Best eCommerce Systems for Mobiles

13 years ago

There does seem to be many possiblities for SMS messaging, such as tee time management on golf courses , text reminders for salons, MOT centres, the medical professions etc.

I also wonder when theme parks are going to use them for cutting down queues on rides. Surely the technology is there to receive a text five minutes before your turn on the ride..... or maybe it is already being used.... I havent visited disneyland for a few years.

I have been looking into managing SMS campaigns from an iphone.... many services offer unlimited texts. There are a few apps for sending group texts. Admittedly it would have to be a simple campaign, and could use another service for collecting mobile numbers.

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ElaineBaker

13 years ago

I use wordpress for most of my sites and I've been using WP tap and your WSO Quentin for normal sites.

I have been experimenting with WP eCommerce Plugin and WP Mobile Detector for one particular site - check it out on your PC and mobile - angelheartart.co.uk - it needs tweaking I admit but I know my client wants a mobile friendly ecommerce site also and as they have approx 200 products I have been trying to find an easy way to do that for them whilst keeping the cost low.

I'm open to any suggestions and improvements

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IdeaFool

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ElaineBaker

I use wordpress for most of my sites and I've been using WP tap and your WSO Quentin for normal sites.

I have been experimenting with WP eCommerce Plugin and WP Mobile Detector for one particular site - check it out on your PC and mobile - angelheartart.co.uk - it needs tweaking I admit but I know my client wants a mobile friendly ecommerce site also and as they have approx 200 products I have been trying to find an easy way to do that for them whilst keeping the cost low.

I'm open to any suggestions and improvements

I'm not certain how you're doing this right now, but your post made me think, as I am looking at implementing something similar. The best thing I've been able to come up with is, unfortunately, making a mobile webpage for each product with an order button and a "Return to Products" button on each one. The set-up will be cumbersome, but I think that it may be the best option until some readily available, mobile-optimized sql-like application becomes available. I haven't seen this done too often, except perhaps on ebay's website and video sharing sites. Y'know, video sharing site templates don't necessarily have to share videos. They merely call up an embedded vid. That embedding language could be changed to links to each product mini-site. Even though, again, the set-up would be cumbersome, the search capability would be intact.

Sorry for the stream-of-consciousness post here, but you've go my mind going.

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jspmedia

13 years ago

I think for free(open source) - WP solution would work but little bit of work... OSCommerce with Mobile Module..looks ok...

This looks interest also.. iPhone, iPad, Android, app builder, m-commerce, mobile shopping cart, CMS
Free service..

Magento Mobile looks good but cost.
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jspmedia

13 years ago

here is quick demo I set it up with Interspire Shopping Cart .. it comes with mobile module and it works pretty good..

Try it...

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Quentin

13 years ago

Its not the actual product listing I have a problem with but once the customer goes to pay at say Paypal their site is not optimized for mobile.

Is their any other systems you have found that are more mobile friendly.

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Jay Moreno

13 years ago

@quentin

Paypal has a full set of mobile guidelines and a real neat mobile interface, am not talking about their mobile app but actual mobile web interface, the documentation is tucked in deep in their developer site for what reason i dont know, i haven't had chance to play with it yet but it looks cool! i think its called MEC or Mobile Express Checkout

Paypals developer site is x.com

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Luke Bishop

13 years ago

Is this what your looking for?

https://cms.paypal.com/au/cgi-bin/?c...#id106SI0P0T5Z

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Jay Moreno 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Luke Bishop

Is this what your looking for?

https://cms.paypal.com/au/cgi-bin/?c...#id106SI0P0T5Z

hi luke

it is and it isnt - that looks like the older stuff they posted, its kinda confusing how they have it all organized, i noticed that references the australian portal for paypal

like i mentioned on x.com there search feature isnt straight forward and doesnt take you directly to the information you need? i remember one day spending several hours trying to just find a good start pointing - i recall downloading a bunch of pdfs

will try and find them...

now if its the same as express checkout just with a "mobile" identifier that would be great as you could simply "mobilize" a regular store/checkout and tie it into a regular express checkout process...

i would be interested in working with someone to setup a mobile commerce solution i know it would be useful for lots of people in this niche

i think the downside to using paypal express checkout is that it has a monthly fee associated with it, i know i use the virtual gateway as well as have express checkout enabled and its costing around $30/month EACH!
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javarog

13 years ago

Try opencart.com there is a free mod for mobile and a paid one,, this is open source and very fast script with many credit card gateways and shipping carriers,, the other one would be Ecwid.com,, this is widget based,, free and can be put on any platform easily,, even all social sites.. it has a wp and Joomla plugin.

