamless for consumers. Biometrics have been widely used in other industries including law enforcement, healthcare and voter registration for several years. In the past, authenticating a person came only in the form of either something you have (a key, a badge) or something you know (a PIN, a password). A password is more difficult to steal than a physical object, but it can still be done. Biometrics today also verify identity based on characteristics unique to the person which cannot be stolen or replicated (for the most part).

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Is Your Payment Technology Partner Up to Snuff?

Innovative applications that integrate payment acceptance simplify one of the most critical business processes – accepting electronic payments. If retail stores today had to constantly switch between their POS app and the one that accepts payments, the margin for error is likely to increase. Staff can become inefficient causing delays in checkout, billing inaccuracies could increase, etc. But most importantly, it will affect the shopper’s overall experience.

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Chip is In, Swipe is Out…Almost

2015 was an interesting year in the U.S. payments industry. Counterfeit credit cards were on the rise and every business that accepted payments was panicking about something called the “EMV migration.” ISVs that provided payment acceptance solutions to their customers were also in the same boat and were trying to figure out what the next step is for them. It has been over three years since and it brings up the question we all have in mind – is EMV helping? A recent report from Visa provided insights into the efficacy of the migration in the U.S.:

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