I have perfected the art of multitasking. Thanks to my mobile devices, the internet, apps and embedded payments, I can book airline tickets while waiting for a Zoom call to start, shop for holiday gifts while in the back of an Uber on the way...
Amazon is opening its invite-only Buy With Prime program to a much wider merchant pool. Beginning Jan. 31, the program will be available to all eligible U.S. merchants, the eCommerce giant said in a news release Tuesday (Jan. 10). Introduced last April, Buy With Prime lets merchants...
In the fast and frictionless checkout game, buy buttons have taken a circuitous route since first appearing on Amazon in 1995. But 27 years later, with the concept all grown up and accessible in more places than ever, retail’s embrace of the rapid checkout solutions...
Merchants are adding buy buttons— shortcuts to check out via a payment platform that skips the typical “add-to-cart” and payment steps — more quickly than they have since 2018. Nearly three-quarters of all eTailers now offer buy buttons, significantly streamlining the purchase journey. However, PYMNTS...
February 09, 2021
Buy buttons — click-to-purchase payment innovations that have reduced checkout times by as much as 50 percent — have remained nearly ubiquitous among leading retailers since PYMNTS began tracking them in 2016. However, the past year saw a dramatic shift with a record 76 percent of all retailers offering them in Q4 2020. Buy buttons […]
January 10, 2023
Amazon is opening its invite-only Buy With Prime program to a much wider merchant pool. Beginning Jan. 31, the program will be available to all eligible U.S. merchants, the eCommerce giant said in a news release Tuesday (Jan. 10). Introduced last April, Buy With Prime lets merchants sell listed products directly from their websites. This perk makes […]
June 02, 2016
Twitter’s Head of Media and Commerce Nathan Hubbard is leaving the company after three years of working with the social media giant. Hubbard, who started at Twitter in 2013, was hired...
May 27, 2016
Twitter is seeing some important changes to its day-to-day resources. BuzzFeed reported on Wednesday (May 25) that the social media giant has seen several of its two dozen commerce team professionals...
March 23, 2016
Shopify is pressing hard on buy buttons. Re/code reports that the eCommerce platform is increasing the number of online sales channels on which its merchant customers — primarily small businesses — can...
