Need for Multi-Vendor Mobile App?
The multi vendor mobile application will be the future for the eCommerce marketplace. If you want to grow rapidly in the e-commerce industry then you need to adapt to the latest technologies.
The idea behind in order to move from eCommerce business to eCommerce marketplace is about the business growth.
Nowadays everyone wants a magnificent success in the eCommerce marketplace. Thus the mobile application is contributing a superior role to maintain your existence in the eCommerce business world.
Letting the customers buy the products on the go, by just a few clicks & the order has been placed. The vendors without any desktop or laptop can manage their inventory, orders & products from anywhere, just by using the application.
The eCommerce marketplace can help you to create a competitive environment for your competitors.
What is Souq.com?
Souq.com is the biggest e-commerce platform in the Middle East, delivering its services to total 8 Countries.
Souq.com allows you to browse from a number of categories like Fashion, electronics, mobiles, tablets, perfumes and many more, at much-discounted price than other supermarkets or websites.
A Subsidiary of Amazon, acting as an arm in the Middle East region.
Souq.com had a total of approx. 2015 semi-automated fulfillment centers in U.A.E, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait & Egypt which help sellers to stock their inventory other than at their own stores.
According to the sources its around 62 % of people at present uses online shopping platform in UAE, this is number is increased up to 25% from 2017 which is a significant increase in the number of users.
Hence souq.com understand the pattern shift and provides their best in class e-commerce services and major/minor products in different categories to its customers.
In the year 2016 titled as best e-commerce website in the Middle East region, it also attracts 45 million visits per month making it a step above the competitors.
Souq.com App
As we know e-commerce needs an online presence to let its customers reach out your servings at ease. And if we are talking about giving excellent shopping experience to our customers on the go,
Then the mobile application is a must to have an option for your e-commerce marketplace business.
Souq.com understands the need of having a mobile app & launch its mobile application for both IOS & Android platforms.
With the help of this app, you are allowed to browse from over 600,000 products from approx 31 categories with multiple features & functionalities like:-
- Track Souq.com orders.
- Pay in EMI
- Edit your profile and change password.
- “Buy it again” feature for grocery & daily needs.
- Price drop alert
- Multilingual Support
- RTL Support
- VAT registration
- Select country
- Manage orders
- Multiple payment methods.
- Multiple Shipping methods etc.
Now the question arises, How to start an application just like souq.com?.
For this, we at webkul have created Multi-vendor mobile apps for the leading e-commerce platforms like Opencart & Magento, with the latest functionalities & features which would help the sellers as well as the application user to experience the features on the go.
Now let us showcase some of the similarities between the webkul created Multi-vendor apps & the souq.com app.
For the proper understanding of features in the applications, you can find some images of both the Souq app & of our multivendor apps.
Souq app images are in left & our multivendor apps in the right
1. Multilingual support:- The applications support multiple languages i.e Arabic & English helping a wider number of audience as they can find their understandable language.
2. RTL Support:- The applications support RTL Layout along with the change in language.
3. Special offers & Wishlist:- Our applications as well souq app provides special offers feature like in order to do a standard marketing practice via email, social sites etc.
Also, both have the feature of the wishlist for the customers so that they can add their desired items and can purchase them later.
4. Coupons Discounts:- Both the applications offer coupons for discounts on the various product range. Most of the coupons provide tremendous value.
5. Shipping methods:- The applications provide multiple product shipping choices for their customers as the customer would satisfy only if their product purchased will be delivered as per the shipment selected by them.
6. Social login:- In both the applications we can connect to the apps by just signing by our social networking accounts.
Note: It is the customizable (paid) feature. If you want this feature in the Mobikul Mobile Application then it will be done through customization.
Customization Cost: 50 USD for each social login like Facebook, Google+, twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest etc.
7. Seller Feedback & Review System:- This feature allows the customers to see review & feedback of the sellers before purchasing the products from that particular seller.
These are some of the listed features that exist in our Multi-vendor mobile apps and in souq mobile app.
Now let us see some of the additional features that would make our multi-vendor marketplace apps a step ahead as they have all the essential features and functionalities that would work perfectly as per your business needs and strategies.
Here we will see features present in both our Opencart Mobikul Marketplace app & Magento 2 Mobikul Marketplace app.
MULTI-VENDOR
Our Multi-vendor marketplace apps, provide very beneficial features, for both the customers and for the sellers.
And the best part of our marketplace apps is that no other separate application is required for the seller to manage their store, Seller can easily manage their products, orders through the same application only, unlike Souq separate seller app.
Let us showcase some of the features present in our marketplace apps & Souq sellers app.
- Separate seller Dashboard page:- Here every seller has their own private seller profile page as they get in a normal marketplace website.
- Sellers collection page:- In our Applications customer can view the collection page of the multiple sellers and purchase a product from the desired seller.
- Seller locator via Google app:-The customer can identify the seller as per their location of the store. The customer can view the seller’s location from their profile page via google map.
