{"id":53191,"date":"2023-11-11T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/11\/bnpl-expands-beyond-its-roots-thats-a-good-thing-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2023-11-11T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T17:00:47","slug":"bnpl-expands-beyond-its-roots-thats-a-good-thing-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/11\/bnpl-expands-beyond-its-roots-thats-a-good-thing-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"BNPL expands beyond its roots \u2014 that&#8217;s a good thing | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"article__featured-image-wrapper breakout\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><span class=\"featured__span-first-words\">Many people in the<\/span> U.S. associate buy now, pay later (BNPL) with the ability to pay off a clothing purchase or a Peloton in multiple interest-free installments. It\u2019s also associated with the growing concern that the strategy makes it easier for younger adults to find themselves in debt after spending beyond their means.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s only one use case for BNPL, which are essentially just small interest-free loans. There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/06\/22\/a-second-wave-of-consumer-bnpl-startups-is-taking-the-model-to-new-markets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing group of startups<\/a> looking to expand the BNPL model into other categories that are arguably more important than buying a new Apple Watch. Qomodo is one of them.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/11\/11\/qomodo-buy-now-pay-later\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people in the U.S. associate buy now, pay later (BNPL) with the ability to pay off a clothing purchase or a Peloton in multiple interest-free installments. It\u2019s also associated with the growing concern that the strategy makes it easier for younger adults to find themselves in debt after spending beyond their means. But that\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}