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liza86

13 years ago

PrestaShop is a free, open source eCommerce platform that delivers a wide variety of features such as the full control of your inventory, orders, shipping and tracking, allowing you to manage your business in real-time. This eCommerce platform has a WYSIWYG editing tool for your products and the managing of images. Your online store can be customized at any time, accept PayPal payments, and manage customer based subscriptions. PrestaShop can send payments directly to your bank account, or your PayPal account.

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mobopt

13 years ago

Some mobile devices are not able to support ssl (https

so Paypal and other payment gateways will block the checkout page from those devices. Smartphones shouldn't have have problem with that though. There a lot of emerging payment gateways such as Bango.

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scotth

13 years ago

I have been targeting pizza restaurants. I was able to get white label with a company that lets me sale their ordering system and the site is mobilized. Here is a pizza site dibufala.com we did here in San Francisco...put the url in a smartphone. The company is called zonicordering.com

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jspmedia

13 years ago

Originally Posted by scotth

I have been targeting pizza restaurants. I was able to get white label with a company that lets me sale their ordering system and the site is mobilized. Here is a pizza site dibufala.com we did here in San Francisco...put the url in a smartphone. The company is called zonicordering.com

thanks..would you mind to share pricing info? whats your cost?

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Adrian John

13 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion.I think you'll have to just play a little bit with every system to see what is the best for an particular site.What about the other methods of payment? Like moneybookers or merchant services.If i don;t have paypal and i don;t want to pay through them..i just have an credit card, what could i use?

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mygold

13 years ago

SMS marketing is good right now because customer seek easy communication. Right now many of bank organization are providing banking service through sms whicever they need not to got to bank physically. Sending sms they get their info. so finally we can say that it increase business image.

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MaxReferrals

13 years ago

Quentin, check out UsableNet.com (no aff).

Leaders at what they do in the mobile space.

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MaxReferrals

13 years ago

Hearing good things about Mobi Cart. Free open source:
iPhone, iPad, Android, app builder, m-commerce, mobile shopping cart, CMS

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WillR

13 years ago

All the current ecommerce systems we use on regular websites will have to start thinking about going mobile and it won't be long until most of them are mobile compatible. If they don't then they will lose out big time.

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MobiCart

13 years ago

Hi Guys,

With regards to MobiCart, it handles native apps and web apps so you get the best of both worlds.

Native apps have a better UI, are much faster and are much more powerful. We're working on fetaures such as barcode scannnig, checkins, store locators, voice activated search etc.

Web apps work with your mobile browser so will work on any device. MobiCart web apps are also very easy to install, just one line of code needs to be added to the head section of your website.

Best of all, MobiCart is free. I tried to post some URLs for screenshots below but I don't have enough post counts on this forum.

If you would like to see some screenshots, please visit mobi-cart.com and click on the 'how it works' tab.

iPhone native app: (LIVE)

iPad native app: (coming September)

Android native app: (coming September)

Web app phone/tablet: (Coming September)

With MobiCart you can also import your products using our CMS, .CSV or by using our API.

Kind Regards,

Wladimir

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sbucciarel

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by MobiCart

With regards to MobiCart, it handles native apps and web apps so you get the best of both worlds.

Wladimir

Looks interesting. Checking it out.

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MobiCart

13 years ago

Hi Suzanne,

Thank you and I'd be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

In terms of integrating this with your current website, you can:

1) Use the (very) simple MobiCart CMS to build your store

2) Import your products as a .CSV

3) Use our API and build a true integration. You can automatically import all your products into MobiCart. Then when an order has been placed, MobiCart can push the order back up to your store. You can also extend this further and manage every aspect of MobiCart from your own website.

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Scitknot9

13 years ago

Wladimir,

Just took a look at your site....must say it looks really impressive. looking forward to the web app rolling out in September.

Should make life interesting for those of us who sell mobile websites to businesses.

Keep up the good work dude.

