From now on Madrid has one more market, market47.com, which is added to the 46 municipal markets. This is a virtual market sponsored by the Madrid City Council, through the General Directorate of Commerce and Entrepreneurship, the result of public-private collaboration with Hermeneus World, company specialized in online commerce platforms. Mercado47.com was created to provide businesses, SMEs and the self-employed in the city of Madrid with affordable tools to promote and sell their products and services through a single common online space, in a simple, professional way, which will contribute to increasing their competitiveness.
On Wednesday, March 9, the General Director of Commerce and Entrepreneurship presented the platform first to the representatives of the 46 Municipal Markets of Madrid and different associations in the food commercial sector. This service has been offered in the first instance to merchants from the markets that make up the network of Municipal Markets of Madrid so that they can join the initiative. However, the platform is available from the first moment to all businesses, small and medium-sized companies or self-employed workers in the capital, regardless of the sector in which they carry out their activity. Since yesterday, any business in Madrid can create its own website and complete online store, to add its product and service offering to that of the rest of Madrid's businesses in a single marketplace.
With market47.com, The complete offer of Madrid commerce will be available in a single common space where consumers will be able to purchase their products through a direct, ethical sales system without intermediation. This characteristic, unique and differential on the Internet, through which the seller charges the full amount of his orders (similar to what occurs in any stall in a municipal market), allows the business to keep its margins intact while opening up to new consumers, both those local buyers accustomed to making their purchases online or during non-business hours, as well as nationals from anywhere in Spain who from now on will be able to make purchases online from stores in Madrid.
The businesses attached to market47.com They will have everything they need to promote and sell on the Internet, without having to hire a programmer due to the ease of use of the platform. They also have an innovative logistics configuration system, adaptable to the particularities of each business, and the technological advances essential in an ecommerce platform: design adapted to mobile devices, positioning in search engines, multiple payment system (from credit card by Secure POS or PayPal, up to cash payment), communication with buyers, order management, etc.
They will also have Nimble Payments from BBVA, which will allow them to have their own secure payment gateway (virtual POS) with the latest technologies in payment systems, and the guarantee of the best service and maximum security in transactions.
The pioneers to join market47.comwill enjoy a special introductory price (121 euros per year, VAT included) limited to 100 first, accessing 100% of the platform services.
With mercado47.com, the tradition that municipal markets represent is added to new technologies, opening up to the future, but without losing its distinctive features: proximity, personalized treatment, quality and variety in the offer.
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