Solutions
Solutions
At Hara Partners, we have a boatload of solutions to offer—I mean, we wouldn’t be a real company if we didn’t.
Primarily, we are known for our NetSuite-Magento Connector, which integrates Magento with the NetSuite payment system.
Some of our other solutions include the Sales Tax Magento Module, the Magento BlueCherry Connector, Bill Me Later for Magento, and Magento Health Check.
Solutions are also offered by our clients, as you can see on International Checkout Solutions‘ websites.
You can also read our posts on Paypal. As part of its ongoing commitment to furthering merchant interests by improving the customer experience, Paypal has recently announced its plans to offer two new Magento apps to the e-Commerce platform’s users, “in-Aisle Ordering” and “Order Ahead”, each of which promises to alleviate a common consumer “pain point” (as PayPal has termed those event that lessen the customer experience).
The first Magento app offered by the online payments giant, “In-Aisle Selling”, allows store owners to connect their Magento sites to “Here”, PayPal’s mobile POS application, and is intended to combat the hassle of checking-out by allowing sales associates to accept payments anywhere via any smart phone or web-enabled device. The second Magento app, “Order Ahead” is, as the name suggests, a gateway for customers to place, and pay for, orders directly from the app via any smart phone or tablet thus bypassing any lines.
The In-Aisle Selling offering promises to connect your Magento store with PayPal’s mobile point-of-sale app “Here” so that any mobile device can be turned into what PayPal has termed a “concierge” sales tool. Now, sales associates can smoothly close sales right in the aisle, including accepting payments and the full array of shipping options, just like using a regular POS terminal.
With that said, check out our Solutions page whenever you have the free time.
How BlueCherry Infinity Can Benefit Your Business
How BlueCherry Infinity Can Benefit Your Business
CGS’s BlueCherry Infinity Enterprise Suite provides clients in the fashion and soft-goods worlds with the tools to better manage their entire businesses. From the initial design concept, to visibility online. With a wide range of software modules, it allows retailers reduce operation costs and increase productivity. It also them to attract customer and gain visibility. What kind of company does not want to enjoy all of these benefits?
GlobalLink: translation everywhere, all the time
GlobalLink, a component of translations.com, was launched in 1999 as a tool to help streamline the multilingual translation process. With a claim of rapid implementation, and the ability to launch a website in “30 days”, there is nothing to install or integrate to enable this to happen, and no source files to manage (that cheer you heard was your IT team), nor are there project management or development costs (your web developers can’t quite believe it), despite the inherent difficulty of launching content such as this.
How Your Business Can Benefit From CGS’s BlueCherry Electronic Data Interchange
How Your Business Can Benefit From CGS’s BlueCherry Electronic Data Interchange
Constantly, fashion and soft-goods companies have to maintain visibility to generate purchase orders, profit and success. This means that there is no room for error. There can be no delays in shipping out orders, nor letting websites become out-dated.
How CGS Can Improve Your Company’s Operating Performance
How CGS Can Improve Your Company’s Operating Performance
There is nothing more annoying than managing your IT infrastructure. Not only is it complicated, it is time consuming. And it can be expensive. If your company does not have the resources in house to deliver these services continuously, your business could face revenue loss. Plus, it could make your clients doubt the efficiency of your business. But do not worry! You do not have to tackle all of these concerns and focus on your business at the same time. Instead, you can use CGS’s broad range of services for infrastructure, application development and hosted solutions.
Toll free numbers – are they worth it?
Toll free numbers (freephone) do exactly what they say on the tin – they’re free for the dialing party to call. In the USA, they are commonly signified by an 800 number, and regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. In the UK, they begin with 0800, 0808, or 0500 (they’re usually British Telecom numbers). They may not be free from cellphones, but they are from landlines.
Free Shipping – How It Can Raise Your Business’s Average Order Value
Free Shipping – How It Can Raise Your Business’s Average Order Value
Many online retailers offer free shipping to their customers. But only if they spend over a certain amount of money. For example, $50. This technique has already generated success since customers will add more to their carts. They will do this to reach the free shipping threshold. But what if your online retailing business can gain even more profit by utilizing this free shipping technique?
Pitney Bowes Extends Reach of E-Commerce
Pitney Bowes is extending the reach of e-commerce with Cloud technology. The global e-commerce and shipping solution provider has created SendPro. SendPro is a cloud-based shipping solution created to keep track of business’s transactions. This technology will help people manage shipments with all of their different carriers.
What is Pitney Bowes’ New Cloud For?
Pitney Bowes is basically offering companies who use SendPro an all-in-one platform to manage their shipments and shipping costs. This way, customers will have access to the best and fastest shipping rates. This move by Pitney Bowes is a giant leap in e-commerce, because it meets the demands of the growing online shopping market.
How Will This Change the Game?
According to Business Insider, last month, the e-commerce company revealed its intentions to focus on helping e-retailers process orders and ship packages. Here is their basic plan:
- Remove friction from the cross-border e-commerce market.
- Ship more products internationally, which is easier since they acquired Borderfree, a company that specializes in selling and shipping products internationally.
