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Unlocking Ramadan Sales: A Merchant's Guide to Boosting Revenue with Amazon Payment Services

The month of Ramadan is a crucial time for businesses across the MENA region, often resulting in heightened consumer activity and spending. As many observe the religious elements of Ramadan, this period is also marked by an increase in the purchasing of gifts, clothing, food, and other essentials, driving increased sales across a diverse range of sectors.

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Unlocking Seamless Merchant Onboarding and Post Sales Support with Amazon Payment Services

With digital payments and online transactions evolving by the day, Amazon Payment Services continues to move forward with the times as the business leverages new features for increased customer satisfaction. Recognizing the importance of post-sales support, Amazon Payment Services has introduced two new features, Live Chat and a toll-free helpline designed to enhance your customer experience.

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How Fintech's and Big tech Are Growing Through Innovation

As of July 2023, the capitalisation of publicly traded fintechs has surged to 550 billion dollars around the world, marking a remarkable increase since 2019. Concurrently, the fintech landscape in the world boasts more than 272 unicorns, collectively valued at 936 billion dollars, a staggering sevenfold growth from just five years ago, when there were 39 firms valued at 1 billion dollars or more.

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How does Payment Link help the merchants

Amazon Payment Services introduced a unique, no-code solution known as Payment Link. This solution stands out because it creates payment links while eliminating the need for both complex coding or platform integration. It also offers strong security measures, maintains role-based access control (RBAC) for overseeing payment link generation, and provides a detailed audit trail on the Amazon Payment Services platform for comprehensive operation tracking.

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Meet Our Merchant: FlyEgypt Takes Flight with Amazon Payment Services

In 2015, FlyEgypt took to the skies, becoming a vital player in the Egyptian airline industry. Since the airline began operations, they have continually expanded their domestic and regional network, offering charter operations to approximately 80 European cities. The airline has a strong offering that connects travellers from Cairo, and locations around the world, to Egypt's premier holiday destinations, all while supporting the travel needs of hardworking Egyptians throughout the region.

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Pan Home collaborates with Amazon Payment Services to transform customer experience

Pan Home, a distinguished home furnishing and interior design store, has been making its mark on the GCC market since its inception in 1992. Their strong offline presence, covering 23 showrooms across the United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Qatar, complements its widespread digital reach.

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How Merchants Can Meet the Unique Expectations of Gen Z

From generation to generation the consumer segment undergoes significant shifts that are driven by the unique and ever-evolving expectations of each generation. Members of Gen Z are no different, and merchants that understand the unique aspects of Generation Z can earn the loyalty of the most diverse, socially conscious, and digitally savvy generation yet.

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Gen Z and the Evolution of Payment Preferences

Payment is the last step in the checkout process. A customer-centric payment experience prevents cart abandonment at the last hurdle so getting payments right is paramount to maximizing revenue. The merchants are addressing a new, changing demographic and the target customers have vastly different expectations about digital life and about payments

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Significance of Gen Z to the merchants in MENA region

Generation Z has a distinct perspective from its predecessors about finances and payments. Understanding demographic preferences is crucial for businesses seeking to cater to the digital payment landscape in Saudi Arabia.

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A Spotlight on Saudi Arabia

Learn about the payment landscape in Saudi Arabia and 5 of the most important trends taking place, including the role that SMEs are playing in digital payments adoption

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A Spotlight On Egypt's Payments Landscape

From increasing public awareness about the benefits of BNPL options to the gradual transition away from traditional payments learn what Egypts payments landscape looks like today

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Emerging Payment Trends in the UAE :5 Insightful Takeaways

Learn about the payment landscape in the UAE and 5 important payment trends currently taking place, including how new technologies and digital solutions are being readily adopted by younger demographics

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Digital Payments Landscape in the MENA Region

Amazon Payment Services is proud to launch re:Imagine Payments a collaborative thought leadership forum fostering discussions, knowledge and innovation for the digital payments sector

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