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Retailers must avoid replicating ‘a card-based experience’ to succeed in m-commerce – PayPal head of retail Rob Harper

on Oct 2, 2014 | 0 comments

By Natalie Mortimer

Retailers must improve their mobile transaction experience and move away from a “card-based experience” if they want to avoid losing consumers at the checkout, according to head of retail at PayPal Rob Harper.

Speaking at the e-commerce expo at London Olympia this morning, for which The Drum is media partner, Harper citied recent research, which found that in 2013 UK businesses lost £1.5bn in mobile commerce sales, with payment friction cited as the leading reason why shoppers abandoned the checkout process on a mobile device.

“Mobile is driving innovation in payments,” he said. “It’s not about replicating a card-based experience within a Read full story ›

Source: The Drum