The cost of losing customers at checkout is a lot higher than you might think. Baymard reports that ecommerce sites can increase their conversion rate by 35% solely through a better checkout design. This increase in conversion rate translates to $260 billion in lost orders. Have you considered how many orders you are losing to standard design checkout flaws?
To help you create the best experience for your customers, our September 10in20 is focused on simple solutions you can start acting on today to optimise your mobile checkout.
What is 10in20?
It’s a monthly series where we cover one topic in 10 questions, points, or ideas, and we do it in 20-minutes or less. Why so short? We recognise your time is precious; we have condensed our thought leadership webinar series from the typical hour into 20 minutes.
10 ways to reduce mobile cart abandonment and increase conversion
As you look for ways to create convenient shopping experiences on behalf of your customers, we’ve developed a short list of 10 ways to retain mobile shoppers during the checkout process. Here’s a recap of the main points from our webinar:
- Make ‘Guest Checkout’ the most prominent option at account selection, and hide username and password fields until the user selects the ‘Sign In’ or ‘Create Account’ option.
- Provide appropriate touch keyboard layouts for select fields — such as the email, credit card, and zip/postal code fields — to help users quickly and easily type their information.
- Facilitate easy typing and verification of the credit card number by auto-formatting the card number with spaces that match how the number is printed on the user’s physical card.
- Format the credit card expiration date fields to match the format seen on physical cards.
- Help users understand where they have been and where they are going in the mobile checkout flow by providing a progress indicator at each checkout step.
- Avoid displaying unnecessary and often redundant fields by setting the user’s ‘Billing Address’ to equal their ‘Shipping Address’ by default.
- Provide users the data they need to make an informed purchasing decision by providing the total order cost before seeking payment information.
- Help users distinguish between the order review and confirmation step by including a second ‘Place Order’ button at the top of the order review step.
- Avoid forcing users to retype duplicate information by asking for the same information only once during checkout and by reusing that information when necessary.
- Provide users with at least one third-party payment option, in particular if catering to international users.
Q&A
Q: Will you be sharing the recording of this webinar?
Yes, we’ll have the recording available on our blog at pay.amazon.com later this week! We will also send a follow-up e-mail with a link to the recording.
Q: Why prioritise mobile optimisation over other channels?
Mobile’s share of ecommerce sales continues to grow around the globe. Statista projects that by 2021, mobile commerce will account for 73% of retail ecommerce purchases worldwide – up from 59% in 2017. Emerging ecommerce markets in mobile-first economies are a large driver of this trend. If you are considering where to place your bets for the holidays and the coming year, this is one place to start.
Q: Is the research you referenced global, or relevant to a specific region?
The findings presented here are based on Baymard Institute’s nine years’ worth of large-scale testing of e-commerce checkout flows using the following test methodologies including; 1:1 moderated usability testing, large-scale eye-tracking checkout study, two rounds of checkout benchmarking with 6,000+ weighted checkout UX performance parameters and seven quantitative studies with a total of 9,221 participants.
Q: Do you have insight on how to optimise the overall checkout experience beyond mobile?
Earlier this year, we provided a webinar with ten actionable tips for optimising your overall commerce checkout. We’ve commissioned research on ways merchant can optimise their checkout experience whether you are on desktop or mobile.
Q: Is Amazon Pay designed only for mobile and web payments?
Amazon Pay offers an easy way for customers to pay across channels, whether they are purchasing on web, or mobile. The good news is, when you offer Amazon Pay at checkout, your offering a familiar experience that hundreds of millions of Amazon customers know and trust.