Milan Mathew

Daily deals sites like Groupon is declining recently. A number of affinity deal websites are taking over its place.  Would you believe setting up a deal website for an affinity group now become a simple process? Well,  it is.

Why Create a Deal Website?
If you are offering deals on your website to your members, then more of your members will visit your website consistently. In addition, it offers exclusive value to your members.  Deals will not only keep your customers consistent and convert them but will also increase trust towards your brand.

Here are some critical factors that you should know before a start,

1. Determine a niche
   To find a suitable market is one of the difficult tasks in this competitive field. I would say that is one of the primary and important factors that everyone should concentrate. For example, you can provide health, wellness and fitness coupons or deals. Or focus on baby product deals.
2. Setup your business
   Plan your business structure, name and owning a business license if required in your province.
3. Domain name and hosting
   One of the most significant tasks is getting a domain name that suites with your business name as there is already thousands domain are registered. For less than $100 you can buy a domain name and a year’s worth of hosting.
4. Build and design your website
   An attractive and fast site is one the key factor in your deal business. Nowadays most of the customers signing up by looking at the website design and functionalities only. If your website is no longer attractive, you may lose most of the customers. Remember, your goal is to create an easy to use the site that makes money, so avoid too many bells and whistles that can distract your visitor or slow your site down. Don’t forget to add a privacy statement and policies for both customers and businesses. And be sure your website is responsive as more and more people are using their phones and tablets to seek deals.
5. Referral Discounts
   Provide customers some discount for referring your website to their friends; this will increase your sales also and promote your store as well.
   

   iScripts Groupdeals

iScripts offers you the ready-made online deal website which is well optimized for both the web and mobile platform. iScripts GroupDeal is very cost-effective, easy to use and has plenty of extensions to enhance your marketplace features. Moreover, you don’t have to be a tech guy to build a website.

Let’s look more about iScripts GroupDeal. The platform is categorized into three.

Owner: This will be the owner of the App who has access to all levels. They have the privilege to create the vendor/business users to start their business with this system. They can create other access to its employees, generate reports etc.

Business users: This is the primary user level who joins with this system. This user can create the business, add the categories and deals corresponding to each group. They can create a normal deal, exclusive deals, and campaigns. This user can also get reports.

App users: End user can view the deals created by the Business users, get these deals with the click of a button. There is an option where they can use the barcode scanner to attain this deal. Another important feature for users is that they can look for deals which are nearest to their location. App users can send connection requests to their Facebook friends. There is an option for users to view their savings obtained though claiming these deals. 

Important features of iScripts GroupDeal:

Referral Program

• Under the referral center in admin
• Purchase a digital gift card from Amazon for referral amount
• Send to email/updated email
• Check action box after sending to notify the user in app

Adding Vendors

• Type vendor name in the appropriate format
• Allow all email suffix: no
• Send by Gmail: no, unless reports of transactional emails getting blocked
• Input address of the vendors

Transactional Emails Monitoring

• Monitor UC Users tab in admin
• Identify long strings of unconfirmed users.
• Can manually send them confirmation link by copying the link icon in the action column
• Can manually approve the user by selecting the checkbox icon in the action column

Reported Deals Monitoring

• Reported deal tab in admin
• Used to verify deals and reach out to vendors to confirm
• Can view the deal in the action tab through the eye icon
• Can delete the item through the trash icon once the item has been resolved

Marketing Program

• Marketing program tab in admin
• Creating territory assigns a user to a specific state, territory, and/or Vendor
• Ensure the email used is the same email the user signed up
• Start date will indicate when tracking and compensation starts for that user
• Different status levels can be achieved by surpassing user levels inputted in the left column under start date
• Compensation tracking at those levels is inputted in the right column under the start date

Mobile App User Features 

• Menu: Option to view the profile, Home, Activity, Discover, Free gift cards
• User Access
• Profile: We can see the name, designation. The user will have the Option to edit, See the favorites, View reviewed products/services, Savings, Connections and Find people.
  • Find people: Option to find people by clicking the icon at top right(Connect) This option can be used to connect people, connect with our phone contacts and Facebook friends(will ask permission to access)
  • See Favorites: Option to view added favorites and option to add favorite as well. Clicking on the list will take it to details screen.
    • Add Favorite: Clicking this will show a page which shows major service providers. Clicking on them will add it to favorites by saving.

