Introducing Aphix PocketShop

Aphix PocketShop is a mobile application that is designed to work on your Android or iOS mobile phone. It is a B2B sales app designed to help your customers sell smarter. It is designed with a simple interface that allows your customers access their product catalogue, place orders and manage their accounts in an efficient and timely way. 

It complements WebShop, which is another of Aphix’s suite of eCommerce products. It does not have the same feature set as WebShop since it is designed to complement it; for example, it is currently not possible to filter products by brand in PocketShop.

Once you have set up the Aphix Digital Platform, it is straightforward to roll out a PocketShop with your branding.

Aphix PocketShop operates either online or offline.

Aphix SalesRep is a SaaS product

Aphix SalesRep is a SaaS product. This means that support, regular feature updates and security monitoring are all included so that no customer is left behind on older, insecure software and you can concentrate on your core business function. Or you can opt for some additional professional services to help you with your migration and roll-out.

Essentially, PocketShop is designed to help your customers sell smarter. This means that your customers can review or place orders wherever or whenever they wish to. Its key features are:

Account management: Prices and products can be managed from your central ERP and updated in PocketShop in real time.

Seamless login: Because customers can use the same login credentials as WebShop, they have automatic access to their order history, transactions, favourites and WebShop shopping cart without making any changes.

Centralised product catalogue: The product catalogue is centrally managed in the Management Interface, meaning that PocketShop uses the same category structure as the one set up for WebShop.

Order management: Customers have options around how to search for and place orders. Within PocketShop, it is possible to search by recently ordered products, by browsing the category tree, by using products marked as Favourites or by using the search facility.

Order processing: Your shopping cart is saved on your smartphone, so you can start an order at one time and finish it some time later. Two payment options are supported:

• pay by credit using a PO to place an order

• pay by credit card using a PCI compliant payment gateway. Currently, SagePay is the only payment gateway that is supported.

Branding: PocketShop can be tailored to reflect your company and brand. During set up, you can specify the colour scheme for banners, logos, app icon and app title. Some branding items can be changed in Management Interface, while others (such as the colour scheme) can not be.

Click Aphix PocketShop feature sets here for a list of features that are contained in Aphix PocketShop.

Aphix PocketShop is an app that you can download from Android play store or iTunes store. It consists of a top bar and a main content body and provides you with a number of menu options that allow you to place orders, view transaction and order history and more while you are on the go.

A detailed description of its screen layout is found here.

Contact support or your implementation consultant to begin your journey to having PocketShop in your Sales toolkit.

Sadly, not at the moment. Currently, Aphix PocketShop supports business-to-business (B2B) operation but not business-to-consumer (B2C). 

1. Create a developer account on Android Play Store

   • create a Google Play developer account

   • accept the developer agreement

   • pay the registration fee

   • complete your account details

2. Contact us once you have completed Step 1. We upload Aphix PocketShop to the Android Play Store. Typically we upload it as an early invite-only release so you can review it before it is published to the public store.

3. We publish Aphix PocketShop to the Android Play Store once you have reviewed and accepted it.

Once it is in the public Android Play Store or Apple Store, your customers can download it as they would any mobile application.

1. Enroll in the Apple Developer Program Store and pay the registration fee.

2. Contact us once you have completed Step 1. We upload Aphix PocketShop to the Apple store. Typically we upload it to TestFlight so you can review it before it is published to the public store.

3. We publish Aphix PocketShop to the Apple Store once you have reviewed and accepted it.

Once it is in the public Android Play Store or Apple Store, your customers can download it as they would any mobile application.

Aphix PocketShop can be deployed in approximately 4-6 weeks provided that:

• you already have Aphix Digital Platform and WebShop installed

• you have ordered a standard version of the Aphix PocketShop app