Online commerce is one of the sales sectors that is helping many companies to leave behind the hard economic times that the crisis brought with it. Thus, sales through the Internet have served as a lifeline for many companies.
Since its appearance, online commerce brought with it the promise of great benefits for all those companies that wanted to take part in it. However, its first stages were met with reluctance from a large part of consumers who did not dare to take the step of making their purchases through a virtual platform.
This burden was especially focused on the payment methods chosen to make any type of purchase, since there is still a public that refuses to give any type of bank information to make a purchase on the Internet.
Thus, this obstacle was completely insurmountable in previous times, since the lack of alternative payment methods was the main obstacle for the definitive take-off of online commerce. However, the present tells us that sales through the Internet grow annually at an unstoppable rate, something completely contradictory if we continue thinking in the same terms of insecurity and distrust in the payment that this sales method aroused in the past.
The emergence of new online payment methods
Prepaid cards are one of the safest forms of payment that can be found today, in fact it has been a revolution within online payment methods, since these cards contain an amount of money in the form of a balance, a sum that is the same as it costs to buy them in the different places of sale where they are sold.
Prepaid cards have generated a new confidence in a consumer who no longer has to reveal any personal bank details of their lifelong account in order to make a purchase through the network. Something that, without a doubt, has made many now decide to enjoy the advantages of buying online.
In this sense, the Internet is giving great opportunities to companies, since they can open new markets through electronic commerce, and not only within our borders but also outside of them. Although the Network is also offering its advantages to customers, who have found a place that adapts to their needs without time restrictions and in which to compare prices at the click of a button without leaving home.