• View reviewed products/services: Here we can see the reviews which we have provided. The reviews are updated based on the latest on top. Clicking the listview will take the user to review. Saving will repost with the latest review. The user can view status like a newbie with a badge.

Have questions about our web software and mobile apps and how it can work with your existing business or online business idea? Call us at (312) 423-6728 with any questions you may have. We’d be happy to explain how our software works, including any additional business, needs you may have. We also offer custom development of web and mobile apps at a reasonable rate.

Mobile Apps have changed the definition of everyday activity in human life. It has been an essential part of our lives and why not we do almost everything with the help an app. The world is connected to mobile apps. Crafting some excellent mobile application for your business & start-ups will always be of an effective step in improving your business strategies. It would be really helpful to transform recognized ideas into stunning & inventive mobile Apps. But before all that, considering some successful ideas for developing Mobile Applications will increase the work output than expected. Implementing some better strategies for your mobile app can drive the traffic to your business page and lead you to the highly profitable business.

Don’t you think there are some impressive ways of designing mobile applications? Yes, it would be wise to build these applications by considering some proper guidelines.

Let’s have a check at a few of the same.

• Platform Consideration
  Considering the platform in which the app is intended to develop is of prime importance. It varies on the user’s interest. The platform is as important as other criteria for the design and development of the product. Whether it is Android or iOS and cross-platform, proper guidelines should be followed by the design team accordingly.

Some aspects related to Platform selection are,

• Functionality:
  Each mobile platform has its own functionality to be described. The development should be based on the sort of functionality you wishes to implement in your idea.

• User experience:
  The feedback generated by the users on the platforms will be different according to their needs. So it is the user requirement to be considered while selecting the required platform.

• Cost and Ease of Maintenance:
  Much of the cost that goes into having a mobile app occurs after the initial version is created. You may want to add functionality to the app later on or make changes based on user feedback. With a native app on multiple platforms, you’ll have to make any changes to each version of the app, which can be time-consuming and costly. Mobile Web apps are generally simpler to update and maintain since there is only one version. Hybrid apps are somewhere in the middle depending on whether the change needed is on the Web content or on the OS-specific code.

• Focus on Customer Benefits
  Application designs shall always be based on customer benefits only. Do not design something simply because you can reuse a pattern or component for another feature. Never consider the design made for an app be the final one since evolutions always occur in the phases of its development. Design patterns help in creating an outline of the products served. Always be of prime importance about how the result will benefit the customer.
  

• Optimized UI flows and elements:
  The end users are always pleased when the app gets easier to use. Optimizing the screen flows and UI elements will make the app run faster without delays. This itself helps users get attracted.
  The time the App takes to respond is something that is analyzed by the customers and thus they judge its flow. However, the network might be slow, the device might be running other tasks in the background, and certain operations required a lot of calculation. If a user perceives that not wasting time with the use of the app, the app will be successful. User Interface and elemental flow of an App can thus be clearly figured out by the design team.

• Scalability
  An adaptive feature that is required in Mobile Apps is the scalability. Hearing the term ‘Mobile’, we do take prior importance to handsets with lesser sizes. The point while considering phones is that we should rely our focus on mobiles, tablets, phablets and so on. While designing, they need to take an in-depth look at device interfaces and screen sizes.
  Syntax and layout should be aligned across these devices as much as possible, but we also want to leverage native platform guidelines and capabilities first and foremost. While for the design related to mobiles, try to include the necessary information in the sequence rather than flooding them with unwanted information. Small business owners use a phone to complete quick actions while they are not in the office, capture data, view content, then perhaps close it out and come back to take a look later.
  You want to make sure you can scale for multiple screen sizes, large and small, and not limit yourself to thinking only about the devices your products are being supported by. 

• Theme matching design flow:
  A unified theme makes the App more steady for its end users. The theme flow itself helps the customers to continue comfortably within the app. The designs required for various icons, notifications, color combinations, alerts etc should maintain perfect alignment. This sort of discipline keeps the attention within the app flow itself.

