How Payment Performance Drives Growth for Global E-commerce Businesses
09 / 12 / 2024
In the first of a series of blogs examining the benefits of Consulting Services within the world of e-commerce, Worldline’s Ariel Setton, Global Head of Payment Performance and Data Analytics within Consulting Services Team, drills into the increasingly critical role played by Payment Performance in maximising the full potential of any successful global e-commerce business.
Consulting Services is a new trend in payments where a highly skilled team of consultants help businesses navigate trends, analyse data, and unlock sales potential. The service consists of three main areas: payment solution design, multi-currency management and payment performance.
Payment performance has emerged as an essential component of a successful operation, ensuring a smooth, efficient, and secure purchasing experience for customers. When optimised, payment performance can be a driving force behind increased topline revenue, lower processing costs, and customer loyalty. This post will explore why businesses should prioritise payment performance and the benefits it brings.
Improving Customer Experience Through Payment Performance
One of the most significant advantages of payment performance is its direct impact on customer experience. For an online business, the payment stage is often the most critical part of the buying process. Customers expect a seamless, fast, and secure checkout experience, and any friction during this stage can lead to cart abandonment. Payment consultants can analyse your data and reduce this friction by eliminating unnecessary steps and adapt the user experience allowing customers to complete their purchase with minimal effort.
Features such as adaptative 3DS usage, usage of innovative features and an optimized retry logic following scheme recommendation, with localised payment methods and how these are organized in the checkout process ensure customers feel catered to, regardless of their location. By offering these capabilities, businesses remove barriers for international customers, fostering an inclusive shopping experience.
Strengthening Security for Global E-Commerce
Security is also key to a reliable and high-performing payments. Global e-commerce businesses face increased scrutiny. Performance consultants can optimise your system so it’s not only easier but also more secure. Directives as PSD2 and PSD3 in the EU together with advanced fraud detection mechanisms and adherence to global standards provide shoppers with the confidence they need to complete their transactions. Payment security is a fundamental trust-builder in e-commerce.
The core benefit of a payment performance consulting team is its influence on conversion rates. Poor payment performance can result in lost sales and revenue. Customers are more likely to abandon their carts if they encounter unnecessary errors during the payment process where they do not know what they can do to correct it, or a limited selection of payment options. By enhancing this, businesses can capture more sales and increase their conversion rates. Payment performance plays a crucial role in maximising sales opportunities and ultimately improving the bottom line.
Driving Conversion Rates and Revenue Growth
Optimising performance also has an impact on operational efficiency and cost reduction. With advanced data analytics, businesses can gain insights into their payment processes, identifying areas for improvement and optimisation that would go unseen to the regular eye. Identifying a specific payment method in a particular consumer country that has increased friction versus the others allow businesses streamline payment flows and reduce errors, improving overall efficiency and reducing consumer friction.
Payment performance also has a significant impact on operational costs for global e-commerce businesses. Skilled consultants have the ability identify points of non-compliance that drive scheme penalties and are able to help global merchants to reduce the cost of processing while ensuring regulations are properly taken into consideration and driving customer satisfaction.
Why Payment Performance Matters
Payment performance is crucial for global e-commerce businesses seeking to thrive in today's competitive marketplace. From enhancing customer experience and security to increasing conversion rates and optimizing operational costs, there are numerous benefits of prioritizing payment performance.
By investing in Consulting Services online businesses can cater to customers worldwide, drive revenue growth and establish themselves as leaders in the global e-commerce landscape. So don't wait any longer- make payment performance a top priority for your business today. With the right analysis and recommendations, your business can reap all of these benefits and more, setting you up for success in the global e-commerce world.
Upcoming Insights
Worldline has identified three critical elements that Consulting Services brings to the success of your e-commerce payments strategy. In the next instalments we’ll be examining:
- Professional Services: How featuring a highly competent team of technical consultants committed to pinpointing and efficiently executing the solutions required by e-commerce enterprises is crucial, and
- Multi-Currency Management: Supporting large-scale international e-commerce enterprises transacting in various territories and currencies, optimising sales and fund receipts at their central location or head office thru usage of Multi-Currency Pricing or DCC.
Ready to Enhance Your Payment Strategy?
Optimising payment performance is essential for staying competitive in today’s global e-commerce market. Whether you’re looking to improve customer experience, enhance security, boost conversion rates, or cut operational costs, Worldline’s Consulting Services can guide you every step of the way.
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