This feature is present only in our multi-vendor apps.
- Seller Admin Chat:- It’s a live chat feature. This feature is most significant because the seller can address any query to the admin and can get the quick or immediate responses from the admin and vice verse.
This feature is present only in our multi-vendor apps.
- Seller Order Management:- The seller can easily manage the orders from the application like creating credit memo, can mail the credit memo, generate the invoice, shipment of the order.
The seller can look into the customer details & check the status for the orders.
- Seller Add/ Edit Products:- Both the apps give an advantage to its seller to add the product for the application.
With the help of this feature, the seller can easily add new products with the help of a mobile device. The seller can now add products to the store from anywhere at any time
- Contact Seller:- With this feature on the application, the customer can easily contact the seller if facing any query regarding the products and offers.
USER-FRIENDLY
Our Multi-vendor marketplace apps are very user-friendly in order to provide the customers & sellers hassle-free UI. The features
- Sign-in via Mobile Number:- In Magento Multi-Vendor Mobile App you can get the benefit of the easy sign-in process for the customers without any need of entering the email address. The customer would just enter their 10 digits mobile number and that’s all.
Note: It is the customizable (paid) feature. If you want this feature in the Mobikul Mobile Application then it will be done through customization.
CUSTOMIZATION COST: 200 USD
- One time passwords:- Simply send SMS, one-time password(OTP) to users by using the Magento Multi-vendor mobile app which helps the users want to make important transactions over phones. OTP SMS is an ultra-secure way because the users have complete ownership of their mobile devices.
Note: It is the customizable (paid) feature.
- Sign-in via Finger Print:- This feature of our Magento Multi-Vendor Mobile app enables the most secure way of login into one’s account. The customer will use their fingerprint and that’s it, the app will open instantly.
- Voice search:- In this, the customers are only required to speak the needed word or product name, which gets recognized and a set of a relevant result is displayed to them. This feature can find out in both the Opencart & Magento Multi-Vendor Mobile app.
- Compare Products:- The feature of our Magento Multi-Vendor Mobile app help the customers to compare the products before purchasing them.
Additional Features
- Offline Mode:- This feature can be found out in our Magento Multi-Vendor Mobile app, which enables the customers to view the already visited pages by them, this would help them to access the application any time.
- Wallet system:- Now your customers can make the online payment from their application Wallet System via using the mobile application. Wallet system basically acts as a prepaid account in which money can be added by the customers and help them to buy the products by using that money from the wallet.
Note 1: To use this addon, you must have our Mobikul Mobile App Builder.
Our Mobikul Wallet System for App is fully compatible with our Wallet System For Magento 2 Module. To use this add-on in the Mobile App, you must have installed Wallet System for Magento 2
Our Mobikul Wallet System for App is fully compatible with our Opencart Wallet System Module. To use this add-on in the Mobile App, you must have installed Wallet System for Opencart
- Tensor flow feature:- This feature helps the customer to search for the product by just capturing the image of the product using their device camera.
The Suggested result will be shown on the same screen where the customer can choose the particular option and can look for the desired products.
Note: It is the customizable (paid) feature. If you want this feature in the Mobikul Mobile Application then it will be done through customization.
Advance Features
Some of the advanced features of our Multi-Vendor mobile apps which will make your mobile app to compete in all the area of the technology.
- Shipping Method:- Shipping method like Aramex is supported by our Multi-Vendor Mobile applications for the customers residing in Middle-east.
- Payment Methods:- Payment methods like Sadad are integrated with our Mobile apps which helps the Saudi customers to purchase the products using their Sadad accounts.
- Product sharing:- Our Magento Multi-Vendor Mobile App allows the product to be shared over the social media.
- Multi-Currency Support:- Our Opencart & Magento Multi-Vendor Mobile apps support multi-currency support feature.
- RTL Support:- Supports RTL (Right to left ) languages like Arabic, Persian & Hebrew and LTR (Left to right ) languages at the same time. The complete view and template also get changed according to the RTL or LTR language selection.
Product Management from the Multi-Vendor application & Souq seller app
With the help of our Multi-Vendor mobile applications, you can manage your products easily just like from Souq Seller app, the seller can easily perform the product management.
- The seller can easily add the products with the help of the mobile application. Here, the admin will enter all the products details like its, SKU, Attribute set, category, name, price, short description, special price, the weight of the product, quantity, product image etc.
- The seller can view the list of their products which can be edited or deleted from the “My Product List” section. The seller can easily choose the products with the help of the filters.
That’s all for the blog. Now, if you want a multi-vendor application which has features to that of Souq app and other beneficial additional features you can use our Multi-vendor mobile apps to maintain your existence in the eCommerce business world.
You can visit our store Webkul to explore more beneficial add-ons for your eCommerce Marketplace and Mobikul store to explore our innovative and developed stand-alone CMS based mobile apps.
Disclaimer–
Souq.com is a registered trademark. Webkul is not a partner or an affiliate of Souq.com. This blog is only for the user perspective.