We suppose you are comfortable with the guidelines required for app development.

Do you have an idea or needs of your own? We, iScripts can create any mobile app, feature change or addition you may want. Customers all over the world have trusted our expertise and abilities. We will bring your idea to life at an affordable price. Finally, the choice you make today is going to set the foundation for the future of your business. It’s on you to decide whether you’d like to be one of the first.

The perfect combination – expert developers and a personal project manager. iScripts.com has the experience, the process, and the staff to build your web or mobile project not just to completion, but build it to “success“. We can provide you with our dedicated services the best the industry can offer.

At last, the most important reason why you should consider building your mobile app is customer loyalty. The choice you make today is going to set the foundation for the future of your business. It’s on you to decide whether you’d like to be one of the first.

Do you have any questions about our mobile apps and how it can work with your existing business or online business idea? Call us at (312) 423-6728 with any questions you may have. We’d be happy to explain how our software works, including any additional business, needs you may have. We also offer custom development of web and mobile apps at a reasonable rate.

Competition is helping every industry to improve to the next levels. Are you willing to stay competitive in a printing market where customers are becoming increasingly accustomed to more advanced technologies? Online printing and designing software has changed the traditional way of that business. Recently there has been a lot of changes in the printing industry being shifted to online designing sectors. The advantages of the later are utilized by many merchants nowadays. Thus the growth of the internet has opened up multiple avenues for new ventures to enhance their business offerings and increase revenue from online channels.

The process proves to be growing at a rapid pace and more and more offline printing businesses are adopting the internet. If you have plans to upgrade your traditional printing store to web-to-print business then you must get a clear idea about what you are getting into. Let’s have a check about few advantages related to the online printing business.

• Ease of transaction
  The user need not get worried about taking their plans right of to the printing shops and order the goodies. The platform enables the customers to buy their desired stuff within a few clicks. It gets easier for the printer too as they don’t have to explain everything to each customer. All the information, templates, and products are online. They just have to sort out the orders accordingly.

• Reduce costs
  The total cost gets reduced even though the quality and standards remains the same. The printer can now focus only on the products instead of refurbishing his shop and other things that are required when dealing face-to-face with the customer.

• Faster Process
  The overall printing process gets much faster when everything is managed automatically. The printer receives the order, prints it, and ships it to the customer. No intermediate steps are involved in between. The printer does not have to hoard the orders until the customer drops in to pick up his order.

• Wide market
  While offline printers can just reach customers nearby or some fixed clients, web-to-print allows the business to transact beyond local, state, and international boundaries. Printers can take orders from anywhere in the world, given they can manage appropriate shipping facilities.

On getting the merits of Printing Business, you would be really interested in improving your business with advanced strategies.

iScripts is one of the leading service providers in building web software. We have an extensive history of setting up and maintaining different pre-built solutions that help business entrepreneurs as well as start-ups to build their business to next level. iScripts has already launched a few years back a pre-built solution for online design and printing software – iScripts PrintLogic which helps much online design and printing business easy and quick. Now with the New version of Printlogic, you can easily deliver your customers their expected satisfaction.

iScript PrintLogic creates a door for your customers to quickly customize a product and purchase it online. With iScripts PrintLogic, you can create a site similar to Vistaprint and CustomInk from scratch, in your own home if you want. at the same time, if you have a print shop business to take online or integrate with your existing printing website,  iScripts PrintLogic is the perfect option.

Let’s check a few features of iScripts PrintLogic:

• Promo codes
  Promo Codes has been always the reasons for customers and merchants to have a great impact on sales. On the customer view, they prove to be the way through they get discounts. In the Merchant view, they are sources of sales increments. PrintLogic is equipped with Promo Code addition feature in its latest version.

• Fundraiser Feature
  This innovative feature makes your business and your customers more active, where customers can involve in your printing and designing. Here,

• The user will create a fundraiser product and check out the same
• The user will get a shareable link and he can share the same with his friends/contributors.
• Contributors can access the link and place order. There will be a min quantity for orders.

In the admin panel, a new order listing menu will be added for fundraiser order.

