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E-Commerce Cart & Checkout Usability Research

Baymard Institute · baymard.com Freemium Intermediate

The deepest independent usability research base on why carts get abandoned - the '70% abandonment' figure and specific checkout friction points cited across the CRO industry trace back to this research.

  • Roughly 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned before checkout, aggregated across dozens of studies (Baymard estimate, moves over time).
  • Fixing documented checkout usability issues can meaningfully lift conversion - Baymard's own research cites gains approaching a third.
  • Surprise extra costs and complicated/lengthy checkout forms are among the single biggest named reasons shoppers abandon.
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It answers 5 questions

  1. My conversion rate is around 1.2%. Is that good or bad?
  2. Nobody's heard of my brand. What trust signals actually make Indian shoppers buy?
  3. Do I need a one-click checkout tool like GoKwik or Shopflo, or is Shopify's native checkout enough?
  4. My cart abandonment rate is brutal. What actually brings people back?
  5. How do I optimise UPI at checkout, what's the difference between UPI intent and collect, and why do my UPI payments keep failing?

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