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...
2017 heralds a brighter future for e-commerce
ICT professionals admit that 2016 was a tough year, but those who are positioned at the edge of technology trends application are confident the tide is about to turn. Next year South African businesses should prepare themselves for a digital wave spearheaded by smart...
What’s the right price for a second-hand car?
How do you know if you are getting a fair price when selling a second hand car? Should you be aiming for book value, market value or trade-in price from a dealer? And what do those terms mean anyway? With more and more people downgrading their vehicles due to tough...
TFG adds online delivery option
TFG (The Foschini Group) are pushing online delivery boundaries by introducing Deliver 2 Me - a convenient delivery solution which uses geo-location services (already used in apps like Uber) to avoid the need for specific street delivery addresses. The service was...
Online shopper: the lessons of 2016
In a turbulent 2016 for the consumer, it’s the online shopper that may have escaped with the least scars, as the online environment has become more flexible and secure. While the estimated R8,9-billion spent annually online in South Africa may not be on a par with the...
‘Tis the season to be vigilant online
As the festive season fast approaches, shoppers are looking to online retail to avoid the packed malls and the long, tedious queues. The good news is that South Africa’s online retail sector is growing at a steady pace, writes Cathy Smith, MD of Cisco Southern Africa....
Legwear Safari reduces abandoned online shopping carts
Legwear Safari - an online retailer that specialises in women's legwear - has noted an immediate decrease in abandoned shopping carts on its site following its decision to use Sage Pay as its payment solution. The solution has benefitted the company by making it...
SA’s Hyperli launches new online deal marketplace
Hot on the heels of Groupon's exit from the South African market, newly-formed Hyperli has launched a newly-curated online marketplace focused on delivering relevant deals to South African consumers. Collective online buying has been part of the South African psyche...