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MobiCommerce participated in India Ecommerce Expo held at Sheraton Bengaluru , Brigade Getway, on 25th June’ 2015. Indian Ecommerce Expo is one of its kinds Ecommerce Trade Exhibition in India with participants and visitors from all around the country. The theme of trade Exhibition is “Sell your Products Online, Learn about E-commerce”. The main highlights of the IEE were – E-commerce Market Places and Service Providers showcase, E-Retail / E-business organizations showcase and Startups ADDA showcase.

The company showcased its product “MobiCommerce” which can build mobile app for a magento store in just few clicks. The product has been well-accepted and praised by the audience because of its features and long-tailed client list from across the world. The Mobicommerce already has marked its presence in the E-commerce market with more than 500+ downloads, 250+ stores have built apps using the product, and 100+ clients have purchased this product.

The company is happy with the ecommerce business growing rapidly in India and people are interested in knowing about new products and accepting them.

Indian Ecommerce Expo witnessed more than 6000 visitors and some of the big ecommerce names were included in participants list such as Snapdeal.com, Shopclues.com, Sociomize and many more. IEE is a great platform to showcase products such as MobiCommerce which can be charioteer is revolutionizing the coming E-commerce Era.

This week marked the arrival of Paytm gateway into MobiCommerce payment options and methods. MobiCommerce has now introduced Paytm gateway as one more mode of payment. This option is available under their Supported Payment Gateways and Methods. It’s a faster, smooth and widely accepted payment method to complete your transaction in MobiCommerce Site.

CEO, MobiCommerce says “We are working round the clock to provide our customers with best of the best features. Various payment methods are Points of Parity when it comes to online transactions. Looking at the growing demand of our product and wide acceptance of Paytm, we have incorporated it in our payment methods.” The MobiCommerce customers now can enjoy their shopping with Paytm Wallet also.

MobiCommerce team heartily congratulates MartMobi team on the successful acquisition by Snapdeal.

Hyderabad-based MartMobi has a mobile-specific platform and solutions that allow small and medium-sized businesses and brands to build mobile stores and apps that can connect with customers’ existing back-end systems very similar to what MobiCommerce does.

This acquisition is one of the smart moves by Snapdeal to take it ahead in eCommerce war against 2 major competitors as MartMobi team is highly efficient and can strengthen Snapdeal’s mobility platform which is used by 75% of its customers. It will not only strengthen its mobile presence but also attract more vendors to sell their product on this marketplace. By acquiring this technology, snapdeal may offer mobile apps to their sellers and open new revenue models as well.

We wish for a great success ahead to both teams with this endeavor.

In order to enhance the user experience MobiCommerce made some technological enhancements. We understand the importance of time and the mindset of mobile shoppers thoroughly, a mobile shopper would judge mobile application based on the mobile performance and the user friendliness. Considering the user experience MobiCommerce leverages latest technology and enhances the performance of the apps.

We understand it becomes very frustrating for the mobile shoppers which leads them to just dropout from the application and no business for the mobile store owner.

Our application experts have better cache technology which has improved the application three times compared to earlier. This has drastically reduced the loading time while navigating between two pages of the application. The enhancement has proved to be a reward for those mobile apps owners who had been facing complains from their shoppers for their app being very slow at the same time loss due to shoppers dropping out from the application due non user-friendly application.

Post making the enhancement live, during the testing phase we came across some amazing facts which are an achievement in its own we noticed:

• Initially application loading was taking 20+ Seconds which has now reduced to less than 4 seconds,
• Initially Product Listing page was taking 7 seconds which now takes less than 2 seconds,
• Earlier the Product detail page was taking 7 seconds to load which now takes less than 2 seconds,
• And all the other pages were taking 7 sec which has now reduced to less than 2 seconds.

We wish an amazing shopping experience to all the app users who are using applications build over MobiCommerce.

MobiCommerce recently enhanced its robust app builder to enhance the mobile shopping experience of the users. The enhancement includes multi store facility where users get the opportunity to browse through a store in their local language.

Multi language mobile app is a big win-win for the mobile store owner as it caters to shoppers globally. The multi lingual facility is ideal for those store owners who offer their ecommerce site in multiple languages allowing them to make payment in their local currency. The newly added feature allows users to track their order categorization and track their website traffic whether the order is through mobile shopping or through website; this helps them to plan their marketing activities.

These newly launched features leaves no scope of keeping your customers away from your online store. The localization app would give them the confidence and trust on your store. This enhancement is surely going to add value to the online store owners making their store accessible to non-English speaking countries.

MobiCommerce enhances the payment gateway options by adding new names to the list of existing payment gateways. A few of the leading payment gateway MobiCommerce already supports are PayPal, Authorize.Net, PayFast, Paymill, and the new leading names MobiCommerce now supports are Checkout, 2Checkout, Payu, CCAvenue, Paypal Standard and Paypal Payment Pro.