• Stripe Adaptive Payment
  Stripe Payment Gateway is available in iScripts PrintLogic which will allow you to accept main credit cards worldwide and save sensitive credit card information in Stripe. Stripe is available in many countries and expanding more.

• PayPal Pro Implementation
  
  The feature which helps you to be more professional and lag free with the Advanced PayPal Pro payments. Paypal Pro allows the user to enter his account information on your website or directly from your form. The form visitor will never have to leave your website. There’s also more customization options to your form and the transactions on your website.

• Spam Free Emails
  Get yourself updated with email confirmations. The feature makes sure that the required information regarding your payments, customizations, orders and like so reaches you. Also don’t get tensed of the result, as our third-party SMTP gateways don’t even let them go to your spam folders.

• Alphabroder api Integration
  
  An advanced feature included in iScripts PrintLogic which helps you to add products directly into the pages without the initial uploading steps. The process is done with alphabroder api Integration.

• SEO friendly URLs
  The new PrintLogic comes with SEO friendly URLs which helps new pages to get indexed and displayed in search results faster at Google, meaning updates/changes to existing pages or products are able to be re-indexed in less time.

• Brands
  This feature makes customers purchase the product more easily and efficiently. A master table added for brands, customers would have the ability to choose the brand while adding a product.
• EPS File Format
  One of the major features of this version is adding EPS in output file format. Currently, the software supports multiple formats ( TIFF, PDF, PNG, JPG, SVG and .Zip). EPS, which is a useful file format for graphic designers and publishing professionals. Documents that include a vector or raster graphics often feature linked EPS files because the format contains information in a computer language that is compatible with most imagesetters and printers. Some of the advantages of EPS are listed below:
  • EPS files are considered an ideal format for importing into computer graphics applications. The capability to import an EPS file is an advantage worth considering if you make composite images or assemble them for use in printed materials.
  • The advantage of an EPS file is that it can be scaled to any size and retain its quality without getting pixelated.
  • They can easily be imported into other desktop publishing software, especially to edit logos and other designs.
  • They are recognized by printers, in which you can add additional information that will reflect the changes in the output.

Have questions about iScripts PrintLogic and how it can work with your existing business or online business idea? Call us at (312) 423-6728 with any questions you may have. 

Try the LIVE DEMO! For questions related to how you can navigate or take advantage of the platform, contact us at (312) 423-6728 or send an email to sales@iscripts.com We can also provide a portfolio of previous work. Don’t hesitate to contact us with a custom request. We can customize any script to fit your needs if required.

Latest trends in the restaurant market have attracted many people over the last few years since the technology started playing a vital role in redefining the restaurant. Availability of more advanced options in online business tends to make these apps more favorable and accessible for everyone. Almost each and every restaurant is established to offer customers a highly satisfying and convenient experience. Admittedly, the growth of any business depends on upon the revenue generated by operating it. This operating mode is now dealing with great transformations in the near future. With the growing trend of technology, mobile apps have become a need of our lives. There are apps available for almost everything.  Now we get our work done in just a few clicks, then why not ordering food from our favorite restaurants.

A number of such platforms like Grubhub, Justeat, Ubereats, Fooda, Zomato, Swiggy and their numerous clones in different geographies and niche markets proliferated recently. But it still leaves room for creattive entreprenuers to launch more. As far as technological integration is concerned customers seem to have developed a fascinating image. It has made things easier for them to get done with menu viewing and ordering activities. Information technology has not only helped the restaurant businesses’ owners to improve the quality of customer services, but it has also enabled them to go beyond their limitations in reshaping their businesses.

It is obvious to everyone that owning a mobile app is very important for the restaurant owners. Still many of them ignore this fact by assuming this unnecessary. Hereby listing some major benefits that restaurant owners can get and enhance their services simply by owning mobile apps for their restaurants.

• Best Customer Experience

These on-demand Applications helps restaurant owners to develop an enhanced customer experience. This may result in increased sales and reduced wait time. The feature of table booking is considered the primary feature. Though, it will not be the best strategy to focus only on that. The reason behind this is table bookings don’t satisfactorily contribute in ROI for the restaurant owners. But still, this helps the customers to confirm their space.

