XCartWarrior is here now. MercuryMinds is so pleased to announce that we have opportunely launched a new X-Cart Support & Maintenance services “XCartWarrior” ventured by us for better handling of our customer issues and questions. We have grown up with X-Cart working for the past 5 years from version 4.x.x to the latest version.

Here are some of the key features of XCartWarrior:

• X-Cart Installation
• Upgrades & Security updates
• X-Cart website customisation
• Bug fixing in x-cart sites

These are just a few, there are vast amount of other features offered by our support service.
Just create an ticket and get help or assistance from our expertise at resonable cost. We hope our XcartWarrior will build life-long customer relationships and improve the overall customer support experience.

Visit XCartWarrior for more details about our new X-Cart Support & Maintenance services.

MercuryMinds takes privilege to announce that we have joined with Mobicart as its official partner and solution expert. We are the first in introducing the xcart plugins for mobicart with which you can easily build and manage your m-commerce store.

Mobicart is a platform for mobile applications which takes m-commerce industry to a new level of personalization and has been nominated for the ME Top 50 Mobile Innovators and also got short listed for the .Net Magazine Awards 2011.

Our service includes importing the categories and products from the X-cart store into mobicart as a native app store in the mobile where the customers can purchase just by exercising in their mobile phones. The Order details made via mobi-cart will be notified periodically to the ecommerce admin panel which avoids the possibility of losing order records and the available stock will be updated both in your X-cart store admin and in the mobile storefront when a customer adds an item to the shopping cart.

To know more, visit http://www.mobi-cart.com/experts/mercuryminds.jsp

We have finally fulfilled building a new eBay shop for shop4blinds.co.uk. They provide the biggest range of Blinds including Vertical blinds, Roller Blinds, Wooden Blinds, Skylight Roller Blinds and Blackout Roller Blinds at different styles, sizes and colours on eBay.

Shop4blinds Team wanted us to give a distinctive eBay shop design that will create a separate identity from the crowd. We did bulk product listing to automate the task of listing the items on eBay and product template handling which offers all the features their customers would expect from an advanced online shop.

Also the list of categories and product display details were done dynamically which offer your customers a first-class shopping experience. We anticipate to work with them in the future.

The new eBay site for shop4blinds can be see here: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/shop4blinds

The Blue Door Boutique’s new X-cart based mobile site has gone live. They yearned to make their store the best place to shop for ladies apparel and accessories.The Blue Door Boutique Team wanted to create a more user-friendly experience for mobile users. So MercuryMinds launched a new mobile website for them using “X-Cart iPhone and Android Optimized Theme” to meet their user needs to access their shop via Android and iPhones.

The new mobile site looks parallel to their desktop site thebluedoorboutique.com, but has been streamlined for usability on mobile devices. The mobile site users will be able to view the categories listed as drop down slider in home page and the products image listing will be re-sized based on the mobile devices used.  The site will allow mobile users to have a secured shopping experience and also easily navigate in check out process using the tabbing option. We look forward to work with them in the future.

For more details about our M-Commerce projects please click here.

To cater the need for fast speed load, we drastically change the theme of the official blog of MercuryMinds.

The redesigned blog features creative design to have a more modern aesthetic to meet today’s standards. Also features statistics on follow, like and share buttons to engage our fellow readers in social networking portals such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google Plus. You can subscribe to free email updates and know more about us with RSS feeds.

We hope you’ll find the new look to be cleaner and easier for reading.

Thanks.

Indian E-Commerce market is predicted to be one of the strongest economy according to the recent industry report, ‘E-commerce: A boon for the current economic downturn‘. “By the end of 2011, the e-commerce market in India had clocked close to Rs 50,000 cores.” it says. The current e-commerce market in India is around US$ 10 billion and has the potential to grow between $125 billion – $260 billion by 2024-25.

It proclaims, ” Today, consumers across urban India are confident enough to make purchases that exceed Rs 20,000 – 25,000 up from Rs 2,000 – 5,000 range in the recent past”. According to the report, “it estimates business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce, including both retail e-commerce and online travel
sales, will total to $18.7 billion in 2012, a growth of 21.9% over the previous year.”

The key reasons for the success of e-commerce are summarized below.
Shopping 24×7:
E-commerce open doors for shopping anytime where customers can make their shopping at ease anywhere and at any moment.

Reduced operational cost:
Online Business avail less infrastructural investment and associated labour costs which drives up the profit margin. In turn its benefited to the customers in the form of discounted pricing.

