High Delivery Charges Are the Main Irish Online Shoppers Reason to Abandon a Cart With a Rate of 41%, 2017 | RoyalMail
E-Commerce & Retail | Ireland
In online marketing, a shopping cart is a piece of e-commerce software on a web server that allows visitors to an Internet site to select items for eventual purchase. Shopping cart abandonment is when a potential customer starts a check out process for an online order but drops out of the process before completing the purchase. Any item that enters the shopping cart but never makes it through the transaction is considered to be “abandoned” by the shopper. Irish online shoppers abandon their carts more frequently than the international average.
Take a glance at the top reasons for cart abandonment by Irish online shoppers:
- 43% reported that they are unhappy with the delivery charge.
- 41% mentioned that they were only browsing.
- 32% indicated that they changed their mind after seeing what they will spend.
A Graph Shows The Irish Digital Buyers Reasons For Cart Abandonment, 2017.
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Royal Mail connect companies, customers and communities across the UK, delivering a ‘one-price-goes-anywhere’ universal postal service to over 29 million addresses. As one of the UK's leading companies, that focus on being recognized as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe.
