Stripe has announced new features within its checkout suite, offering businesses more flexibility, including access to over 100 global payment methods.According to Stripe, businesses can now fully integrate its tools, products, and features without the need to build a proprietary solution from the ground up.“Stripe's new features are part of an effort to help merchants create an optimal checkout experience for each customer while requiring minimal effort from merchants,” said Daniel Keyes, Senior Analyst for Merchant Services at Javelin Strategy & Research.“Merchants are usually not payment experts and don't have time to construct the exact right payment flows for different types of consumers depending on their preferences and geographies, so these new features should boost Stripe's appeal,” he added.According to Abhinav Tiwari, Product Lead for Stripe's optimized checkout suite, the company is one step closer to the ideal checkout experience
A Square outage last Thursday sent merchants into a financial tailspin, as thousands of Cash App and Square customers were unable to log into their accounts or accept payments.Merchants reported thousands of dollars in lost revenue
Merchants can now accept Apple Pay, Google Pay, open-banking payments, as well as debit and credit cards through one integration, via a Hosted Checkout solution
Shopify is going all in on artificial intelligence (AI) with Shopify Magic, its new suite of AI-enabled features that aim to help merchants in their day-to-day operations.The company unveiled Shopify Magic during its bi-annual Editions conference, and according to TechCrunch, this big push into generative AI “can provide merchants' customers tailored to their conversation histories and store policies, and generate blog post, product description and marketing email content.”Sidekick, a chatbot tool, is one of the prominent features Shopify is spotlighting within Shopify Magic
