Retail payments: A practical guide to retail payment processing

Discover how retail payments are evolving and how the right retail payment processing solutions can help enhance efficiency and customer experience.

January 21, 2025
 ·  6 minutes

Retail payments are the backbone of every shopping experience. Whether in-store, online, or through mobile apps, these transactions reflect how businesses interact with their customers. Retail payment processing plays a critical role in ensuring these transactions are completed quickly and securely. 

Having the right payment system is essential to the success of your retail payments, empowering retailers to enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and embrace innovation for scalable growth. 

Keep reading on to explore how retail payments work and why choosing the right system is vital for success

In this blog, you’ll discover:

  • What are retail payments?

  • How does retail payment processing work?

  • How are retail payments changing? Where are they going?

  • Retail payments challenges

  • How can the right retail payment solution help?

  • Retail payments with Adyen

Before we dive deeper, let’s start with the basics.

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