E-commerce

How to irritate an online shopper or “Philfing”

Given that shoppers are a fickel lot it’s probably best not to annoy them too much, particularly if they have bothered to visit your website.Â
However, a survey of 2,400 UK online shoppers commissioned by MoreComputers.com has revealed the irritation many shoppers feel when shopping online.Â
Particularly, the most annoying thing an online retailer can do is something [...]

Why do so many shoppers abandon shopping carts.

According to a new report from Marketing Sherpa shows that almost half of all online retail transactions are abandoned at the checkout stage. This constitutes the single biggest loss of revenue for many e-commerce sites.
There are large variations on abanodment rates ranging from as low as 15% to as high as 90%. The chart [...]

Online Retailers - Changes To Your Website Security

You may or may not be aware of the recent changes that have happened to Switch cards.  Switch is no more and has been fully replaced by Maestro (part of the MasterCard family).  This change occurred earlier this month and all websites have been updated to remove the Switch logo and replaced with the Maestro [...]