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3rd Party Touch-Based Payment Service to Increase 150%- Deloitte

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Deloitte Global has predicted that in 2016, the number of individuals who use a third party touch-based payment service to make a purchase on their mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) should increase 150 percent, to reach 50 million regular users.

Executive summary of the document titled, “Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions 2016”, obtained by Nigeria CommunicationsWeek described ‘Touch Commerce’ as enables a customer to make a secure first-time or subsequent payment on any merchant’s website or app without having to provide registration or log-in details either to the merchant or to the payment service.

Authorizing the transaction on a mobile device simply requires the application of a fingerprint or a few touches of a screen, significantly reducing the time taken from browsing to transaction from tens of seconds or even minutes to mere seconds.

Touch commerce, according to Deloitte, enables retailers to exploit shoppers’ increasing use of mobile devices to browse retail sites and apps.

“Transactions on sites and apps remain scarce, with laborious payment processes often to blame. Indeed cart abandonment in mobile commerce can be as high as 80 percent. Easier checkout has been identified as a key factor/key requirement for increased mobile buying.

There are likely to be two principal types of third-party touch-based mobile payment services in 2016. One is linked to the device’s operating system (OS). Shopping applications can use existing information associated with the OS, including payment card details and home address”.

Deloitte Global expects this category should represent the majority of touch-based payments made in 2016: there are billions of smartphones that have payment card and home address information associated with them.

Additionally, the base of fingerprint reader-equipped devices is steadily rising, with more than 450 million forecast to ship this year, adding to the existing base of hundreds of millions’.

“The second type of third-party touch-based mobile payment service is linked to existing payment service providers.

Prior to being able to make purchases by one or two touches of the screen, the user would need to have opened an account with the payment provider and elected to stay logged in for future purchases.

“Once this feature is enabled, the user simply has to press buy and confirm buttons. Confirmation can be via a fingerprint with some devices.

“These payment services enable retailers to outsource mobile transactions to third parties, and by so doing, convert payment from a frustrating to a friction-free experience.

“One merchant reported that the checkout process via their legacy app required 103 seconds for customers to type in their full credit card and shipping information; third-party touch payment reduced this to just 17 seconds.

“Other payment services may emerge soon. For example, some large retailers could enable their customers to use pre-stored payment data to validate purchases made on other retailers’ apps.

“Today’s consumers are constantly connected to their smartphones, from the early hours in the morning to late at night, when at work, while spending time with family and friends or while commuting. Touch commerce provides opportunities for converting browsing into purchases with a simplified payment process,” the document reads.

 

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