Metrics

Abandoned Cart Rate

Abandoned cart rate is the percentage of shoppers who add items to a cart but leave without purchasing. Historically 65–75% across e-commerce.

Baymard's most-cited figure is 70% across desktop and mobile, with mobile slightly higher. The biggest causes: unexpected shipping costs, account-creation friction, payment errors, and slow site speed.

Cart abandonment is the single largest source of recoverable revenue for most stores. Typically representing 3–10× more lost revenue than failed acquisition campaigns.

Best-in-class email recovery sits at 5–8% of abandoned carts; SMS gets 4–10%; voice agents recover 18–32%. The compound effect of all three running together is what moves the headline number.

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