Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts

February 02, 2013

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.








May 16, 2012

QR codes help some smartphone shoppers to make their decisions and purchases

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QR Code on product packaging and/or at the stores make it easy for customers to get more information about a product. Makes it easier to make an informed purchase decision.

April 03, 2012

"Canada’s first‐ever virtual store" pops up in Toronto, a QR Code lovers dream come true

By on April 2, 2012 at 9:33pm in Mobile News
If you’re in Toronto and take a trip to the lower level of Brookfield Place (corner of Front and Bay Street) you’ll see what new online retailer Well.ca has dreamed up. “Canada’s
 first‐ever
 virtual 
store” was created and they’ve basically outfitted the walls with images of products such as Tide, Pampers, Old Spice and placed QR (Quick Response) codes under each item. The hope is that those passing will potentially scan an item and have it delivered to them.  The latest comScore report showed that Canadians are not really fond of QR codes, stating that “In December 2011, more than 1.4 million Canadian smartphone subscribers scanned QR Codes with their mobile device at least once in the month.”
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Qryptal has a florist doing the same and it worked well especially during the busy Valentine's Day period. Made it easier for customers who came by the store to browse and order on the go. Read more.