Retail & Ecommerce

Boost Engagement and Sales in Your Retail & E-commerce Mobile Apps

Enhance customer experiences and streamline ecommerce app development with a full-lifecycle realtime platform

Your challenge

The online shopping industry is highly competitive, and success depends on building a seamless shopping experience and an engaging customer community.

Developers must create dynamic, real-time interactions to captivate and keep shoppers returning. Enhancing the user experience with must-have features like live support, personalized promotions, and in-the-moment notifications can drive customer satisfaction and loyalty. Data security and privacy are also essential to maintaining trust and achieving long-term success in the shopping app market.



When developers are looking to add real-time features to their builds, here are some of the common questions they ask:


What solutions are available for ensuring low-latency communication between customers and support?

What solutions are available for ensuring low-latency communication between customers and support?

The PubNub platform delivers messages in under 100ms, providing precise synchronization for seamless customer support interactions without lag. Whether it’s via chatbot or live agent, this low-latency communication enhances the overall shopping experience by keeping customers engaged and satisfied.

How can we handle a sudden spike in shoppers during sales or promotions?

How can we handle a sudden spike in shoppers during sales or promotions?

What best practices are for managing and synchronizing user states across different devices?

What best practices are for managing and synchronizing user states across different devices?

What measures can be taken to ensure the security and privacy of customer data?

What measures can be taken to ensure the security and privacy of customer data?

What options are available for adding analytics to our app?

What options are available for adding analytics to our app?

Partner with PubNub

Enhance customer experiences & streamline ecommerce app development with a full-lifecycle realtime platform

Presence Detection

Presence Detection

Know who is online and offline, send alerts to re-engage customers, and highlight real-time marketing strategies.

Real-time Inventory Updates

Real-time Inventory Updates

Stream live updates and product availability to real-time dashboards for inventory management.

Increase Shopper Engagement

Increase Shopper Engagement

Embed in-app chat for customer support, moderate content, and analyze interactions for insights and trends into user engagement.

Affect Purchase Behavior

Affect Purchase Behavior

Observe, affect, and monetize user behavior and see its impact on sales and purchase decisions in real time.

Build Customer Loyalty

Build Customer Loyalty

Enhance customer loyalty and build a sense of community through chat and integration with social media platforms.

Seamless Shopping Experience

Seamless Shopping Experience

Provide a seamless user experience with ultra-low latency, high reliability, and 99.999% uptime, regardless of what device they're using.

Demo

Facilitating Engaging Realtime Interactions

Bring social interaction to communities and shared interest groups with chat features for fans, family, students, or communities. This demo is a fully featured implementation written with the PubNub Chat SDK in Typescript showing both group chats and 1:1 conversations.

Live events Demo Screen
FEATURES

Why PubNub?

Social and lifestyle app developers partner with PubNub when they want to build real-time features that increase engagement and retention

Improve Customer Satisfaction

Improve Customer Satisfaction

Real-time chat and messaging for instant customer support.

Multi-platform Support

Multi-platform Support

Multi-platform support for a consistent shopper experience across all devices.

Location-Based Promotions

Location-Based Promotions

Geolocation and geofencing for personalized location-based promotions.

Live Sales Events

Live Sales Events

Event broadcasting for live sales events and special promotions.

Increase Customer Loyalty

Increase Customer Loyalty

Boost customer engagement with gamification and loyalty programs.

Instant Order Updates

Instant Order Updates

Push notifications for timely updates on orders and promotions.

Real-time Inventory

Real-time Inventory

Live updates for accurate inventory, product recommendations, and availability for your online store.

Seamless Payments

Seamless Payments

Integration with various payment gateways for seamless transactions during the checkout process.

What ecommerce use cases can we help you with?