With summer footfall on the rise, now’s the time to ensure your payment systems are keeping up with how customers prefer to pay. Research from takepayments, a Global Payments company, highlights key shifts in shopper behaviour that could impact your business this season.
As summer brings increased footfall to the high street, it’s worth making sure your payment systems are keeping pace with how customers want to pay.
To explore the latest shifts in shopper behaviour, we spoke with our partner takepayments who gathered insights from their transaction data in 2024. Here are three key takeaways:
- Contactless payments remain the most popular choice, with usage up 19% from 2024.
- Digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay have now overtaken cash as the second most-used method.
- Cash is still in use—1.5 million people say it's still their preferred way to pay.
For independent retailers and high street businesses, this highlights the value of offering flexible payment options that suit a wide range of customers.
takepayments’ terminals support contactless and digital wallet payments as standard, including Apple Pay and Google Pay alongside traditional card transactions.
Find out more about the trends by reading the full blog post here.
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