Easy to compare:
Easier and quicker to compare the prices of the goods online. One can explore products across global markets via e-commerce.

Safe & secure:
Online Payment method must be reputable and trustworthy. In India, all payment transaction providers are required to comply with the security requirements laid out by the Reserve Bank of India making the system more robust and reliable.

Increased reach for the merchant:
The customer finds the venture across geographic markets, the merchant too is able to display his product to customers in new territories that are now connected by the online network.

Social media trend:
With the growing support of Socialmedia the businesses have now begun to engage their customers by promotions, sales and new products are increasingly showcased through such channels and mobile apps.

These e-commerce developments may have been accelerated by the global economic downturn which may be driving consumers to find new ways of reducing their costs of living. The e-commerce landscape will continue to evolve rapidly as even more new start-ups are launched addressing existing and new market opportunities.

WaterFeatures2Go’s new X-cart based mobile site has gone live. The new mobile site is much more robust and will be much easier to navigate, especially for Android and i-Phone users. WaterFeatures2Go renders online sales in UK with the widest selection of high quality self contained Indoor and Outdoor water features for the garden. They are one of the internet longest standing water feature specialists at the best possible prices.

For WaterFeatures2Go, we developed a new mobile optimized theme to provide increased accessibility to their customers. “X-Cart Android iPhone theme development” detects the user device automatically and load the theme dynamically,whilst viewing the desktop site from your mobile is also possible. All the built-in features of X-cart, free shipping and the payment method configured in the online web store are supported by the mobile site.We look forward to work with them in the future.

The site can be see here:  http://www.waterfeatures2go.co.uk

Team spirit of our staffs in completing the Task

The Second Day (Mar 17th) is very special in our MercuryMinds chronicle and all of them gathered at the office at 10AM, the celebration started with the speech from Mr.Rajaram, CEO of MercuryMinds for the completion of yet another successful year and verbalised the glorified achievements of the company in the last year. Addressing the mercurians, Mr.Rajaram said, “As I look at the growth over the past 4 years since our inception, I am extremely proud of what we have achieved, and even more excited about our outlook for an equally promising future.”

In his keynote address, said – Our primary focus is “Restructuring MercuryMinds as an established consultancy at enterprise level to manage & deliver large scale E-Commerce, M-Commerce & Social Commerce projects”. Also had a presentation on the future initiatives.

He introduced the new management team, the first-level and second level leaders. Also walked the whole crowd through the history of MercuryMinds. After the speech the Directors cut the cake together and shared a brunch. Outstanding employees of Mercuryminds were given awards of excellence and service by Mr.Rajaram, mentioned each employee’s contribution to the company’s growth and thanked them individually. During the celebration there were different entertaining games and sporting events. There was a concluding dinner to wrap up.

MercuryMinds Team

MercuryMinds 5th FDC was extended to third day (Mar 18th) Team Outing to Mamalla beach Resort. The trip started at 5AM. We boarded a bus booked for us. That was just the beginning of amusement. The outset 15-20 breath was calm with everybody settling in as the bus departed. Soon the noise level went high since people wanted more activity than what was happening there. We begun with moving feet and body to music.
Here is the journey in pictures

We got a warm welcome from Mamalla Resort and started with a breakfast with beach view. Continued playing some outdoor games where people became participative the moment we began to engage them and the full team was in to water having lot of fun in swimming Pool and Beach.

We walked through the pavement and reached place were our lunch was arranged and clicking snaps of others who were eating instructing everyone to pose with the smiling face.

We took the evening snacks carrying on the photo session, then reached the bus at 6.30 PM and decided to finish our dinner on the way at Dhaba. Every one was tired and took the rest while returning. We ended up in reaching Office at 9:30PM . All together it was great memorable trip so far! Everybody on the trip had a real good time and the entire team bonded well during the trip.

Dymo.eu, an X-Cart based e-commerce store for the most economical labeling of almost anything at work or home. Their standard tapes provides dependable self-adhesive properties in a wide range of back grounds,widths and colours. Dymo has provided quality products and service to their customers from European countries.They have received product design award for the design of their products.

For Dymo, we redesigned the website to have a more modern aesthetic to meet today’s standards, which included widening the design as well.Built on a X-Cart platform, the site features a broad range of product available for purchase online and also developed the website that works multi-lingual German, English,French and Dutch which enables them to expand their service internationally. We look forward to working with them in the future.

The site can be see here: http://dymo.eu/