Category Archives: Checkout

Checkout Re-Visited: Step 4
"Your Payment Details, Please."

Posted on 20. July 2009 by Bardo N. Nelgen

This is about nothing less but an upcoming revolution in payment services. Think of it as the online equivalent of traditional letters of credit or guarateed cheques – but with new players on board. The risks of pre-payment are being shared equally in favour of a trustworthy business outcome. That said, pre-payment, combined with peer-based guaranteeing and realtime transaction confirmations is going to be a major driver of how trusted online payment is going to work tomorrow. Technology enabled, simple citizen-to-citizen services to be potentially more appealing to customers than the corporation-owned “walled gardens”, may be an insight, which could turn out to be hard to reverse. Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Business & Economy, Checkout, Europe, Germany, India, Places, Sales & PR, Semantic Web & Web 2.0, SemaWorx: Started-Up, Technology | Tagged checkout, e-commerce, Hawala banking, online payment, payment methods, pre-payment, Sharia compliant, trust | Comments Off

Checkout Re-Visited: Step 3 — Entering Your Shipping Information

Posted on 18. June 2009 by Bardo N. Nelgen

An example for how deploying the concepts of ‘cooperative logistics’ for short range to-your-door distribution in other parts of the world may spur entirely new business concepts (probably riding on the current growing demand for customized goods with its often numerous ‘long tail’-biz actors) while empowering the more traditional models with better service at their endpoints. Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Business & Economy, Checkout, Customer Experience, India, Self-Service, Semantic Web & Web 2.0, Technology | Tagged checkout, cooperative logistics, dabbawala, dabbawala delivery, e-commerce shipment, online orders, p2p delivery, shipment issues, shipping options, unified delivery, unified shipment | Comments Off

Checkout Re-Visited: Step 2 — Registration or Log-In

Posted on 28. May 2009 by Bardo N. Nelgen

Do you carry different credit cards with you for every shop you buy from ? Approaches like OpenId show, why this does not make sense with passwords either. The result of reducing the log-in hassle is a significant conversion improvement as well. Continue reading →

Posted in Business & Economy, Checkout, Customer Experience, Sales & PR, Semantic Web & Web 2.0, SemaWorx: Started-Up | Tagged checkout, conversion improvement, log-in, login, OpenID, trust in e-commerce, unified log-in | Comments Off

A Checkout Re-Visited: The Basket (Step 1)

Posted on 12. May 2009 by Bardo N. Nelgen

Humans obviously continue to love the evolution-proven collecting experience they get when adding their very own choice of items, probably tracked down on some remote website, into an equally non-material basket or cart.

Using more elaborate technology like semantic XML descriptions or web services instead, buying with your own virtual basket is going to be much more pleasant than anything you have ever experienced in an online shop by now. Continue reading →