Stripe to offer banking as a service, Digital-first consumers want COVID-19 Vaccine, Millennials liked BNPL on Black Friday

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December 4, 2020

Subscription Models

Sticky.io CEO: Walmart+ About Attracting, Building Strong Relationships With New Customers

This year’s digital-first holiday-shopping season should be ‘tremendous’ for both subscription programs like Walmart+ and subscriptions as gifts, sticky.io CEO Brian Bogosian tells Karen Webster. He says that done right, subscriptions open up a whole new set of opportunities for merchants to retain and upsell consumers.

 

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Digital Consumer Onboarding Tracker

Slice Uses APIs To Take A Bite Out Of Address Verification

Clunky address verification measures can cause consumers to abandon their carts — or worse yet, not receive their orders — costing retailers business, says Preethy Vaidyanathan, chief product officer at pizzeria-focused technology services provider Slice. In the latest Digital Consumer Onboarding Tracker, she discusses how address verification APIs can help merchants ease their onboarding and checkout processes.

 

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Podcast: Credit Unions

Credit Unions Encouraged To Get Aggressive With Digital Strategies

It’s crucial for credit unions to offer a full suite of digital services ASAP as consumers dive into online holiday shopping, Beth Phillips, director of strategic portfolio growth at CO-OP Financial Services, tells PYMNTS. But she says a good digital strategy involves more than just stringing together a bunch of digital features. Here’s what CU members really want.

 

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Payments Innovation 

Embedded Payments Build Flexibility For Merchants 

For MerchantE, 2021 will be the year that payments embrace the online/offline consumer dichotomy. Sandra Blair, MerchantE’s executive vice president and chief product officer, tells Karen Webster that online platforms like her company’s can help smooth top lines and cash flow. So can tech-driven ways to get paid, such as via cards and even via text. 

 

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Buy Now Pay Later

DATA: Millennials, Gen X Liked BNPL For Black Friday Clothing Purchases

Apparel was on the holiday shopping list on Black Friday, and so was buy now, pay later for making those purchases. New PYMNTS data finds that Millennials, and Gen X were most interested in using BNPL to make those purchases.

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COVID-19 Consumer Vaccine Study 

DATA: Digital-First Consumers Want The COVID-19 Vaccine, But It Won’t Change Their Digital-First Habits

Consumers who have embraced digital-first lifestyles are more likely to get vaccinated for COVID-19, but 79 percent of these consumers are less likely to return to their pre-pandemic ways of shopping and paying. In the latest installment of the Pandenomics series, PYMNTS surveys 2,806 U.S. consumers to examine how their perceptions around the COVID-19 vaccine relate to their adoption of digital-first habits.

 

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