Good news for merchants who want to switch to Fedex or add them as an additional partner to meet their shipping needs. InstanteStore is now integrated with Fedex. Merchants can pick the Fedex service of their choice when configuring their shipping methods which offers real time Fedex shipping rates to customers.
News & Events
Alibaba Breaks Record In China’s Singles’ Day 2014
What a super duper year it has been for Alibaba. Their IPO launch blew away investors’ expectations with the highest IPO raised at $25 billion. And today is China’s Singles’ Day. It looks like everyone in China bought something online! For those of you who are in the dark, China’s Singles’ Day can be considered America’s Thanksgiving weekend sale rush. The only difference is that it’s all happening on one day – 11.11.14.
MCX CurrentC To Challenge Apple Pay
Talk about bitter rivalry. Apple Pay made headlines from a successful launch and within only 72 hours got a massive 1 million credit card signups. However, all does not seem well with some of the major retailers who had previously come together to form MCX (Merchant Customer Exchange) lead by Walmart.
Apple Pay Rocks Digital Wallet Market
Payment pioneer PayPal got their world rocked with the launch of Apple Pay recently. Bundled with the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, Apple intends to make headway into the payments industry by offering a smooth and easy way to pay for stuff at a touch of a button. Apple is currently working with Stripe and is aggressively signing up with banks and card issuers like Visa and MasterCard in the States before expanding to other countries.
Twitter Goes Audio
Twitter seems to be coming up with more innovative ways to encourage their users to stay longer within the Twitter environment. Last month they started allowing users from selected areas to make product purchases from some of their partners who are offering rare and limited edition products. You can read about it here.
New InstanteStore Website Launched
Well our brand new website sure looks like a breath of fresh air. We’ve taken the effort to do some massive spring cleaning so that visitors and customers won’t be overwhelmed with all the information that we previously had on the old website! We hope you like the new InstanteStore website design. It just went live a couple of days ago.
MasterPass By MasterCard Makes Payment Easier
MasterCard launched MasterPass last year and it has been growing steadily throughout the world as an accepted digital wallet. Countries such as South Africa and Singapore just launched MasterPass this year and it’s catching on fast in the Asian region as a convenient way of payment.
Checkout Faster With PayPal One Touch
PayPal One Touch will be a game changer for shoppers who likes to use apps to buy stuff. You know how it is. When you find something you like, you have to add it to the cart, click on checkout and fill in all those nitty credit card details.
Amazon Local Register Bumps PayPal
Amazon recently launched its own credit card reader and app called Amazon Local Register. Good news for local businesses that are located in the States. Amazon is charging a flat rate of only 1.75% per payment compared to the 2.7% that PayPal is charging. The flat rate is available until 1st January 2016 provided merchants sign up by 31st October 2014 to take advantage of this special offer.