Your costumers care about the experience associated with the payment process. Understanding the importance of customer experience is essential to any financial organisation that wants to improve customer relationships and take a leadership role in the payments space.
Consumers expect financial institutions to know the way they live and work, anticipate their needs and look out for their interests by making the payment process seamless for them.
Here are main points to kick off a better payments interaction with your customers:
- As customers prefer having plenty of options when it comes to their bills, it is important to keep up with their changing preferences. Whether it is a mix of paper and electronic statements or online bills, customers prefer tools that offer them real-time access and convenience. For instance, balances available via alerts, email or mobile are one of the most popular customers’ requests.
- Offering multichannel payments corresponding to customers’ needs is another great way to improve the payment experience. As studies show that customer payment preferences vary widely (from paying online or at a bank, mailing a check or walking in to pay in person), supporting multichannel payments is key to improving the payment experience.
- It may come as no surprise that consumers tend to expect more actionable information, including payment-related notifications tailored to their needs and preferences. These solutions may include advanced alerting options to track the money spent by customers.
- Finally, implementing a carefully designed security strategy and educating employees to deliver secure payment options are vital to business success. Make sure your customers know never to open or download files sent to them directly via email, nor to respond to inbound calls, emails or texts requesting their account or personal information such as identification information or passwords.
A successful payments strategy revolves around the consumer experience, and building a successful strategy requires an understanding of how consumers are engaging with payments on a daily basis. Those organizations that constantly improve the experience will be rewarded with consumer engagement and a leadership role in the payments industry.