• Improved Accessibility 

On implementing these ideas, it helps us to find out all existing and possible approaches by which the mobile apps are able to make restaurants visible to the new users, and maintain existing customers. The latest mobile technologies help restaurant owners delivering the required information about restaurant’s location, menu, contact details, and so on. Moreover, an extraordinary and memorable mobile app design can connect more customers to the restaurants. 

• Digital Menu Card 

At present, most of the online restaurants provide Digital Menu cards. This allows end users to place their order online without much hassle and with just a few clicks on their phones. It provides end users with a highly convenient experience. It allows customers to choose the food item with the click of a button. Also, you can choose a restaurant according to your budget and preferences in terms of food items.

• Retain Users More Effectively

 Considering the variety of approaches that restaurant app developers adapt to retain users, user notification and loyalty programs are the more notable ones. With the help of loyalty programs, discounts, and rewards, restaurant apps, and table booking services can easily retain their users. Businesses can always keep their users informed regarding the latest deals via email or push notifications.

• Fast Food Chains 

Fast food chains will also eradicate the mediator’s role in booking orders as they will allow end users to book their order over the online platforms and mobile applications. It will make food ordering easier for customers. It ends up saving much time as it saves the time that a mediator takes to pin down the entire order. It is also easy to track the order delivery over a mobile application.
Once the customer orders the meal online then they can also track where the deliverer is. With the use of GPS technology, restaurant owners can also keep a tap on where the deliverer is and thereby strengthen the delivery process as well.

• Online reviews and ratings 

These days, end users are allowed to give their feedback or opinions about restaurants services. Often, customers prefer to view a particular restaurant’s rating or reviews on such websites to decide whether they want to visit there or not. If you are rated well on one of these websites then the chances are high that people will visit your restaurant once, at least. These reviews help the restaurant owners to plan their activities to enhance customer services according to these reviews as they get to know what sections have the scope for improvement.

In a very short interval of time, online food delivery system and restaurant mobile apps got a better image in the food industry. There exists a strong demand for web-based and mobile on-demand food delivery services just because the current focus is mainly on something only called ‘convenience‘.

Are you looking for a similar service platform that also promotes your restaurant business? Then the perfect solution available for you is the iScripts Netmenus. Let’s have a slight look at the features Netmenus provide.

iScripts NetMenus has introduced Uber model Service Marketplace for Online Restaurants. It will help you to manage restaurants, members/customers, products on the menus, orders, payments, and even generate reports as well as newsletters from the back-end of your online ordering system. The iScripts NetMenus software allows you to

• Stay competitive by offering online ordering
• Offer a wide selection of products on your menu or through multiple restaurants
• Streamline online ordering with our phone app
• Reduce the amount of cost and time by implementing this turnkey software and its automated processes
• Supports multiple restaurants or locations
• Use customer satisfaction and feedback to improve as well as determine which restaurants or type of restaurant to add
• Accept online payments or CoD
• Apply delivery and tax fees to the final order
• Promote and market your online food court or restaurant with a built-in newsletter and coupon code functionality.

Some incredible features with iScripts NetMenus are,

• Powerful Admin Panel

Gives power to Admin for managing operations centrally along with Maximum control over the site. All the features are controlled by the Admin. Google recaptcha implementation with admin panel disables/enable option also exists.

• Full source code

iScripts provides you with 100% customizable and modifiable program code which helps you to edit as per your wish. You can make the software exclusively for you with your skills.

• Multiple payment gateways

Supports direct credit card payments hence attracting more buyers. NetMenus supports many Gateways like Authorize.net, Paypal, Bluepay, Worldpay etc. It helps in providing Maximum flexibility for users

• Supports multiple products

Works on both simple products and advanced products. The application allows customization of food items ordered.

• Exciting and Entertaining

Comes with a pack of Multiple attractive themes to choose to entice more users, along with Slideshows and Ajax supported graphics, making your site exciting and entertaining

• Driver Module login for Kitchen APP and many more.

Afterall iScripts NetMenus comes with powerful iOS and Android mobile applications which thus makes the access to your ordering process more easily. The implementation of these apps permits all time access to the website. The Apps are available for the Restaurants as well as the users. Thus the restaurants can update their menu details even at any time irrespective of the location. The user app lets customers choose their favorite food items from the best restaurants available.

