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Enhance your customers’ omnichannel experience

Customers expect personalized shopping, tailored recommendations, and secure transactions at every interaction with your brand. Aduna APIs enables you to deliver relevant, connected experiences across all channels. Use network-enabled insights to better understand and engage customers through mobile devices and digital touchpoints while maintaining highly secure and trusted transactions.

Responding to changing customer expectations

Rising consumer demand for seamless, relevant, and secure experiences puts pressure on retail and e-commerce brands to personalize and build trusted digital engagement. Meeting these expectations is increasingly complex due to growing data volumes, privacy regulations, and siloed systems. Several factors are converging to drive these trends:

 
  • The expansion of mobile-first shopping and interactions through apps, SMS, and digital loyalty programs increases friction during loyalty program sign-ups, resulting in higher customer drop-off rates.
  • Consumers expect offers and experiences tailored to their preferences, behavior, and location. 
  • Evolving data privacy concerns make it harder to track and target customers and collect essential contact information.  
  • Disconnected networks, shopping channels, and metadata hinder consistent and contextual omnichannel engagement.
  • Security and trust are central to customer loyalty, but a single breach or fraudulent offer can quickly undermine confidence.
 

Building connected omnichannel marketing communications

Retail and e-commerce brands aim to deliver consistent, personalized experiences across mobile apps, loyalty programs, SMS, and email. This starts with verified identity, validated contact information, and secure accounts. Trusted sign-up and login processes form the foundation for effective marketing engagement, and Aduna APIs support these outcomes.

 

Confirm mobile phone numbers

The Number Verification API confirms mobile number ownership in real time by verifying directly with the carrier’s network. It reduces friction by operating in the background with minimal or no user input. Use the API to enable seamless, secure account sign-up and login on any application, improve marketing campaigns delivery, and protect loyalty accounts from fraudulent or duplicate registrations.

Verify customer identity

The KYC Match API compares your customers’ information with verified “know-your-customer” data from their mobile network operators. Use this API to segment audiences more accurately, tailor promotions to verified individuals with higher conversion potential, and prevent identity fraud and fake accounts during onboarding.

Mitigate fraud and account takeover

The SIM Swap API provides real-time information about recent SIM card changes associated with a mobile phone number. Use it to trigger additional security checks when suspicious changes are detected. This mitigates the theft of loyalty points, unauthorized account access, and fraudulent redemption.

 

Future APIs for retail and e-commerce brands

APIs that support trusted omnichannel engagement address brands’ immediate priorities. Aduna continues to explore future use cases to drive differentiation, innovation, and operational resilience across the digital commerce ecosystem:

 

Improving connectivity and QoS for devices:

Enhance network quality and connectivity to support high-value inventory tracking and reliable POS transactions on smart and connected retail devices.

Protecting accounts with multi-factor authentication (MFA) and user verification:

Balance security and the user experience with continuous, behind-the-scenes verification.

Securing data in motion:

Use network-level security to safeguard sensitive retail and payment data as it moves between systems, partners, and channels.

Ensuring safer, smoother payments:

Maintain transaction integrity and prevent fraud with network-powered verification as you add in-app payments and embedded finance offerings.

Reducing checkout friction:

Improve user experience and accelerate mobile transactions with accurate autofill and payment validation data.

Delivering contextual campaigns:

Provide more relevant offers, optimize timing, and measure campaign engagement with real-time location data that doesn’t rely on invasive tracking.

Explore our plans for QoS and Open Gateway APIs

Many of the emerging use cases will be powered by QoS and Open Gateway APIs, allowing you to manage performance, prioritize traffic, and create new monetization opportunities.

Innovation from the brands you know and trust

Aduna is a partnership of globally respected industry leaders committed to the success of retail and e-commerce brands.