“Can a European-born one-click checkout layer win the market Shop Pay and Bolt left under-served?”
Simpler was founded in 2021 by Rania Lamprou during the COVID lockdown in Athens, after she observed European merchants struggling with fragmented checkout stacks (payments, shipping, loyalty across multiple providers). The company offers a unified checkout-as-a-service layer across WooCommerce, Magento and PrestaShop. Explicitly positioned as a European competitor to Shop Pay and Bolt, which have focused on the US market.
Simpler was founded by Rania Lamprou, Alex Kyriakopoulos and Spyros Mandekis and is founded in 2021, headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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