PILOT

Pay Later Pre-Qualification

Introducing prequalified spend amount to PayPal customers based on their history with PayPal, payments and outstanding balance.

UX Designer

Role

Figma, Miro

Tools

6 months

Timeline

Design Thinking

Methodology

Design Thinking

Team

PRODUCT MANAGERS

UX DESIGNERS

CONTENT DESIGNER

SOFTWARE ENGINEERS

LEGAL COMPLIANCE

RISK MANAGEMENT

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL

What’s Pre-qualified Amount?

Estimated amount to spend with Pay Later products (Pay in 4 only for launch).

Pre-determined & calculated on the fly for the PayPal customers.

Merchant- agnostic in the app & merchant driven upstream.

GOAL

Business Goals

Test & collect data to see if the feature will trigger more Pay Later usage.

Create a holistic driver to checkout and merchant upstream.

Pilot to a smaller group of approved customers to gather data.

Fine-tune the experience for launch, provide competitive edge.

Understanding Customers

Constraints & Challenges

Different spending amounts. Upstream vs. application vs. other touch points.

Spending amount for Pay in 4 vs Pay LaterShort-term comprehension issues. 

Pre-qual application vs pre-determined. Confusion about when to go through an application.

No engineering scope for Upstream in Pilot test.        Post-pilot enhancement are expected.

RESEARCH & ANALYSIS

What We Know About Competitors

Affirm

Afterpay

Klarna

Measuring Success

Survey Responses
CEP, PPXM
Social Media
Customer Reviews.

Positive Impact FTUs
Transactions/ Account
Increase in TPV
Info Icon CTR.

Reuse
Loyalty
Customers Number  Visiting Pay Later Hub.

DESIGN THINKING

Experience Tenets

Design Explorations

Team brainstorming various design directions of presenting Pre-Qualified amount in the hub.

Strategy For Launch

After discussions between Design, Engineering & Product a decision was made to launch a pilot version first, fast-followed by next the release.

Pilot 

Initial pilot release will allow customers show masked pre-qual amount on a click, without any heavy-lift animations.

Next Release

Next release showcasing a more comprehensive design is intended to be a fast-follow after the first data & KPIs are gathered and analyzed. 

Pilot Version

Next Release