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Why Your Small Business Needs Omnichannel Payments

September 28, 2021 By Christine Field

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To give consistency in products and services and price and terms, the retail business coined the term Omnichannel. Payment providers must provide a consistent customer experience across distribution channels to enable these merchants.

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Modern technology has enabled payment providers to create an omnichannel portfolio of integrated, digitally-enabled products and services that seamlessly connect network and terminals, POS, online payments, merchant acquisitions, and DCC. Accurate omnichannel suppliers can address consumer expectations while adding value-added services that provide firms with a competitive advantage.

In addition, large retailers have unique payment methods, shop and backend connectivity, value-added services, and reporting requirements.

To overcome these obstacles, retailers must establish strategies that consistently meet omnichannel criteria throughout the client relationship. The payment provider’s omnichannel sales team must uniformly quote prices, terms, and conditions for all products, verticals, and features.

Why Does Your Small Business Need Omnichannel Payments?

Gain More Valuable Customers

Omnisend discovered that multichannel customers outperformed single-channel customers in value, retention, and other critical metrics. Findings included an increase in engagement by nearly 19%, along with 90% client retention due to the omnichannel experience.

When customers find a company that provides a seamless, omnichannel experience, they are willing to spend more, buy more frequently, and stay loyal. Superior omnichannel experiences such as using Inoviopay online payment processing can increase revenue by 9.5 percent and reduce cost-per-contact by 7.5 percent.

Consistent Approach

Accommodating a broader spectrum of payment preferences across numerous platforms has advantages in reaching a more significant number of clients. However, there are other reasons why it is more profitable to use an omnichannel solution to do this, like improving the customer experience and establishing a positive reputation among your target demographic. It is easier to install a high-quality, consistent client journey by utilizing a single solution rather than managing a variety of solutions. The expectations of today’s consumers are high when it comes to smooth service supply, and maintaining consistency is critical to establishing brand recognition and, ultimately, brand loyalty in the long run.

Streamlined Processes

Not only can an omnichannel payment solution improve the consumer experience, but it also helps the company’s bottom line. In terms of the business, employing a single system to accept and process sales transactions simplifies and streamlines the entire payment function, yielding a slew of advantages. Included in this is comprehensive reporting to streamline accounting and reconciliation, in addition to simple monitoring of sales and inventory levels. Additional benefits include the ability to gather and map your customers’ purchasing behaviors across all platforms, resulting in invaluable data that allows you to understand better how they interact with your company while also opening up opportunities to develop more effective sales strategies and targeted sales strategies marketing activities.

Increased Productivity

It is more cost-effective in the long term to invest in a single solution that works across all platforms rather than several systems to manage each payment channel. This is because it requires fewer upgrades and reduced maintenance costs. You and your teams will devote more time to expanding the business and providing the service since you will spend fewer hours monitoring different payment threads and suppliers.

Increased Security

Fraud and data thefts are unavoidable problems and genuine threats that today’s consumers must contend with. When a company cannot offer high levels of security and demonstrate a continuing commitment to keeping their sensitive data safe, customers will not devote their business or loyalty to that company. That means that providing secure payment channels is an absolute requirement for every transaction.

The security of PCI-compliant, omnichannel payment platforms is a top priority, and these platforms provide access to a variety of threat-prevention solutions. Not only is data encrypted at a high level, but these systems also make use of tokenization security to enhance their security further. This distinguishes the lock from the key so to speak by providing shoppers with a digital token that must be used to read any of their sensitive personal information. The data is only a random string of characters that cannot be reassembled unless that token is provided.

The Benefits of an Omnichannel Payment System For Small Businesses

The advantages of an omnichannel payment strategy are numerous and this can have a favorable impact on a company’s performance and their sales. Regardless, the ability to exceed client expectations is a must and using omnichannel payments processing is a way to do this. Providing an omnichannel experience is a top priority for most consumers; thus, failing to do so means neglecting their requests. An entirely frictionless, cross-channel shopping experience requires an omnichannel payment processing system.

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