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Social eCommerce: from billboards to Artificial Intelligence
The question is very simple: if you have a local business and you are in the 90s, your options to advertise your business are limited to signage, radio and TV broadcasters, word of mouth and little else .
If, on the other hand, you are in the years '20 of the new millennium, the situation is radically different: the advertising options are very numerous, as numerous is now the number of your competitors who can enjoy the network to sell products at reduced costs on the other side of the world.
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Integration with the logistics and shipping systems allows to automate, at various levels, the post-sales process. After the sales have been made on one of the channels (eCommerce or marketplace) and the orders have been acquired by bindCommerce, it is necessary to organize the shipment to the customer, and this is where the express couriers or logistics services .
When the company holds the products to be shipped in its own warehouses, integration with one or more express couriers is normally necessary, so that the shipping data is transferred to the system that prints the labels, the waybills and then trace the evolution of the shipment. The integration with the express couriers is sometimes necessary even when the shipment takes place in dropshipping, in cases where the seller sends his trusted courier to the supplier's warehouse.
Then we have the case in which storage and shipment are managed by an external logistics service. In these cases it is necessary to send all the order data to the logistics service, and acquire the result of the shipment from the same.
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The marketplaces are real markets where users (both business type and comsumer type) meet to make trades .
The great power of markeplaces is the ability to attract potential buyers available to sellers, reaching that "critical mass" which justifies the payment of fees by sellers in order to put sell their products.
Today we are witnessing the birth of new marketplaces which are attempting to climb the success already achieved by large and established markets. One of the problems of these new (and certainly smaller) markets is that professional sellers are discouraged at the entrance because of the enormous work necessary to publish thousands or tens of thousands of products, and then keep the availability updated.
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bindCommerce manages integration with the main eCommerce platforms, both open source, and SaaS ( Software as a Services ).
When the company uses an ERP or takes its product catalog from some dropshipper, bindCommerce can manage the population of the eCommerce site by publishing the products on the eCommerce platform, useful both in the initial phase (first publication) and for subsequent updates. For each publication / update it is possible to choose whether to publish all the available data, or only some of them (e.g. only prices and / or warehouse availability).
When the company does not manage the post-sale phase on the eCommerce site, bindCommerce can manage the download of orders from the eCommerce platform to other systems, such as the company management system or the system that manages shipments.
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bindCommerce manages integration with multiple management platforms, both for local installation, and for systems in cloud .
The integrations allow you to take the products stored in your ERP and send them to the online world, complete with all information made available by the management software (sku codes, descriptions, categories, prices, attributes, availability of stock, etc.). ). On the contrary, the management of orders by the ERP is managed, and in some cases the exchange of post-sales information (such as the shipping date and the courier's tracking code).
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Price comparators
Price comparators are price search engines that search for and compare the prices of products present in numerous e-commerce sites throughout the Internet, giving the possibility to sort items by price, look at the opinion on the store, on the product and much more. other.
These are not product sales sites, but portals that advertise the offers of sellers, in which the user can evaluate the best offer and, by selecting the desired item, will be redirected to the ecommerce site of the seller who proposed the offer.
In order to perform these comparisons, price comparators acquire specific data feeds from online sellers (in various formats, mainly csv and xml) that describe the products themselves and the relative commercial conditions under which they are offered. bindCommerce offers an integration service to provide many price comparators with the data feed in the expected format.
There are horizontal price comparators (not specific to a particular product sector, which embrace multiple categories) or vertical (targeted on specific sectors).
Below are reviews for some of the price comparators reviewed by bindCommerce. At the bottom of the list are presented (for historical memory) the comparators that we had found in our collection of 2012, and which today are no longer operational.
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