March 27th 2018 – Today Klarna and MyOnlineStore announced a partnership that will enable retailers to deploy Klarna’s online checkout and payment service together with MyOnlineStore’s ecommerce platform. From order management to customer service – and now payments – everything is managed via MyOnlineStore, with one contact and one contract. MyOnlineStore’s 42,000 SME retailers in the Netherlands can now easily accommodate transactions taking place via mobile. Also, they can maximise checkout conversion rates and facilitate all types of card and iDeal transactions with the added benefit of Klarna’s pay after delivery service – Pay Later. For new MyOnlineStore customers the Klarna Checkout will be their standard payment solution. As this is an automated integration, retailers will have their online shop up and running in no time.
The partnership between Klarna and MyOnlineStore comes at a time when the ecommerce market is growing rapidly. In The Netherlands, both the number of online shops and the sales figures have been going through the roof recently. Klarna also benefits from this growing market: last year the company grew by 73 percent in volume and 97 percent in number of transactions. Additionally, a rapidly growing number of consumers are shopping via their smartphones. 66 percent of the visitors of MyOnlineStore-stores shop and pay with their mobile phones. The Klarna checkout is designed with this type of consumer in mind. Klarna takes a mobile first approach with an online checkout that is perfect for mobile payments. Because the majority of customers can complete their mobile payments more easily, online shops achieve better sales.
Up and running quickly
Time-saving is a clear benefit for merchants of the Klarna and MyOnlineStore partnership. Merchants no longer have to spend time and effort on multiple contracts with individual payment providers. The Klarna online checkout – with the Pay Later option included – can be installed instantly, which means merchants can have their online shop up and running in a day. Klarna also supports cross-border transactions and is therefore the perfect solution for brands with international ambitions.
Alex Pansier, founder and CEO of MyOnlineStore: “In our full outsourcing service to clients, one piece of the jigsaw was missing: an out-of-the-box payments partner. Klarna is able to offer us what no one else could, an easily integrated one-page checkout that can manage any type of payment. In combination with our own diverse online services, our web shop platform and transparent pricing we make it easier than ever for merchants to start selling online.”
Klarna CCO Michael Rouse comments, “We are very excited about our new partnership with MyOnlineStore. A hidden secret in ecommerce, MyOnlineStore processes a phenomenal 1.5 million transactions a year and are onboarding 500 new shops each week. We can’t wait to bring Klarna’s frictionless checkout experience to MyOnlineStore’s existing base and new merchants.”
About Klarna Group:
Klarna is one of Europe’s leading payment providers and a newly-licensed bank, which wants to revolutionise the payment experience for shoppers and merchants alike. Founded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2005, Klarna gives online consumers the option to pay now, pay later or over time ‒ offering a simple, safe and smoooth checkout experience. In 2014 Klarna joined forces with SOFORT and formed the Klarna Group. Klarna now works with 89,000 merchants to offer solutions to 60 million users in Europe and North America. Klarna has 1,700 employees and is active in 14 countries.
About MyOnlineStore:
MyOnlineStore is the most popular ecommerce platform in the Netherlands. Founded in 2005, the platform has developed into a ready-made webshop solution.The goal is to give the entrepreneur as many functions and freedom as possible, without being too complex. MyOnlineStore has more than 42,000 users, together they account for more than 1.5 million transactions per year.
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