Belgium is a small, dense, genuinely bilingual e-commerce market, which makes it deceptively easy to under-invest in. A brand that ships a single French-only checkout, guesses Dutch versus French from the browser instead of letting the shopper choose, and only accepts international cards is not competing on product — it is quietly filtering out a large share of otherwise-ready buyers before they ever reach payment. Cart abandonment in this context is rarely a pricing problem. It is a friction problem, and friction is fixable.
Where checkout friction actually comes from
The pattern repeats across audits: forced account creation before a shopper can even see the total; shipping costs and VAT revealed only on the last screen instead of on the product or cart page; slow-loading mobile checkouts on connections that are fine everywhere else on the site; and a payment page that defaults to card-only when a meaningful share of Belgian shoppers reach for Bancontact out of habit and trust, not lack of options. None of these are hard engineering problems. They are decisions, usually made once at launch and never revisited, that quietly cap conversion for years.
A checkout built for how Belgian shoppers actually pay and browse
- Guest checkout by default, with account creation offered only after the order is placed
- Bancontact displayed alongside major cards from the very first payment step, not buried in a secondary menu
- A manual FR/NL language switch always visible, never silently overridden by browser or IP guessing
- Full landed cost — VAT and shipping — shown on the product and cart page, not revealed for the first time at the final step
- Mobile-optimized forms with autofill and minimal required fields, since most Belgian checkout sessions now start or finish on a phone
INSIGHT
Removing even a single unnecessary form field from checkout tends to move completion rate more than most brands expect — and it costs nothing to test. Before investing in a full redesign, run a strict A/B test removing one field, one screen, or one required account step at a time. The compounding gains are usually bigger than any single 'big idea' redesign.
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