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Democratizing Commerce:
The Checkout Experience Platform
(Manifesto)
We recommend reading the PDF version of the manifesto. Bolt recently announced a $50M Series C funding round (Forbes, Crunchbase, San Francisco Business Journal, TechStartups, Retail Today, Built in SF, Press Release), led by Laurence Tosi at Westcap. Previous to the…
How to Develop an Accessible User Experience
Developing a universal checkout experience requires the checkout to be truly available for everyone. From vision impairment to motor limitability to photosensitivity, it’s critical that content online can work for everyone. Accessibility is more than just a list of checkboxes,…
How Retailers Are Giving Back to Fight COVID-19
For full coverage, learn additional information about the Retailers Give Back initiative in our features in The Daily Mail and Business Insider. ————————————– We’re proud to launch Retailers Give Back, an initiative to highlight the amazing ways in which retailers…
Bolt is a Certified Great Place to Work for 2020
We’re honored to share that Bolt is a certified Great Place to Work for 2020. As part of their selection criteria, Great Place to Work analyzed anonymized employee feedback collected with the Great Place to Work® Trust Index™ survey, which…
Resources for Retailers During COVID-19
At Bolt, we’re closely monitoring the evolving coronavirus (COVID-19) public health crisis, as well as its impact on our retailers. There is no denying that this pandemic represents a dynamic and challenging time, as businesses and communities adjust to the…
How to Grow Organic Traffic to Your Ecommerce Website Using SEO
Growing organic traffic, while valuable, is a very difficult task. It requires weighing a number of different aspects, such as your ecommerce site niche, your industry, and your individual performance. To help you gain the most traction and grow…
72 Tips to Master Ecommerce Conversion Rate Optimization for Your Store
Running an ecommerce site is a difficult task, requiring consistent development just to keep up with the technology and market standards, let alone customer expectations. Conversion rate optimization is the ticket to increase traffic and grow your business. Learn the…
Bolt Named One of the Best Bay Area Workplaces in 2020
We’re excited to share that we’re included on the Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area 2020 List. Each year, Fortune evaluates hundreds of companies to determine the best workplaces in the Bay Area. As part of their selection criteria,…
AngelList Names Bolt One of the Fast-growing Startups to Work for After FAANG
We’re proud to announce that Bolt was recognized as one of 15 fast-growing startups to join after FAANG, alongside companies like Affirm and Coinbase. To curate this list of companies, AngelList collaborated with Blind, a trusted online community where over…
How to Master Your Cart Abandonment Email Series with Mailchimp
Mailchimp is a leading marketing automation platform that specializes in email marketing. With paid and freemium options, Mailchimp’s a popular service to automate email marketing efforts, including subscription lists, content templates, and abandoned cart emails. Save time by leveraging…
The Top 5 Checkout Abandonment Reasons and How to Combat Them
Ecommerce stores are focused on increasing traffic, creating a great shopping experience, and designing an intuitive shopping cart system. Many don’t realize that they are missing out on sales and could be making more of those efforts by applying…
Abandoned Cart Discounts: How to Hack Your Email Recovery Rate
If you’ve refined your abandoned cart email flow, optimized your recovery efforts repeatedly, and are still struggling to combat the effects of shopping cart abandonment, you may benefit from offering customers discounts. To see if this will help you…
How to Perfect Abandoned Cart Email Timing and Recover Lost Sales
Getting customers to add items to a shopping cart requires a lot of effort. Once you’ve got customers interested in items on your store, you want to capitalize and drive conversions. Unfortunately, on average, nearly 70% of customers abandon their…
