Monday, March 19, 2018

Shopify Enables Frictionless Checkout with Google Pay

Shopify Inc. (NYSE:SHOP) (TSX:SHOP), the leading multi-channel commerce platform, today launches its integration with Google Pay on Shopify stores allowing hundreds of millions of shoppers to experience an accelerated checkout. With Google Pay, shoppers will experience a fast checkout involving fewer steps and a mobile-first design. Shopify is the first commerce platform enabling Google Pay for its users.

Today over 70% of the traffic to online stores that use Shopify comes from mobile devices, a number that continues to rise. This is why improving the checkout process on mobile is critical for supporting online retailers in their journey to grow and reach more customers. To improve checkout conversion rates, Shopify merchants can now enable Google Pay with a single click in their store settings and unlock an accelerated checkout experience for their customers. With fewer clicks and a mobile-first design, Google Pay enables any Android user who has previously stored their credit or debit card information on Chrome to checkout via a "Google Pay" button.

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13 Must-Have Retailer Apps to Seamlessly Run Your Store and Increase Sales

Let's face it: Retail has come a long way. In just the last decade, we've gone from clunky cash registers and being buried under a never-ending pile of paperwork to using a single gadget that allows retailers to sell anywhere.

With today's evolving retail technology, retailers can run their entire store with nothing more than a tablet or smartphone with just a touch, swipe, and tap of a few buttons. Using a mobile device, a robust point-of-sale software like Shopify POS, and a few retailer apps, merchants can process transactions in their storefront or on-the-go at pop-ups or markets, fairs, and festivals.

Finding the right point-of-sale system is the first step in your quest to sell anywhere. And a few key retailer apps can help extend the functions of your point-of-sale to fill in gaps and make running your retail store as seamless as possible.

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Google debuts AI-powered shopping, integrates with Shopify

Google has rolled out a new program for merchants to help them battle Amazon’s dominance by routing consumers’ product searches across various channels and devices into a single Google-hosted checkout.

Shopping Actions aims to streamline the process for consumers searching for items via Google.com or the voice-activated Google Assistant by concentrating purchases made on any device within a universal shopping cart for instant checkout, according to a Monday blog post by Surojit Chatterjee, director of product management for Google Shopping.

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