The in-store checkout flow protects continuity while failing after a shopper selects an interest-free plan.
The merchant needs live stores to keep moving, while shoppers need a plan choice that completes without returning them to payment.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I picked the payment option twice, and the cashier just had me start over with my card.”
Frida Moreira · Store shopper
Uses interest-free plans for a larger purchase at the merchant’s physical checkout.
What is at stake
Completed interest-free plan checkouts at 18 stores have fallen to 61% after shoppers select a plan. You must weigh a fast recovery against protecting the merchant’s live checkout experience.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- checkout continuity vs. configuration correction
- cashier simplicity vs. diagnostic evidence
- fast recovery vs. controlled validation
- merchant confidence vs. temporary workarounds
Why Affirm
Interest-free plans depend on merchants delivering a consistent checkout experience across online and in-store purchases.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.