Scott

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Hi Suzanne,

Thank you and I'd be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

In terms of integrating this with your current website, you can:

1) Use the (very) simple MobiCart CMS to build your store

2) Import your products as a .CSV

3) Use our API and build a true integration. You can automatically import all your products into MobiCart. Then when an order has been placed, MobiCart can push the order back up to your store. You can also extend this further and manage every aspect of MobiCart from your own website.

Thanks again,

Wladimir

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MobiCart

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Scitknot9

Wladimir,

Just took a look at your site....must say it looks really impressive. looking forward to the web app rolling out in September.

Should make life interesting for those of us who sell mobile websites to businesses.

Keep up the good work dude.

Scott

Thank you Scott, it's really appreciated. Loads more great features on the way too.

Hi Wladimir

Looks very impressive, will keep an eye on MobiCart for the Andriod launch in September!

Cheers

Neil B

Thank you Neil. We have our new iPhone UI, language packs, live app preview and colour picker launching this week.

Then around 10 days later the iPad version is coming out, closely followed by Android and the HTML5 web app version.

Thanks again,

Wladimir

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Neil B

13 years ago

Originally Posted by MobiCart

Hi Guys,

With regards to MobiCart, it handles native apps and web apps so you get the best of both worlds.

Native apps have a better UI, are much faster and are much more powerful. We're working on fetaures such as barcode scannnig, checkins, store locators, voice activated search etc.

Web apps work with your mobile browser so will work on any device. MobiCart web apps are also very easy to install, just one line of code needs to be added to the head section of your website.

Best of all, MobiCart is free. I tried to post some URLs for screenshots below but I don't have enough post counts on this forum.

If you would like to see some screenshots, please visit mobi-cart.com and click on the 'how it works' tab.

iPhone native app: (LIVE)

iPad native app: (coming September)

Android native app: (coming September)

Web app phone/tablet: (Coming September)

With MobiCart you can also import your products using our CMS, .CSV or by using our API.

Kind Regards,

Wladimir

Hi Wladimir

Looks very impressive, will keep an eye on MobiCart for the Andriod launch in September!

Cheers

Neil B

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javarog

13 years ago

here is one its free up to 50 products,, not the best but it works
http://mdemo.ecwid.com

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javarog

13 years ago

If anybody is interested in online order site and its mobile ready this is the one I use and they have a white label for zero cost at least mine is..

eHungry.com - Online Ordering for Restaurants

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javarog

13 years ago

here is a link and it looks great on a mobile,, https://www3.ehungry.com/pizzacafe

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Jay Moreno

13 years ago

mobicart does look good but for those looking at a self hosted solution theres a wso on here based around a mcommerce script - its actually not that bad, if your a developer you could easily customize it to suit your needs, that way your hosting your own mobile cart as well as have full control of how it looks etc

its certainly a starting point if you are considering developing your own

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RobertLindsey 13 years ago

Options are changing rapidly. I tend to favor the eCommerce solution I work on (Order SM).

Focus is more on SMS interaction between merchant and patron but I think the transactional feature is a lot smoother for the user than all the other options available now. Would be interested in feedback.
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MaxReferrals

13 years ago

The top 4 players in m-com dev in U.S. retail, according to Internet Retailer are:

Digby
Branding Brand
Unbound Commerce
Usablenet

They are pricey, and range from $20k - $200,000.

Again, this is what many major U.S. brands (\Home Depot, Coke, McDonalds, GNC, etc.) are using to power their mcom.

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RobertLindsey 13 years ago

Order SM is free. I think we have a price advantage.
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RobertLindsey

12 years ago

Oh Yeah... Seconds (getseconds dot com) is free also and extremely feature rich.

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EricGibson 12 years ago

2 rather fundamental Q's for this newbie: I'm a little confused about what MobiCart is... When I study its website, it lists shopping carts you can hook to.... Why would it need to hook to other shopping carts if it IS a shopping cart? From the examples it gives, it doesn't appear to be a website bulider.... I get the impression it's basically an website builder specifically geared toward ecommerce only, ie not blogs, general pages, etc... and then it needs to further hook to a shopping cart that accepts cc payments, etc. Does that sound about right?

So I could use, say, WPTouch or Quentin's program for the general website builder, and then I'd further need to hook to a shopping cart and/or MobiCart/Shopping Cart?

This is a valuable thread!

thanks, Eric
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