There are many other advantages like speed and user-friendliness if you decide to create your online ordering App. iScripts NetMenus is one perfect solution with its user-friendly apps.

Single Restaurant, Single Location (SRSL)

Single restaurants can set up online ordering through the use of iScripts NetMenus. In this mode, customers can send orders and payments directly to the restaurant owner. In turn, restaurant owners can increase orders placed and generate additional revenue by expanding their customer base.

Get an idea of how to use the system and see the full list of features in action by using our online demo. Have additional questions? Contact our team at (312) 423-672

Have questions about our web software and mobile apps and how it can work with your existing business or online business idea? Call us at (312) 423-6728 with any questions you may have. We’d be happy to explain how our software works, including any additional business, needs you may have. We also offer custom development of web and mobile apps at a reasonable rate.

Deliver VI is British Virgin Island’s first online food court and meal delivery system. Deliver VI provides an interactive and user-friendly interface that provides users with a quick, easy and real-time reference for their next order.

Did you know that entrepreneurs in different parts of the world convert their potential business ideas into money by using iScripts business scripts in building their business platform?

iScripts Online Restaurant Delivery Software- iScripts NetMenus forms the main platform for DeliverVI to provide customers with the accessibility of information and the convenience to place an order without calling a busy restaurant or leaving their desk.  iScripts development team also worked on some of the custom requirements from the client like the functionality for a delivery driver to know when orders are available for pick up and the delivery address, option to enter a separate address for Billing Address and the Delivery address while making an order, set delivery fee to have a base amount plus a percentage, restaurant opening/closing hours turning off and on at the appropriate times, facility for drivers where  admin can send the order to the driver then the driver can indicate when the order has been delivered etc.

iScripts NetMenus is a complete online ordering solution, allowing you to instantly create an online ordering system for a single location restaurant, multiple location restaurants, or even create an online food court similar to GrubHub, Seamless, or Eat 24 Hours. This robust restaurant software is feature-packed and fully customizable to meet your services, especially with the new app. Provide your users with the ability to place reservations for dinner, right on their mobile device.

iScripts Netmenus also comes with both iPhone and Android App. These mobile applications are connected to and interact with your standard website. Customers can download the dedicated mobile applications for their chosen mobile platform. These will duplicate the function of the main website. These applications can also be found on Google Play Store or the Apple AppStore.

Some of the notable features of iScripts NetMenus are:

• Responsive Themes
• User Interaction
• Orders get placed as Email as well as fax
• Supports advanced ordering
• Provides numerous reports for admin
• Provides easy custom theme integration
• Locates closest restaurants preventing delivery delays
• Map and routing integration in order page of restaurant owner for each order
• Mobile Apps (iOS & Android)
• Kitchen Host App for restaurant owners

Using this complete system, you can grow your existing restaurant business while meeting new customer demands and staying competitive within the restaurant industry. By taking advantage of what iScripts NetMenus has to offer, your site will provide a wide selection of products (using your menu, or one created through multiple restaurants), streamline online ordering, accept online payments and much more. We’ve included a wide range of features in the software, making it a complete online ordering and delivery system, ready to go as-is. It can be customized to fit your individual needs, but not required for a full and operable site.

Online Ordering App for iOS and Android
This is nowadays extremely important for your startup.   A big part of the users who like ordering food online want to use their smartphones and tablets to place an order. The mobile design for the website can be a temporary solution to satisfy this need but having online ordering Apps will make a difference because your brand will be seen on their smartphone screens as an App. There are many other advantages like speed and user-friendliness if you decide to create your online ordering App. iScripts NetMenus is one perfect solution with its user-friendly apps.

 Get an idea of how to use the system and see the full list of features in action by using the free trial of our online demo. Have additional questions? Contact our team at (312) 423-672

Have questions about our web software and mobile apps and how it can work with your existing business or online business idea? Call us at (312) 423-6728 with any questions you may have. We’d be happy to explain how our software works, including any additional business, needs you may have. We also offer custom development of web and mobile apps at a reasonable rate.