Expert Report

Unwrap holiday checkout trends

Dedicated to helping you succeed during the holiday season

See what’s inside

  • H1 2024 vs. H1 2023 transactional data
  • Key intelligent payments and fraud orchestration strategies you can use now
  • Regional outlooks
  • 3 topline predictions
  • 5 big seasonal trends
  • And much more…

Consumers are on the hunt for a good deal this holiday season — Are you getting their attention?

The holiday season is a critical time for merchants, with the golden quarter offering unparalleled opportunities for sales growth. Our 2024 Holiday Report, based on real-life global transaction data, provides valuable insights into transaction growth, payment preferences, and fraud rates.

ACI’s holiday report offers a unique analysis and expert insights that reveal areas of transactional growth, fraud threats, sector performance and four consumer behaviors impacting payment trends.

Key Predictions*

13%

increase in Q3 2024 preholiday sales vs. Q3 2023

209%

increase in digital wallet use vs. H1 2023

237%

increase in Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) H1 2024 vs. H1 2023

>1800%

average cost of synthetic identity fraud

Reap higher seasonal rewards

ACI helps merchants increase seasonal sales and prevent real-time fraud with trusted solutions.

ACI Fraud Management

An AI-enabled solution orchestrating 10,000+ data points, identifying a transaction’s real identity and exceeding market averages to ensure merchants sell more, lose less and maximize margins

Digital Identity Services

Monitor and identify consumers’ behavior to eliminate behavioral anomalies, verify device identity and optimize conversion rates at checkout

ACI Payments Orchestration Platform

Enable customer journeys across commerce channels, accept payments, prevent fraud and optimize your payments journey with ACI’s true payments orchestration platform

Lifting the lid off consumer expectations

Get everything you need to keep payments shining this season — all wrapped up
and ready to go.

*ACI payments intelligence data