Buy Valentine’s Day Flowers Using QR codes

Many retailers feel overwhelmed during holidays. One way to handle an overflow of business is to use QR codes as virtual sales assistants.

When your employees are busy, or still in training, your customers can scan QR codes to learn more about your products and can even place orders and make payments. You can also use this to extend your physical shop by placing the ordering QR Codes in other places as shopping walls.

Qryptal customer, Xpressflower.com has been using these shopping QR Codes for over a year now. Xpressflower.com is a major florist based in Singapore with 13 outlets spread all over the island.

Since we are approaching Valentine's day, I thought of sharing the mechanics of this special project.

In the backend, a QR Code shop is configured and unique QR Codes are generated for every outlet. This is done to enable order tracking so that proper credit can be provided to sales staff at every outlet and incentivize them to promote this new system rather than use traditional manual processing of orders.

The prices for items, categories, available delivery slots, payment integration are also configured in the backend. The slideshow below walks you through the scenario of a consumer scanning the code and ordering them.

The system has been working well and we are adding a few more features like self-collection. 

Contact us if you want to implement something similar for your business.

QR Codes for Signups with Payment Collection via PayPal

At Qryptal, we believe QR Codes are all about enabling your customers to do things NOW with their mobile, when you have their attention - rather than later, which often ends up being never (out of sight, ends up being out of mind).

One great use case is driving signups for your event, service, facilites booking etc.

Our users have been using Qryptal Forms to get the registration information for quite sometime but many such signups needed the registrants to pay as well. We have recently done integration with PayPal to make this a seamless experience for our customers as well as the end-users signing up.

End-User experience:
Let's say you are organizing a race and have created posters to promote it:

Once the user has filled up all the information you need, they are sent to the PayPal website to pay for their registration (it is important to note that payment information is entered directly with PayPal and Qryptal does not see the credit card info or PayPal account details).

After the user completes the payment transaction successfully with PayPal, Qryptal can optionally send an email to the end-user:

You as an organizer will receive two notifications from Qryptal:

• Registration Form Fill Notification: All the details, the user enters when she fills up the form to register (before being sent to PayPal to pay).
• Payment Notification: When the user completes the transaction with PayPal, we would send you another email so that you can reconcile your records.

Apart from above, both the merchant and the buyer would receive the usual notifications directly from PayPal.

You can try by scanning the code below. It will cost you 1 cent (all of which will be kept by PayPal).

You should also read this blog post to understand how Qryptal Forms work so that you can get an idea of what all you can do with this:
Qryptal Forms.

We chose PayPal because:

• Mobile Friendly: They have a great mobile checkout experience (you can try above).
• Worldwide: We have users worldwide and needed a payment service available to merchants in nearly all parts of the world.
• Secure: End users would be sending their payment information directly to PayPal. Not only do they support such flows but also have a great record on security.

If you would like to try Qryptal Forms with PayPal, send us an email with some details on what you would like to accomplish and our team would be happy to guide and set things up for you: