Mobile checkout is a high priority for retailers in 2017. Retailers are focusing on mobile browsers over apps for shopping experiences. Mobile checkout conversion rates lag behind desktop significantly. Streamlining the checkout process, improving performance, supporting digital wallets, and adding essential utility can help close this gap. Pep Boys saw a 85% increase in mobile conversion rate after optimizing their mobile site checkout flow and experience. They continue testing new technologies like instant checkout to drive further gains.
Source: Forrester Data “Mobile, Smartphone, and Tablet Adoption Forecast, 2016 to 2021” (Global)Image source: http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/01/starbucks-app-uk-mobile-order-pay/
Note: not at all mobile phone users have smartphones
Source: Forrester’s Mobile Audience Data, January to June 2015.
A lot of time and energy has been spent the last few years by retailer building apps. BUT THERE IS PROBLEM
The average consumers 88% of my time in 5 of them.
Purchasing a product? An app is statistically even preference with the mobile web
Source: Forrester’s Mobile Audience Online Survey, Q4 2015. (U.S.) n = 825 U.S. smartphone owners (18+)
Your App won’t garner enough of your customers’ mobile moments.
Source: “The State of Retailing Online 2017,” a Shop.org study conducted by Forrester
North American Consumer Technographics Devices And Telecom Online Benchmark Recontact Survey, 2015
Source: Forrester’s North American Consumer Technographics Online Benchmark Survey (Part 2), 2016 and Forrester’s Consumer Technographics European Online Benchmark Survey (Part 2), 2016
Coupons/loyalty/special offers have held steady over the last few years – Been large growth in other services wanted showing expectations
Apple Pay is much improved experience, but still usage is lagging.
We asked respondents about their plans to implement specific payment types
Didn’t ask InApp, Web, vs. Proximity
Dark blue =2015, light 2016, green 2017 and beyond, grey is no way.
PayPal acceptance rules the roost
But not for long –
Apple Pay acceptance is outpacing PayPal by end of 2016 – NFC
PayPal is going NFC at least on Android – Recent Visa deal cemented that
No love for
That stitch user behavior and conversion across devices.
Audience Poll:
Is mobile checkout a priority for your business in 2017?
Yes, it is a top priority.
Yes, but not a top priority.
Maybe, it could be a priority.
No, it is not a priority.
Mobile checkout must be a priority for e-commerce managers and retailers because it is the point at which the investment in your customers converts to business value.
If you consider the customer journey with your brand, you have to make investments across a huge variety of channels--on mobile, on line and offline—to cultivate awareness and consideration. And we know that an increasing amount of that interaction is taken or influenced on mobile. You’ve probably heard the statistic from RetailTouchPoints that 90% of shoppers use their phones while they are shopping in stores and roughly half of customers are using their phones for product research and price comparisons.
Our experience has been that retailers invest heavily in the awareness and consideration phases and that there is exceptional opportunity to improve conversion down funnel.
Once shoppers have reached the intent phase, you have the opportunity to control the rest of that customer experience and convert that intent to purchase.
Checkout is the key part of the user experience that ensures that intent converts to purchase, and to business value for you.
MoovCheckout Instant is the foundational technology that is going to prepare your business for the distributed commerce that are coming down the pipe. Instant Checkout on mobile is already in the early majority phase of adoption and has been particularly appealing to high-value shoppers on iPhone.
Next, we’re seeing the beginning of shopping ecosystems centered around voice-controlled technology, led by Amazon Alexa. So not only is Amazon competition with traditional retailers on price and supply, Amazon is continually making it easier to purchase from them over any other shopping option. Google and Apple, through Siri, will catch up fast and iterate quickly as early adopters embrace these technologies that use our most natural form of communication to make purchases in an instant.
