Ecommerce App For Iphone and Android
I was reading Practical Ecommerce today and was taken by an article relating to iphone and smart phone apps aimed at Ecommerce merchants who frequently find themselves selling products in venues other than their web stores. It could be Mall exhibitions , pop-up shops, traders shows, boutique faires, local markets or even coffee shops, but what it means is that ecommerce merchants and sellers are there looking for custom and selling merchandise.
The thing is that In the past, merchants had to run cash-only shops or process credit cards on a laptop, but extra outlets and a reliable Internet connection can be rare at these events. Now, merchants can process credit card transactions on their mobile devices with a host of mobile apps and dongles. (A “dongle” is hardware that attaches to a mobile device for a secure connection.)
There are over twenty-five really cool credit card processing apps which come with (a) highest user ratings, (b) good reviews and (c) the most downloads for each of the top three mobile devices: Apple’s iPhone and iPad, phones running Google’s Android operating system and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry.
It is worth considering if you find yourself selling off the cuff, I wonder how log it will take to replace the recognized card scanners and credit card processing machines.
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