When you’re planning to open up an online store, sooner or later you will have to decide on a payment solution. This doesn’t just mean choosing payment methods to help your business grow by letting various customers from all over the world buy, but it also means choosing the right way to integrate.
How many times have you tried filling out a form and groaned in frustration? Probably one time too many. Online forms are a necessity at times, but can also cause frustration. Sometimes a short sign up form can cause many problems if not done properly. Whereas a long registration form can be frustrating when everything you’ve filled in just disappears once the browser is closed. These things add up to a negative user experience – and you cannot have your users feel angry at the very beginning of your journey.
When you first think about starting your own online store, you need to start by picking the right ‘engine’ to drive your shop. In picking a solution that suits your business you can pick one of three approaches – a free mainstream e-commerce platform, purchasing a full SaaS based online shop package, or programming your own store with all the functions you’ve always dreamed of.
Collaborating with PayPal came a great report about why exactly shopping abroad has become so popular. PayPal checked a series of products available in popular online shops in USA, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, China and several CEE markets. According to collected data in 2012/2013 China became one of the most popular online shopping destinations, placing ahead of USA and joining EU. In Europe, UK and Germany gained most credit and became relevant destinations for online acquisitions.
According to PayPal’s data, the biggest increase was posted when it came of payments towards UK stores, up 32% compared to previous year, while the ones made towards Chinese e-stores increased by 28%. The same growth was seen when it comes of payments made through PayPal by Polish users in German stores – up to 28%.
M-commerce is sweeping the world as stores fight for customers. With an increased amount of shoppers reaching for their mobile devices, E-commerce (and physical stores alike) is taking mobile optimization more and more. There are three factors to understanding why mobile commerce is becoming such a powerful platform: convenience, mobile apps, the spread of 4G.
What exactly is mobile commerce? Investopedia defines m-commerce as the use of wireless handheld devices such as cellular phones and laptops to conduct commercial transactions online. However, this definition can be expanded to tablets, interactive laptops, basically anything with a touch screen. To fully understand those three points, lets firstly look at some history behind mobile shopping:
When it comes to downloading your own copy of Magento, there are two ways to download the newest package, directly on the website (it requires logging in) or through svn. In this blog post you’ll find detailed steps on going through the downloading and installing procedure. What once seemed impossible will now be a quick breeze through simple steps!
We’ve prepared a simple step-by-step tutorial on how to download, use, and change options for your convenience, within Magento
PayLane now supports a mobile version of the Secure Payment Form! This simple to use form will allow your customers to make a purchase right in their phone. What’s more if you already use our Secure Payment Form, then you don’t need to implement this mobile version because users will automatically be redirected to the Mobile Payment Form.
This service can be used by businesses who are already integrated with PayLane’s Secure Payment Form. To help you see what this Mobile Payment Form looks like, we’ve prepared a simple guide to the know-how of the Form itself.
To accept internet payments using PayLane, the first step is to create a test account. From a Merchants point of view, this account is crucial in the process of integrating with the system. It also serves as the first stage in collecting documents and information, needed to create a production account.
Enjoying the Holiday season one online click at a time! Here is a short infographic that shows just how we shop online once the holidays are just around the corner.
We have quite a treat for all PayLane clients. We have just launched a revamped version of PayLane Merchant Panel – now it’s even easier to manage your account, check transactions, issue invoices, monitor chargebacks, modify the blacklist and many more.
