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How long should you leave items in a basket, before clearing it (if at all)?
Many online retailers allow you to add items to a basket prior to checkout.
Some of the big 'names' have a smart strategy that combine baskets and wishlists, and notify you on a future visit if an ...
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3answers
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How to communicate that some customers may buy directly, others must set up account first?
We found that about 60% of all users meet the conditions for our service, so we can provide them the service directly (i.e. we can display its price, and direct them to the checkout process)
Other ...
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5answers
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Voucher code field before login in?
On an ecommerce website, in order to checkout/pay, the user will need an account, so he will have to register.
After registering and being logged in, the user will be able to enter a voucher code, ...
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9answers
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Is it user-friendly to make the main navigation bar disappear when the user proceeds to checkout?
On e-commerce websites (e.g. Amazon), I noticed that the main navigation bar is not displayed any more when the user proceeds to checkout. Why?
If the user wants to go back, he can only do it by ...
5
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6answers
351 views
How many steps should a checkout process have?
I'm currently auditing an e-commerce website, and I noticed that the checkout process has 3 steps:
Login/registration
Delivery address/payment
Verify/place order
The page of the step 2 is quite ...
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1answer
71 views
Multiple items in one basket that get processed at different rates on completion of checkout
Does anyone have any good ideas on how to solve the problem of having multiple products in one order (basket) that are processed at different rates once the user completes their purchase?
An example ...
4
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5answers
127 views
Payment options Prepaid and paypal used incorrectly by customers
In our Online-Shop, we offer different payment options. The most important are "Prepay" and PayPal. With "Prepay" I mean customers have to transfer the money manually to our bankaccount (via ...
4
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7answers
384 views
Why do checkout processes place payment info last?
Most e-commerce sites that I go to have payment information as the last step of the checkout process. Some of these sites provide the option to save my payment info for quicker checkout in the future ...
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4answers
210 views
Where should I place this “continue shopping” button?
I working on the design of an ecommerce site and I was confused about the ideal placement for a continue shopping button when the user is presented with his cart page. I have three buttons on my page ...
3
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4answers
148 views
How can I describe what checkboxes do in a long list of items?
In my web app, I have a long list of items on one side of the screen and a shopping basket list on the other.
Here is an example:
The app works by checking the boxes next to items and then clicking ...
1
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2answers
131 views
Checkout - Realize the registration of the user's address before or after the checkout process?
I'm working on building an ecommerce solution. I have a question: I request the registration of the address of the user when the user creates one or only at the time of checkout?
Is there any A / B ...
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3answers
271 views
checkout: combining billing and payment screens
I am designing a checkout workflow where the old IA has mocked up different screens for billing/shipping and payment.
I want to combine into one page like this (which I've abbreviated):
I've said ...
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6answers
3k views
Preventing a user from pasting from the clipboard into a mandatory form field
In my online checkout process I, like many checkouts, have a field for the customer's email address along with a field to confirm the email address. They are both identical text boxes and accept email ...
3
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3answers
119 views
Asking for Shipping Method on Cart page?
I am currently involved in shopping cart redesign project. I have been doing competitive audit, and have noticed that most of the e-commerce sites out there ask users for the preferred shipping method ...
3
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1answer
143 views
OK to omit quantity box in fashion ecommerce stores?
I notice some of the big fashion ecommerce stores have omitted the quantity box on their product details page (still visible on the cart page though), and I was wondering if it's OK for me to do the ...
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4answers
401 views
Ecommerce checkout: Importance of order summary?
Doing this ecommerce checkout, and I'm curious, should the order summary be visible throughout the entire checkout process, or just at the last step (where the CC info is entered)?
I haven't read the ...
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4answers
160 views
Is it a problem to have a link to 'View Your Basket' and 'Go To Checkout' that both go to the same place?
I have an eComm site i'm specing at the moment. When you add stuff to the basket the on-page basket at the top of the page will update to give you a running total with links to view the full basket as ...
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5answers
505 views
Do users care about having multiple options for payment providers (paypal vs google checkout, etc.)?
I'm working on a sort of CMS with a built in payment system. We plan on having it support multiple payment processors like Paypal, Amazon, and Google Checkout, but I'm wondering if we need to present ...
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3answers
350 views
What are some good examples of payment experiences that allow users to save payment info? [closed]
Any examples or best practices related to saving, using saved, or modifying/managing payment info would be greatly appreciated!