Choosing an ideal and reliable Payment Gateway is the most crucial task as it involves exchange of confidential data such as credit card number, PIN number and other personal data between the shopper and the merchant. The image of an online business is always gauged with the hassle free and easy check out process that a client experiences and is able to make the payment easily. These chosen payment gateways supported by MobiCommerce makes sure that the data remains confidential and ensures security while paying online.

These additions will allow online shop owners to offer the right payment option and shoppers to use the preferred payment option in order to make easy payment. By offering multiple payment gateway options customers always have a way to pay.

MobiCommerce v1.3.1 released a few days back is truly one of the biggest transition. The upgraded version of MobiCommerce justifies the “do-it-yourself” concept.

The new Version comprises of the below upgrades:

Magento Plugin Feature

This feature replaces the “Let us build app for you” concept, which was too time consuming and later lost interest of the potential customers as they had to depend on us to create the app for them and sending the URL to download the application in their respective device for their review. This entire cycle was too tedious and time consuming. The latest upgrade replaces it with “Magento Plugin Feature” which provides all facility into magneto admin panel so that it becomes handy for potential customers to create, personalize, test and buy the mobile app through their admin panel itself and not to depend on MobiCommerce team to respond back.

Also a buy now link has been added to the admin panel which allows the customers to buy the application right from the admin panel of their magento account.

Create New Mobile App

Through the “create new mobile app” in the admin panel potential customers can create the app right from their magento login. Simply by filling up a small form android demo app link and mobile URL link will be emailed to customer instantly which they can download and review instantly.

Though process for creating IOS apps still remains manual, where client will have to submit their UDID, mobicommerce team will create the app and push the download URL link into client server. Client can will download the app and install it on their iOS device, and can review it.

Other additions

Other additions such as adding “overview” tab under application settings which will display add details such as License Type, App name, App Key, Demo Mobile app URL to download, Mobile website URL and Buy now action buttons. Addition of push Notification, where mobicommerce team can send out push notification to the clients these messages will display in the admin panel under “Notification” section.

“Buy NOW” action point has been added to the Magento Admin Panel. so now potential customers can buy the apps right from the admin panel.

The newly enhanced features will prove to be a great contribution to the emerging mcommerce industry.

Now that iOS 8 has been released a lot of developers are geared up to release the games and apps so that users can take utmost advantage of the spicy features of the latest version of OS. MobiCommerce is not an exception though; while iOS 8 amazes the users with the enhanced features and improved user experience, MobiCommerce also moves ahead with the enhancement and has made the application compatible to iOS 8.

To spice up the mCommerce genre MobiCommerce now supports iOS 8 and enables users to create iPhone native Apps which will be fully functional as well as responsive which can be operated over iPhone and iPads. The Application is all set to be used by users who have upgraded their device to iOS 8.

We are pretty sure a lot of Magento fans like us were eagerly waiting for a Magento theme that is intuitive yet responsive. Well the wait ends and here comes Magento CE 1.9.

Magento CE 1.9 comes with a lot of new enhanced features to improve the user experience to list a few:

• It is Responsive: Since the version emphasizes on responsiveness, it has been designed to for the customers to view information in devices and screens of multiple sizes.
• Enhanced Header/ Menu Structure: To improve the user experience and keeping the design most simple a lot of menus have been condensed and re-structured in a drop-down option.
• Improved Check Out: The improved checkout process allows users to change the quality and also payment option which leads towards smooth checkout process.

Magento 1.9 is a real step towards improvement of functionality and performance and we are glad to announce MobiCommerce Supports Magento CE 1.9 and our MobiConnector works on Magento 1.9 and seamlessly communicates with mobile App. You can easily Build Mobile App for Magento 1.9 Now, with just a few clicks.

MobiCommerce the smarter way of moving your e-commerce business to m-commerce is all set to cater to the needs and demands of the industry. The easy App builder enables you to start your mobile store within just few minutes without any professional training. The robust platform comes with dynamic themes to choose from based on your line of business. An application built over MobiCommerce platform functions as smooth and easy as any other e-commerce website and gives all the basic to intricate functionalities a customer might use while making an online purchase.

New App Features

• The Application will support all the languages supported by the site
• Supports all the payment options which will be there on the web store
• The App also supports PayPal Mobile payment option

Content Management System:

• Site Admin can link the App with their social media pages; supports almost all the popular social media platforms i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest, Blog.
• Site Admin has access to updating the below company information:
  • Company Name
  • Address
  • Enter Email Address and Phone Number at the front end for users to call the store owners directly.

• MobiCommerce provides total 7 pages to be managed;admin has all the rights to enter information based on the requirement. Any page left blank will not be displayed at the front end.
• Admin has the controls of defining below pages:
  • Page Title
  • External Page (Yes/ No options)
  • If it is external page than admin can enter the site URL in the “URL” field which will appear while browsing the App
  • If there is no external page than it will have a “Content” fields with HTML editor (with limited features) to enter the info.

User Module:

• User friendly user module enables a user to login and sign up without the checkout Process
• A systematic order history and order details can be viewed by a user upon logging in
• Facility of adding favorite items to the wish list for future purchase
• Product search via entering Keyword in the search box facility available
• End user can enter the promotion / discount code while checking out for Payment