Internet Retailing

Items tagged with 'credit'

More than half of all adults bought online...

... according to some recently-released research by APACS (the banks' clearing association). 52% of all adults - some 25million people - bought items online last year - an 11% increase on 2004. On the high street only 6% by value of purchases are with a credit card, but online that's 49%. This is an issue for account and credit-led companies since the expectation is that payment is by card.

[Editorial] Cyclical credit-crunch approaching?

SPSL's latest research for the BRC-KPMG Retail Traffic Index has led them to interpret the 3.6% year on year decline in shoppers numbers (along with data on insolvencies and bank restrictions on lending) as credit-stretched customers curbing their shopping. The impact for etailers is greater than for the High Street...

eBay snaps up Bill Me Later, the web's number two payments business after PayPal

eBay has bought the number two online payments business on the web and will add it into its existing market-leading PayPal business in a bid to dominate online payments. An international launch for Bill Me Later, which boasts a raft of top retailers amongst its merchant base, must be on the cards soon...

Consumer Credit

Against a background of unprecedented turmoil in the global financial markets it's perhaps not the ideal moment to be making the case for consumer credit. But, as able2buy's chief executive Paul Clouting explains, being able to offer shoppers instant credit online for major purchases might just make all the difference

Guest Comment: Should you be building consumer credit facilities into your online offering?

Against a background of unprecedented turmoil in the global financial markets it's perhaps not the ideal moment to be making the case for consumer credit. But, as able2buy's chief executive Paul Clouting explains, being able to offer shoppers instant credit online for major purchases might just make all the difference