Recently, FNB have really been doing some great work in helping online shops offer their shoppers more payment options. The launch of the FNB Cell Pay Point solution is good news for the industry and it’ll empower a whole new market of online shoppers who don’t own credit cards. Aditionally, they’ve enabled quite a few shops  to accept payment with their loyalty points, eBucks. Recently www.wantital.co.za was the latest shop to integrate eBucks as a payment option. Let’s see if the other 3 big banks can play catch-up with FNB and make strides in empowering the online...

Starting your own online shop Introduction In case you haven’t been paying attention – the internet is an incredibly huge place these days. Millions of people use the internet every day and more and more people are becoming comfortable with the idea of shopping online. With the vast amount of customers at your finger tips world-wide, running an online E-commerce store is a good way of extending your business, or even starting a new business for extra cash. Online shops can be used to sell physical products, digital products or even services. What are your options? So, you’ve...

I attended my first HeavyChef session yesterday. Very interesting indeed! It was great to see so many people gathered to hear and talk about e-commerce. It’s an indication that people really are taking note of the impact e-commerce is having on the new economy. Andrew Smith from Yuppiechef and Fiona Phillips from Cybercellar gave some insights into their companies: starting up, influences, advice, etc. Good to hear about the success stories, and both in such niche markets. Also, a big thank you to Fiona for the Slaley Shiraz 2008 (Cybercellar was started in 1998, by the way )! Oh, and thanks to...

We’re always happy when e-commerce in South Africa is stimulated with exciting promotions and competitions. Here’s some info about the latest one from www.wantitall.co.za: Its time to browse to your heart’s content and fill up your shopping trolly with all that you want.  That’s why we are glad to announce this month’s MyBroadband/www.wantitall.co.za (http://www.wantitall.co.za) competition. All you need to do to enter is select any product/products to the value of around R 5 000.00 and post the link/s on the MyBroadband forum...

I’m glad I can finally write this post! What started off as an experiment to see if it was possible to compare flights in South Africa, has finally culminated in the beta release of our new flight search. And, it’s great (if I do say so myself )! What we’ve enabled you, the user, to do is compare flights and prices on one page on the site you’ve come to trust. From my own personal experience and that of family and friends, it’s such a time-consuming process to search for flights and compare them across 5/6 different sites – each time having to re-enter your...