Payment Options

Kohl's announced yesterday that its mobile payment option, Kohl's Pay, has launched nationwide. Kohl's Pay integrates the Kohl's private-label credit card, store offers, rewards and other perks into the retailer's mobile app, which can be applied from the device at checkout. Kohl's Pay works on iOS and Android devices. Total Retail Talks: Kohl's is following…

Stroll into a Kit and Ace store and you're struck by the minimalist style that highlights the brand's comfortable, street-smart clothing line. But if you wanted to buy a scarf, maybe one that's on sale for about $50, don't bother paying with cash. Kit and Ace won't take your Benjamins — or Hamiltons, Jacksons or Grants. It's nothing personal. It's a no-cash policy…

Self-service checkout technology may offer convenience and speed, but it also helps turn law-abiding shoppers into petty thieves by giving them “ready-made excuses” to take merchandise without paying, two criminologists say. In a study of retailers in the United States, Britain and other European countries, Professor Adrian Beck and Matt Hopkins of the University of Leicester in…

Every e-commerce merchant should recognize the importance of a high checkout conversion rate. It signifies the final link in a chain that includes product development, marketing and sales. Tools such as embeddable payment forms, sophisticated fraud prevention and advanced analytics can create a frictionless payment journey, but as the final link in the chain, the…

Completing a transaction on a smartphone can be a pain for shoppers. Each website or app has its own login information for customers to first remember and, second, enter into a very tiny space on a very tiny screen. And at some point — whether it’s during the login creation or at the beginning of…

Target updated its point-of-sale cash register software and its coupon policy to make sure discounts are accurate at checkout.

Etsy has identified Worldpay as the culprit behind its payment debacle. Payment delays and issues started last week, causing Etsy sellers to hold orders and make judgment calls on whether to take a risk and send orders to customers before their payments were processed. EcommerceBytes reports that Worldpay has since apologized to buyers and sellers…

Walmart Pay has launched in 14 more states on top of a slew of rollouts earlier in the month. While not available yet in all of the retailer's stores (we count 33 states plus Washington, D.C.), it's getting close. This latest deployment includes heavily populated states like California, New York and Washington, so you're far more…

The courts struck down the 2012 settlement of a class-action lawsuit over Visa and MasterCard’s credit card swipe fees.

Threadless, an online retailer of T-shirts, art prints, home decor items and more featuring the designs of its global artist community, is always looking for ways to improve the shopping experience for its customers, which in turn benefits the business. In episode 41 of Total Retail Talks, Jake Nickell, founder and CEO of Threadless, talks…