Finally, there is emerging and experimental technology that is just starting to take hold that lets consumers make purchases in ads and apps that weren’t necessarily built for shopping. The apps that mobile users spend most of their time in are messaging and social media apps, so it’s a natural evolution, especially for visual channels like Instagram and Pinterest—and now even messaging—to make it possible for consumers to see something they want and purchase it instantly.
MoovCheckout Instant is meant to be the foundational technology that will prepare your e-commerce operation to quickly adopt these new and emerging technologies so you never lose business to a competitor that is making mobile purchases easier.
Needs proper Pep Boys logo
PLACEHOLDER SLIDE. SUGGEST USING THE STANDARD “ABOUT PEP BOYS” CORPORATE SLIDE.
Joe mentioned that Pep Boys was IR rank 312 before the relationship with Moovweb. Is that something you’d be open to mentioning?
[These numbers are from the approved case study Moovweb did with Pep Boys. Do you have any updated metrics?]
Pep Boys has seen exceptional results through our mobile optimization and mobile checkout focus.
You can see it in the numbers…
A 30% increase in mobile traffic.
An 85% increase in mobile conversion rate.
And 131% growth in mobile sales.
These results more than justified the investment in mobile.
I’m going to tell you how we got there.
[This slide is based on the Pep Boys case study. Please feel free to change it as you see fit!]
First, let’s talk about some of the pain points we were experiencing…
[With this slide, I wanted to hit a few key points:
First, Prioritization of mobile projects—mobile optimization is a high ROI project and deserves prioritization
Then, getting out-of-house expertise accelerates time to ROI
Third, When Pep Boys first began this project, you gained lift from overall optimization. This Core Mobile Optimization phase was a project that involved developer resources.
Fourth, the focus on mobile checkout was a different project than overall mobile optimization. Both were about increasing conversion, but focusing on checkout was about creating a purchase experience that optimizes for YOUR business needs, testing and iterating on small changes that lead to sustained lift over time.
Final phase of the strategy is to be a market leader with new technologies proven to further lift conversion.]
[The idea behind this slide is to briefly touch on some of the non-checkout optimizations that were very impactful for Pep Boys before turning the focus to checkout]
For Pep Boys, once we had gotten the right experts to help us, we got to work on optimizing our site overall to better serve our customers on mobile.
Here are just a few of the high value changes we made to our site. Depending on how mature your mobile site is, some of these types of optimizations may be things you are already doing. But when we started the process of overhauling our mobile site, we found that customers had a much smoother journey when they could clearly see the Call to Action buttons that led them to the products and services they came to the site to find.
Creating banners to showcase promotions helped direct customers to the products and services we wanted to buy and made those promotions more successful.
And a very simplified navigation
So after we had completed this first phase of our mobile optimization, we learned that Moovweb had been running the numbers on its platform and had built software that would allow us, the business users, to get even more lift by focusing squarely on mobile checkout.
Because even with a highly optimized site, we found that cart abandonment when customers clearly wanted to purchase was still an issue. And that’s business we’re losing because we were making it too hard to buy from us.
So we began to focus on mobile checkout and the pains our customers were experiencing there. And the results were powerful.
It’s important to understand that it was incremental changes over time that got us to this big conversion lift number. It’s the cumulative effect of little changes, tested repeatedly over time that makes a difference.
[This series of three slides where we detail some of the checkout optimizations was an area I thought Chris and Laurent could discuss conversationally as opposed to a straight read from Chris]
[These numbers are from the approved case study Moovweb did with Pep Boys. Do you have any updated metrics?]
Pep Boys has seen exceptional results through our mobile optimization and mobile checkout focus.
You can see it in the numbers…
A 30% increase in mobile traffic.
An 85% increase in mobile conversion rate.
And 131% growth in mobile sales.
These results more than justified the investment in mobile.
I’m going to tell you how we got there.
Audience Poll:
Is mobile checkout a priority for your business in 2017?
Yes, it is a top priority.
Yes, but not a top priority.
Maybe, it could be a priority.
No, it is not a priority.