Has the mobile tipping point arrived?
Twenty five percent of the world's leading internet retailers saw 50% of their sales from mobile over the past year. This is a first for the industry and a significant tipping point, knocking desktop and tablet sales off the podium. According to leading digital...
Get the best price for your car
While the used car market seems to be thriving on the back of high price inflation on new vehicles, consumers continue to struggle to get good prices on trade-ins. get\Worth provides some valuable advice and tactics to adopt to give consumers a better chance of a...
Domino’s Pizza launches the Feast Fixer
Domino's Pizza has added a new tool to their online ordering platform. The Domino's Feast Fixer allows customers to calculate the amount of pizzas required for a group of people and then easily place an order for delivery or collection. "Feast Fixer is pure genius! It...
New m-commerce solution for all businesses
A new app is offering businesses, large and small, a commercially viable mobile commerce platform. "The South African market has been touted as ripe for m-commerce for a while, but until now there have been no options for businesses beyond developing their own...
B2B marketplace slashes e-commerce costs
E-commerce business marketplace, XAfricaMart.com, offers SMMEs the ability to build their brand, promote their products and sell online to businesses nationally. "Businesses marketing and selling products such as office equipment, stationery, consumables, catering...
TFG merges virtual and physical stores
In an effort to further democratise the online shopping landscape in South Africa, TFG (The Foschini Group) has introduced Collect In Store, a delivery method which gives their online shoppers the option to pick up their parcel at their most convenient TFG store...
Carfind gives buyers a 360° view
Carfind.co.za, one of the pioneers of online buying and selling of cars in South Africa, is now offering 360° interior views of cars that are for sale. The 360° interior view is not generic. Each view is that of a real car - be it new or used. No library files are...
Financing boost for e-commerce players
South African e-commerce merchants can now finance their businesses easily and shoppers can make purchases on credit just as easily. This is the result of two collaborations entered into by PayU, SA’s largest online payment gateway. The collaborations, with leading...
@home now offers furniture online
@home, the homeware store, now offers its full range of furniture for sale on its online store. The functionality at www.home.co.za also enables shoppers to use drop-down menus to customise their furniture purchases, with 10 different styles and 96 different...
Tiger Wheel & Tyre offers online shopping
Tiger Wheel & Tyre have gone live with a new e-commerce website, believed to be an industry-first for a large South African retail wheel and tyre chain. All brands, models and sizes, of all the same wheels and tyres that are available at the company's stores or by...
Schneider Electric opens online portal for electricians
Schneider Electric has developed an online portal to connect with electricians and to help electricians manage and grow their businesses. The company's Partner Portal for electricians features a host of online tools designed to make projects and jobs easier and, it...
How to slash e-commerce cart abandonment
Kyle Rozendo, chief technology officer at SID, puts forward nine simple ways to make sweeping changes to e-commerce website performance. Global shopping cart abandonment on e-commerce websites is reported at anything between 60% and 70%. Yet simple tweaks to the...