Change at the checkout 2025: what online shoppers and ecommerce merchants think about payments

change at the checkout

In the past five years we’ve seen COVID-19, when online shopping in the UK grew sharply, various card fee increases, and the recent Crowdstrike outage of August 2024. Throughout all this, merchants and consumers have felt the pain of payment methods that were designed and built for the pre-internet era.

But are shoppers and merchants ready for a change? And what do they want from this change?

To find out, TrueLayer and Juniper Research surveyed 1,352 online shoppers and large ecommerce merchants.

In the report you’ll learn:

  • Which payment method 80% of ecommerce merchants are planning to add to their roadmap in the next 12 months

  • How much chargebacks are costing businesses every year.

  • Why 65% of all shoppers are happy to try Pay by bank at checkout

  • What 8 out of 10 shoppers think is the biggest factor their choice of payment method

  • How long the average shopper is happy to wait for a refund

300+ ecommerce merchants

Get insights from senior decision makers in travel, consumer retail, food delivery, fashion and other key ecommerce industries.

1,000+ online shoppers

Find out what regular online shoppers think about payment methods, refund times, security concerns and more.

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