Portfolio Mastercard Click to Pay

Mastercard
Click to Pay

A frictionless checkout experience that lets customers pay in just a few clicks; securely, at any participating merchant; powered by Mastercard's Click to Pay solution.

Mastercard Click to Pay
Role Experience Designer
Company Mastercard
Platform Mobile & Web
Scope 80+ Merchants Globally
Overview

Turning checkout from a friction point into a competitive advantage

The Challenge

Online checkout abandonment is one of the biggest revenue leaks in e-commerce. Long forms, repeated card entry, and an inconsistent experience across merchants were costing customers time and costing merchants conversions. Mastercard's Click to Pay promised to fix this — but the solution only worked if the checkout experience felt native, trusted, and effortless on each merchant's platform.

The challenge was designing a single, cohesive Click to Pay checkout experience that could be implemented consistently across 80+ merchants in Australia and worldwide, each with their own design systems, technical constraints, and customer expectations.

My Approach

  • 1Audited existing checkout flows across merchant partners to understand the range of technical and UX constraints in play
  • 2Designed the end-to-end Click to Pay checkout experience — from card recognition through OTP verification to order confirmation
  • 3Created and presented the new checkout experience directly to merchant stakeholders, aligning on flow, copy, and interaction patterns
  • 4Collaborated closely with merchants' solution architects and design teams to adapt the experience to each platform's requirements
  • 5Established a shared design specification that gave merchants a clear, agreed-upon implementation target

From a single flow to a scalable standard

01

Audit & Align

Reviewed checkout patterns across merchant partners and mapped the edge cases — guest vs. returning users, single vs. multi-card wallets, mobile vs. desktop breakpoints — to define a flexible but consistent design baseline.

02

Design the Flow

Designed the complete Click to Pay checkout journey: email recognition, card selection, OTP verification via SMS, and order confirmation — optimised to reduce steps and reinforce trust at each stage.

03

Present & Negotiate

Presented the proposed checkout experience to 80+ merchant stakeholders. Facilitated working sessions with solution architects and design teams to address integration constraints and reach alignment on the final flow.

04

Specify & Deliver

Produced a detailed design specification agreed upon by both Mastercard and merchant partners — covering interaction states, error handling, accessibility requirements, and responsive behaviour for seamless implementation.

Impact & results

80+
Merchants Onboarded
Click to Pay checkout experience delivered across Australia and worldwide
3 Clicks
To Checkout
Reduced the end-to-end payment journey from a lengthy form to three key interactions
100%
Merchant Sign-off
All merchant partners reached agreement on a unified checkout specification
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