- Grow the company’s e-commerce business– it grew 11% in 2015 to reach $215 million
This move is great for the company. This could provide many more opportunities for Pitney Bowes. E-commerce is not just about buying goods online; it’s also about billing and shipping. This new technology will help businesses ship their products on time, at a good price. Pitney Bowes is focusing on how to get their Cloud used by other businesses, now that online shopping is so popular. The new SendPro mailing and shipping technology is a big help to small businesses especially. Small businesses have been using outdated, single carrier shipping methods. But SendPro takes away the stress of shipping for e-commerce.
In addition to this, Pitney Bowes is offering a three-month free trial of SendPro. This way, businesses can decide for themselves if the product is useful for their company without committing to it. Currently, millions of people use Pitney Bowes for their services already.
How to Become an E-commerce Analyst
An e-commerce analyst is similar to a market analyst, except he or she looks specifically at transactions that occur on the Internet and researches ways to improve on existing sales goals.
A successful e-commerce analyst leverages data about the users he services to improve the conversion rate of the companies he works for.
Potential e-commerce analysts will need to know how to use analytics software and Excel, and the right communication skills to articulate the results of your data.
Step 1
Determine whether you have the right prerequisites for becoming an e-commerce analyst. A bachelor’s degree in market research, statistics or other related fields is usually required. Candidates should also have strong mathematical and analytical skills. Good communication is highly desired because the ability to interpret and communicate results are essential.
Step 2
Get certified through a reputable source as an e-commerce analyst, or someone familiar with analytics software. The Marketing Research Association offers a certification that must be reviewed every two years. For a small fee, the applicant is granted access to an exam that tests his knowledge of e-commerce with a certificate awarded upon successful completion.
Step 3
Fill out an application for the job you desire, and include a cover letter. The CV should include blurbs that highlight your experience interpreting large amounts of data. Your resume should include examples where you have used Excel or analytics programs such as Google Analytics to discover important facts about customer behavior. You should also list your familiarity with e-commerce engines like PayPal, Amazon and eBay on your resume.
Step 4
Negotiate your pay after you get a job offer and think about your future possibilities. Nationwide, the number of market research analysts is expected to grow as much as 41 percent by the year 2020. As more data becomes available, companies have an increasing demand for workers to interpret it into something useful. The top ten percent of market research analysts earned more than $100,000 per year, with the lowest ten percent earning just above $30,000. The median pay for a market research analyst working in the information sector is $70,000.
How to Use Vsnap to Increase Online Sales
How to Use Vsnap To Increase Online Sales
Have you ever heard of Vsnap? No? Well, Vsnap is a genius idea.
Vsnap works as a video messaging tool for eCommerce. It lets retailers and sales people connect with their buyers through sending quick video messages. It works similarly like Facetime and Vine to establish a human connection between retailers and customers.
How Does Vsnap Work?
You can follow these easy steps to increase your online sales using Vsnap.
Firstly, you record a short video message on the web or on Apple’s mobile operating system IOS. IOS is mainly found on IPhones. These video messages should last about 60 seconds or less. Then, you share your video message via twitter or private email to the recipient. You can customize your email by adding the company logo, changing the font and editing in general. Customers can view these video messages no matter what type of device they possess. They do not even have to download anything to see your messages. This is a huge advantage because it is extremely easy for customers to view your video messages. It also makes Vsnap universal. Salespeople can also activate real-time alerts. A real time alert sends you a notification of when your customer has seen your Vsnap. It also lets you see if they act upon the attached documents or links that you have sent them.
What are the advantages of using Vsnap?
Vsnap creates a sense of individual connection between salespeople and buyers. This knocks down the cold cooperate wall, to establish a sense of human connection. Hence, Vsnap makes customers feel special and ensures them that your business cares about them. You do not receive a human connection via email or letter. Therefore, Vsnap is a much more personalized form of communication.
It is the perfect tool for people who have Face Blindness. Sufferers of Face Blindness cannot recognize faces – even the faces of their dearest family members. Vsnap helps these people put an image – a distorted image, nonetheless – to a name which they could not place via the written word of email or letter. To find out more about Face Blindness, go to: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-blindness-when-everyone-is-a-stranger-20-03-2012/
The increase of sales can be huge for online businesses. An established human connection promotes a sense of friendliness and encourages your customers to trust you. Vsnap is a really useful tool to have. Many businesses have had a great experience using Vsnap. They have seen a great increase in online sales and have developed friendlier relationships with their customers. Vsnap users include online career school Penn Foster and Boston-based, women’s fashion line Zoora. Penn Foster wants to be successful in online schooling; therefore, the personalization of video messaging is crucial. Vsnap is useful for smaller businesses like Zoora as it creates a personal touch between retailer and customer. It also helps them stand-out from their competitors who do not communicate with their customers through video messaging. If your business does not use Vsnap already, you should definitely consider it.
Vsnap loves to meet new customers and help you email like a person, not a robot. You can buy Vsnap for $33 a month. This fee gets you unlimited Vsnaps and allows you to customize emails. Hara Partners had the pleasure of hosting CEO of Vsnap, Dave McLaughlin at our November eCommerce meet-up: http://www.meetup.com/New-York-eCommerce-Meetup/events/215279532/ He gave us great examples of how short videos increase customer satisfaction and sales. Vsnap really is the perfect video messaging tool for eCommerce as it can increase close rates by as much as 34%. If you would like more information about how to get Vsnap, contact us at: http://www.harapartners.com/contact-us/