{"id":10686,"date":"2017-08-14T10:37:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T07:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/?p=10686"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T07:39:07","slug":"survey-payment-methods-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/en\/survey-payment-methods-europe","title":{"rendered":"REPORT Convenience, security, speed: the top 3 criteria for choosing a payment method"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><div class=\"fb-like fb-like-button_count\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/en\/survey-payment-methods-europe\" data-colorscheme=\"light\" data-layout=\"button_count\" data-action=\"like\"  data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mobile-payment-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mobile-payment-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mobile-payment.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>According to a new report from Germany-based secondary market research firm yStats.com, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ystats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017.08.09_Product-Brochure-Order-Form_Europe-Online-Payment-Methods_First-Half-2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europe Online Payment Methods: First Half 2017<\/a>\u201d (PDF file), the payment preferences of online shoppers in Europe differ by country.\u00a0In several\u00a0Eastern European\u00a0nations, including\u00a0<strong>Romania<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Hungary,\u00a0cash on delivery\u00a0is still the\u00a0top choice, although\u00a0online card payments\u00a0are on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>On average across the region, <strong>convenience<\/strong>, <strong>security<\/strong> and <strong>speed<\/strong> are the top 3 criteria for choosing a payment method.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Card payments\u00a0account for the\u00a0highest\u00a0share of\u00a0E-Commerce\u00a0spending in\u00a0Europe, as of\u00a02017. The share of e-wallets\u00a0such as\u00a0PayPal\u00a0increased significantly over the past several years but remained\u00a0second. Nevertheless, there is significant room for\u00a0variance\u00a0in terms of how\u00a0online shoppers\u00a0in different countries prefer to pay. While\u00a0bank card\u00a0is the most popular\u00a0online payment method\u00a0in countries such as the\u00a0UK,\u00a0Belgium\u00a0and\u00a0France, cards stand in close rivalry with\u00a0PayPal\u00a0in\u00a0Italy\u00a0and rank far behind\u00a0payment by invoice\u00a0in\u00a0Germany\u00a0and\u00a0Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><div class=\"fb-like fb-like-button_count\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/en\/survey-payment-methods-europe\" data-colorscheme=\"light\" data-layout=\"button_count\" data-action=\"like\"  data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>According to a new report from Germany-based secondary market research firm yStats.com, \u201cEurope Online Payment Methods: First Half 2017\u201d (PDF file), the payment preferences of online shoppers in Europe differ by country.\u00a0In several\u00a0Eastern European\u00a0nations, including\u00a0Romania\u00a0and\u00a0Hungary,\u00a0cash on delivery\u00a0is still the\u00a0top choice, although\u00a0online card payments\u00a0are on the rise. On average across the region, convenience, security and speed are the top 3 criteria for choosing a payment method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-e-commerce"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10689,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions\/10689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}