PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2019

In this new edition of the PYMNTS Weekender you can read the news and topics and research that are making waves as Labor Day approaches. Learn about new approaches to fighting fraud, debit cards for kids, the world that Netflix created and is now in danger of losing, and other topics. Peloton’s IPO To Test Subscription Model’s Fitness.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Subscription commerce may be among the most effective ways to “lock in” a customer for life, but it can be among the hardest relationships to keep afloat. In response to Webster’s query about the efficacy of free trials, Burkhart said that the free trial remains “a great mechanism to encourage [subscription] adoption.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Further evidence of that came from a recent PYMNTS examination of subscription eCommerce , a deep look supported by new PYMNTS research into that topic. Of course, profit is the ultimate point of anything when it comes to payments and commerce.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Voice is the killer app of the connected commerce experience, according to the How We Will Pay: 2019 Edition study. For the third consecutive year, the use of voice-enabled devices and assistants to enable purchasing has increased faster than any other type of connected commerce. PYMNTS research recently dug into that topic.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 19, 2024

Furthermore, he added, CAS is underscored by having a value pricing or subscription pricing model with dedicated staff. Because this has been a topic for over a decade and firms still struggle with it. All of these businesses are better realizing how important it is to understand their financials – that awareness is opening up.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

The topic of conversation was the inevitable consolidation of the payments sector, as scale becomes critical to optimizing the payments experience and innovating new payments flows. Amazon Fresh, now known as Prime Now , was launched as a subscription grocery delivery service available in some U.S. Because Everyone Has to Eat.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Regular retail experienced just 14 percent growth year-over-year, suggesting on-demand is fast emerging as a developing segment for digital commerce brands. Notably, certain platforms — like Netflix — still don’t have ads, a hotly debated topic as the firm continues to fiddle with its business model.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Karen Webster digs into the topic. You may have felt it earlier this week – a sigh of relief originating from certain parts of the digital payments and commerce industry, a reaction to the news that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has agreed to a phased implementation of the strong customer authentication (SCA) rules.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

So is the case with Blue Apron, whose recent experiences provide one of the more interesting recent rides in digital commerce. More generally, the idea of meal kits and online subscription commerce in general gained steam. Back to 2012. Blue Apron headed toward the brass bell of an initial public offering.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

Ambitions that are only the tip of the iceberg, Skava VP and Head of Innovation Dave Barrowman told Karen Webster in this week’s Topic TBD podcast. I think we are going to see much greater integration with online shopping, subscriptions and things like voice going forward.”. Extended Commerce.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

So is the case with Blue Apron, whose recent experiences provide one of the more interesting recent rides in digital commerce. More generally, the idea of meal kits and online subscription commerce in general gained steam. Back to 2012. Blue Apron headed toward the brass bell of an initial public offering.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2017

One of the topics we’ve touched on over the past few weeks in this column lies at the intersection of chatbots and eCommerce. What’s happening here is the creation of a new type of commerce many are dubbing chat-commerce (also referred to as conversational commerce).

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Snyder

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Software as a service (SaaS) is a business model in which customers pay to use the software remotely, usually based on a subscription. SaaS’s main goal is to solve problems with their software, something that regular e-commerce stores, for example, oftentimes don’t do. SaaS business is designed to solve a problem with its software.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Visa North America Senior Vice President and Head of Product Brian Cole told Karen Webster that when the topic is POS innovation in late 2020, innovation spans an entire continuum from card-not-present to card-present transactions and everyplace in between. But a funny thing happened between the spring and summer.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

And talk about them we have — every Monday for the last year we’ve been joined by a range of payments and commerce luminaries for conversations that dig deep into tough topics. And, because Fair does not underwrite loans, but instead operates a subscription car rental service, it does not check a consumer’s credit. “If

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

In the latest Topic TBD with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, which explored the preparation and delivery of food rendered as a service, Ransford predicted that “I think the subscription meal kit as it’s been known will be vastly diminished in the next two years. It won’t be something that you hear a lot of or get marketed to a lot.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The subscription-based model lets users in large and mid-sized cities across the United States buy packages of classes for local studios and gyms. The unsold inventory at a Pilates studio in midtown Manhattan has bottom-line impact no different than unsold inventory on a retailer’s shelves or on an airline’s flight. Emptiness hurts margins.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In January of 2017, the CFPB fined TransUnion and Equifax $23 million over marketing schemes that lured consumers into paying monthly subscription fees for access to their credit reports. Listening with Only Half an Ear.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Today, subscription commerce platforms make “box of the month” businesses a manageable reality. The same economists who paint such a dismal picture of small business are also hard-pressed to pinpoint precisely why the once-vibrant SMB sector in the U.S. has suddenly dimmed. There weren’t easy ways to innovate retail business models.

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