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Holiday Ecommerce Season 2019: How to Prep Your Site for Holiday Sales
The holiday season is one of the biggest sales times of the year, with some businesses capturing 80-90% of their revenue during this period. With more holiday shopping shifting to online channels, it’s a great time to be an ecommerce…
To Perfect Checkout for Online Retailers, Bolt Boosts Funding to $90M
Check out the news in: Fortune, Forbes, Crunchbase, Venturebeat, and Business Insider Bolt was created with one simple but ambitious goal: to perfect the checkout experience for online retailers and make sure nothing gets in the way when shoppers decide…
How to Manage Your Ecommerce Chargebacks and Reduce Fraud Losses
You’ve developed a great product, expended a hefty marketing budget to gain traction, and established distribution channels, but that isn’t the end. Even with converting customers through an optimized checkout, you need to keep customers happy post-purchase to avoid chargebacks.…
20 Checkout Page Best Practices to Reduce Abandonment & Capture Revenue
To get traction with an online store, you need to have a great checkout page design. It can often be difficult to know where to start or what features are most important. With so many competing recommendations around building an…
How to Properly Set Up Google Analytics for Ecommerce Success
Understanding how well a physical brick and mortar store is performing is a straightforward process. You can hire a third-party to uncover shopping habits, report on the checkout experience for your store or analyze PoS (point of sale) data to…
15 Best Fraud Management Systems to Stop Fraudulent Chargebacks
Operating an ecommerce site gives advantages over a brick-and-mortar location, but there are unique problems retailers need to deal with. By design, ecommerce stores are more susceptible to payment fraud, chargeback fraud, and the like. To keep users engaged and…
How to Perfect Your Ecommerce Checkout Process & Flow to Reduce Abandonment
The expansion of online shopping has made ecommerce the first stop for most customers. To make the most of customers buying on your ecommerce site, improve conversions, and reduce checkout abandonment, you need to perfect your checkout. To do this…
3 Ready-to-Use Abandoned Cart Email Templates You Need To Try
The last thing your business wants to discover after spending a considerable amount of time and money building out your marketing campaigns is that prospective customers are abandoning their shopping cart before completing their purchase. We’re sharing some helpful abandoned…
Entrepreneur Magazine recognizes Bolt as one of the best companies in America
Today we’re excited to share that Bolt has been recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the best entrepreneurial companies in America. The Entrepreneur 360 list evaluates companies on over 50 data points and recognizes companies based on their ability…
How to Reduce Mobile Payment Fraud by Optimizing your Checkout
As online shopping grows in popularity, more of it has shifted to mobile. With this comes increased risk and fraud attempts on mobile devices. When optimizing your ecommerce platform and payment gateway for mobile, it’s important to consider mobile payment…
How to Optimize Checkout Page Design to Prevent Checkout Abandonment
Every ecommerce proprietor has this problem: someone comes to your store, puts one of your products in their cart, and then comes to the checkout page. They’re almost done making the purchase, but if your checkout page isn’t thoroughly optimized…
The 16 Best Chargeback Management Software Tools to Reduce Fraud Loss
Chargebacks are transactions disputed by the cardholder. To a retailer these affect revenue, as they are sales that later need to be refunded. In many cases, these costs are absorbed by the merchant. Detecting and protecting against chargeback fraud will…
The Best 48 Checkout Plugins to Improve Your Store & Increase Sales
If you aren’t already using it, WooCommerce is a leading ecommerce platform for WordPress, enabling web pages to be turned into flawless online stores. To get the most out of your WooCommerce store, you will want to add WooCommerce one…
How to Create an Optimized Express Checkout for Ecommerce Success
Improvements in ecommerce UX have gained traction in the last decade as customers have come to expect faster, more efficient ways of buying online. Offering an express checkout is the way to go if you want to provide the fastest,…
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