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What retailers must do today to get ready for Code Freeze and holiday-proof their businesses
Shilpi Narang
Chief Customer Officer
The world of online shopping is constantly evolving, and understanding consumer behavior is crucial for businesses to thrive in this dynamic landscape. Bolt's recent Holiday Shopping Report goes deep into the trends and insights shaping the ecommerce industry. In examining the holiday shopping landscape, we uncover three pivotal takeaways that highlight the changing preferences and expectations of modern shoppers. From enhanced personalization to seamless checkout experiences, read on to explore the key insights that can help businesses adapt and succeed.
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Ensure Checkout Performance with Ongoing Experimentation
Chelsea Ortiz
Product Marketing Manager
Building the best checkout experience doesn’t end once it’s live on your site. From evolving shopper preferences to new technology, offering a best-in-class checkout requires constant testing and iteration.
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Designing Engaging Privacy Training
Emily Olson
Privacy Program Manager
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No… it’s a new privacy law! Privacy regulations are popping up everywhere we look, some with mandatory training requirements. Keeping your employees up to date on their roles and responsibilities in your company’s privacy program is critical for success. This post explains how to keep employees engaged and create a successful privacy course.
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Let’s get personal: how beauty retailers can use customer identity to drive growth
Shilpi Narang
Chief Customer Officer
Personalization is increasingly vital for shoppers, particularly in the beauty and skincare industries. In the ever-changing world of beauty, understanding consumer behavior and trends is crucial for businesses to stay ahead. To garner new insights about this dynamic space, Bolt surveyed 1,000+ U.S. shoppers about their preferences in beauty and skincare. The takeaway? For brands to thrive in the ever-evolving world of beauty, they have to get to know their customers like never before.
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REVOLVE Deepens Partnership with Bolt, Tapping Omnichannel Checkout Solution to Power FWRD’s First Ever Pop-Up Shop
Bolt Team
Bolt, a leading checkout technology company, today announced that it will be powering checkout for FWRD’s first ever pop-up shop in Los Angeles. REVOLVE Group, Inc. (NYSE: RVLV) first used Bolt’s Checkout Links at Revolve GALLERY during Fashion Week in New York last fall—resulting in a 35% year-over-year increase in total orders at that event—and the fashion retailer is now bringing this same inventive technology to FWRD’s physical shopping experience.
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How fashion retailers can blend simplicity and innovation to stay ahead
Shilpi Narang
Chief Customer Officer
Just like fashion–where not all trends are timeless–keeping up with the latest technology and digital experiences is an ever-illusive challenge for retailers. To help navigate this dynamic market, Bolt conducted a survey of 1,000 adult U.S. shoppers to understand consumer behavior in the fashion industry.
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Shoppers would rather sit in a flight’s middle seat than create another store account
Shilpi Narang
Chief Customer Officer
All brands want lifetime customers—but what does building those lasting relationships take? For an answer, we partnered up with YouGov, a global market research and data analytics firm. We surveyed 994 U.S. adults to understand what they were looking for from online retailers. What would make them stay, and what are they seeking in their shopping experience?
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Why AI is a Turning Point for Tech Generally and Ecommerce Specifically
Maju Kuruvilla
CEO
No surprise, generative AI is taking the world by storm. Hear from Bolt CEO, Maju Kuruvilla, on how ecommerce can harness this new technology to revolutionize the shopping experience.
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Bolt One-Click Checkout Now an SAP Endorsed App Available on SAP® Store
Bolt Team
San Francisco, CA – March 27, 2023 – Bolt, a leading checkout technology company, announced today that its Bolt One-Click Checkout solution is now an SAP endorsed app. SAP Endorsed Apps are a category of solutions from SAP’s partner ecosystem that help customers become best-run, intelligent enterprises. Endorsed apps are meant to deliver value with desired outcomes.
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Bolt Partners with Casper to Offer Shoppers Streamlined, Frictionless Checkout
Bolt Team
San Francisco, CA – February 28, 2023 – Bolt, a leading checkout technology company, today announced its partnership with Casper Sleep Inc. to offer its customers a streamlined, one-click checkout experience. Casper leverages Bolt’s API-based, modular checkout experience without replacing its existing user interface. Bolt powers passwordless login and a seamless checkout for Casper’s own checkout experience that’s currently hosted on Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
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Introducing The New Bolt
Maju Kuruvilla
CEO
A new year is a chance to turn the page, start fresh, begin again. And while we do that at Bolt almost around-the-clock, the start of 2023 gave us yet another moment to think about our business anew.
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Building the Future of Ecommerce at Bolt
Andy Elmhorst
Staff SWE at Bolt
I left Amazon because I knew the future of ecommerce and commerce couldn't just be controlled by one player.
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2022 Ecommerce Retail Trends
Randy Hum
Director, Customer Insights & Analytics
The world has changed due to the effects of COVID-19 on everyday behavior. From a slowdown in travel to an increase in employees working from home, the new normal upon us has shifted consumer routines. This has undoubtedly changed shopping behaviors across the retail industry over the last two years.
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What We Learned from 2022’s Cyber Five
Todd Scarpato
CRO, Bolt
I have just joined Bolt as its Chief Revenue Officer. It’s an exciting time to start, right at the peak holiday season when many of our merchant partners are at their busiest and I’m seeing in real time the trends that are shaping the future of retail.