Minister for Communications Alex White T.D, today encouraged qualifying small businesses to take up the Government’s trading online voucher scheme, which offers grants of up to €2,500 to help Irish companies sell online. Speaking on ‘Cyber Monday,’ which sees a surge in online Christmas shopping, Minister White also urged consumers to buy Irish. “As people […]
Visa Europe has revealed that Irish online shoppers are set to spend €22 million on Monday 1st December, the busiest day for online shopping this year, which has been dubbed ‘Cyber Monday’. This represents a 17% increase on last year’s figures. The card company is forecasting that there will be approximately one million eCommerce transactions […]
Parcel Motel, the round-the-clock delivery service for online shoppers, have released research detailing the online spending habits of Irish men and women. A survey of over 6,000 online shoppers has revealed that over €2.4billion* is spent a year online by Irish men and women on goods being delivered to their home, workplace or Parcel Motel. […]
Update: If you’re using Amazon.co.uk, the hashtag is #AmazonBasket, i.e. I just bought: 'Billionaire Boy' by David Walliams Reply w/ #AmazonBasket to add this via @KindleUK http://t.co/r6pHQK3W1J — Conn Ó Muíneacháin (@conn) May 6, 2014 As if it wasn’t already easy enough to impulse-buy from Amazon, they’ve gone and added a new feature using Twitter. […]
It’s a big day for online retail, and consequently for credit and debit cards, but millions of customers of RBS and its subsidiaries in Britain and Ireland, including Ulster Bank, found themselves unable to use their cards online or at ATMs yesterday. The banks’ mobile apps and internet banking services were also inaccessible for a […]
Black Friday was big in the US and a lot of Irish online retailers also cashed in on the “big day”. But what about “Cyber Monday”? Several online vendors are running deals today including Amazon – they’re offering a Kindle Fire HDX with a £30 discount today along with many other deals Think Geek are […]
We mentioned Parcel Motel a few months ago. It’s a fantastic service and I’ve been using it for both business and personal use for the last few months and it’s saved me time and money. A lot of UK retailers either do not ship to Ireland or charge much higher rates to do so. With […]
A lot of retailers take on extra staff for Christmas. However in the case of Amazon’s US operations the number of staff involved is huge. The online retail giant has announced that they’ll be hiring more than 70 thousand full-time seasonal staff this year! That’s a 40% increase compared to 2012. The company will retain […]
Realex Payments have released another graphic. This time round it’s a visualisation of Q4 2012, which of course includes the Christmas ecommerce activity. It’s pretty interesting to see what the busiest times of the day are as well as the breakdown of the types of cards used along with a wealth of other information:
Irish online payment provider, Realex Payments, has announced significant growth. In a release earlier this afternoon the Dublin based company announced revenues up by 28%, transaction volumes up 44%, client base increase by 74% (!!!) They’re now processing 1.5 billion euro a month on average! During the year Realex Payments signed up an additional 3,550 […]
