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eCommerce company Bold Commerce聽has introduced its first biometric checkout offering.Powered by聽Wink, the companys Bold Chec stanley cup kout lets retailers offer their customers the chance to use their faces and voices to prefill the information needed to complete a purchase, Bold Commerce announced Thursday Jan. 25 . Retailers are increasingly making their way into the biometrics space, and making it easy for them to integrate biometrics into the checkout experience so shoppers can quickly make a purchase using only their face, Bold stanley uk Commer stanley termos ce CEO聽Peter Karpas聽said in a news release provided to PYMNTS. Were taking the tailored checkout experience that Bold has long powered a step further with Bold Checkout with Wink to drive conversion, customer loyalty and average order value. The release argues that while many consumers use biometrics to make purchases, current capabilities are limited to certain devices and to the payment portion of checkout. With shoppers expecting a faster checkout, depending on passwords for shopper accounts adds friction and vulnerability to the process, Bold Commerce said.聽 Current device-based biometric offerings are often bypassed by PIN codes, do not adhere to shoppers preferences of using alternate payment methods, and arent typically available to shoppers on every channel where theyre making a purchase, the release said.According to the release, retailers can integrate the technology into any mobile, desktop or in-store shopping experience. Bold Commerce s Htam B2B FinTech On The Cusp Of Change
The age of the traditional Swiss watch that just tells time 鈥斅爎egardless of wristband, face and a high price tag 鈥?may be winding down.As CNET聽reports, global shipments of smartwatches were higher than those seen for Swiss watches in the fourth quarter of last year, tracing figures that were released last week by research firm Strategy Analytics. Thats a first for the wearable tech industry, with Apple, of course, a key impetus at the vanguard of wearable tech watches since Aprils debut of the Apple Watch. In the meantime, said CNET, Swiss firms have not been jumping on the wearable tech bandwagon, seemingly bent on stanley shop sticking to their netting. But with wearable tech outpacing traditional watches, its likely that consumers want their wrist accoutrements to do more than tell time.So, the numbers: Swiss watch shipments were off 5聽percent year over year; smartwatch shipments were up 316 percent year over year.In a statement that accompan stanley quencher ied the research fin stanley kubek dings, Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics, said: The Swiss watch industry has been very slow to react to the development of smartwatches. The Swiss watch industry has been sticking its head in the sand and hoping smartwatches will go away.As CNET noted in its report, the latest news hints at some fulfillment of the prophecy made by Apple Chief Designer Jony Ive roughly two years ago, wherein he reportedly said that traditional timepieces would be challenged by Apples pending introduction of it |
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