70% UK consumers prefer shopping overseas: PPRO

However, there are still hurdles when it comes to purchasing goods from overseas merchants, with 64 per cent stating that the payment process stopped them from completing a transaction, revealed the research by PPRO Group, e-payment specialists.

Reasons cited were preferred options not being available (22%), complicated processes to make payments (16%) and lack of trust in the payment methods provided (9%). As a result, overseas retailers are missing out on revenue from potentially loyal consumers, as 75% would be more likely to buy goods if it became easier to use familiar payment methods, the research stated.

"Payment methods play a huge part in the online customer journey and all it takes is one bad experience in a first transaction with a new retailer and a potentially loyal customer is easily lost to a competitor. The first step to securing consumer confidence and driving sales as well as global business growth is to understand the culture of payments. Not only must the website be designed with the customer journey in mind to make it easy to navigate, but if the customer reaches the checkout and their preferred payment isn’t available, all that investment to get them to the site in the first place is wasted," said Jack Ehlers, director of Payment Partnerships at PPRO Group.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk – India