AIRTAG | Mobile Shopping

AIRTAG enables Magento E-Commerce sites to mobilize in native mobile wallet apps

Violet — 2013-05-07T12:53:55Z

New AIRSHOP feature enables retailers using Magento to deliver mobile wallet apps complete with mobile-to-store features and payment schemes

NEW YORK, May 7 2013- AIRTAG, the leading provider of Mobile Shopping Solutions, announces today that the AIRSHOP advanced ordering & payment solution has been fully integrated with Magento; the eBay owned open source e-commerce platform used by more than 150,000 retailers.

This integration enables retailers currently using Magento for their e-commerce sites to easily transition to mobile commerce and offer consumers a multi-channel experience that includes mobile, web, and tablet applications. Forrester Research predicts that by 2017, half of all mobile internet users will be mobile retail buyers, meaning that retailers must start to develop a mobilized and multi-channel strategy.

AIRSHOP offers retailers using Magento, a native app, available on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry, with a feature rich platform including:

A full retailer wallet for advanced ordering and payments with both in-store and delivery pick-up options and multiple payment scheme support, including PayPal, 1 Click, and Credit Card.
Integrated targeted marketing features such as mobile loyalty, geolocated couponing, geofencing, push notifications, location based marketing and product recommendations.
Cloud based reporting to track consumer data and to further digital strategy development

“Magento, is the most widely used e-commerce platform,” said Jérémie Leroyer CEO & Co-founder of AIRTAG. “For all retailers starting to think about how they are going to go mobile, we have created a solution that significantly eases the transition to digital commerce, without sacrificing the user experience.”
AIRSHOP significantly improves the ordering experience, as exemplified in French markets through its success with fast food and grocery retailers like the G20 grocery store chain. The “G20 Minute” app saw great success, giving shoppers an interactive mobile shopping experience in-store while expediting ordering, payment and checkout time.

AIRSHOP aims to make ordering on any connected device easier than ever, and is quickly becoming a key player in the mobile wallet eco-system, having already seen adoption by retailers including; KFC, McDonald’s, McCafé, Carrefour City and G20.

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KFC partners with AIRTAG to launch first ever mobile ordering and payment app in the U.K.

Violet — 2013-04-03T12:09:39Z

KFC streamlines the customer journey with Airshop interactive mobile ordering platform

New York & Paris, 3 APRIL 2013- AIRTAG, the leading provider of Mobile Shopping Solutions, today announces a partnership with KFC UK & Ireland to launch the chain’s first ever mobile and web app for ordering and payments called “KFC Fast Track.” KFC is using AIRTAG’s Airshop Solution, which is an all in one package platform that enables proximity retailers to launch self-branded interactive mobile and web apps for advanced ordering and payments. Starting immediately, KFC will be piloting Airshop in ten restaurants across the UK which is a center for international trial and rollout of technology based solutions. The app is available for iPhone users and the web app is soon to be available for all connected devices.

The KFC Fast Track app comes equipped with advanced features for a seamless ordering experience; geolocation to easily locate the nearest KFC, mobile & web ordering and payment capabilities, a mobile check-in feature for in-store order recall and a customer account so users can store ordering history, favorite products and payment details for one click payments.

“Our customers lead increasingly busy lives and KFC Fast Track is focused on helping them order, pay for and collect their food faster than ever before, delivering a great experience throughout,” said Paul Borrett, IT Director of KFC UK & Ireland. “We look forward to working closely with AIRTAG and adding many more innovative features to KFC Fast Track in the coming months.”

The Quick and Simplified Customer Journey Snapshot:

Download the iPhone app in the app store
Select the closest or preferred ordering location from a geolocated list of KFCs with the service
Compile an order by selecting desired products and pay by credit card
After the order is paid for, check your device for a QR code and order confirmation number for order pick up at KFC.

KFC Fast Track users can pick up their order any time on the day an order is placed. Upon arrival at the selected ordering location, the user will do a mobile check-in to let KFC staff know they are present in the store. After doing the mobile check in, the user gets to skip the line and proceed directly to a unique checkout dedicated specifically to KFC Fast Track users. In the near future, KFC Fast Track will include geofencing so users can do the mobile check-in before even arriving at the restaurant.

“To launch a mobile ordering and payment app for Yum! Restaurants International is a real milestone for AIRTAG. KFC Fast Track will renew the ordering experience in a way that meets new consumer demands for efficiency onset by the increasing importance of multi-channel commerce shopping,” said Jérémie Leroyer CEO and Co-Founder of AIRTAG. “We are very pleased to work with KFC in carving out a mobile presence that brings real value to end users and we are very excited for the program’s roll out.”

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About AIRTAG
The leader in mobile shopping ecosystem innovations, AIRTAG provides mobile, NFC and in-store solutions that continue to improve the consumer buying experience. The company is the platform of choice for globally recognized MNO’s, financial institutions and retailers, across Europe, North America, The Middle East and The UK. AIRTAG’s quickly growing partner base is comprised of more than 35 retailers including; McDonald’s, McCafé, KFC, Carrefour, Casino, G20, Dior, L’Oreal and Reebok, and 10 MNO’s and financial institutions including; MasterCard, Orange, SFR, Société Générale, Crédit Mutuel, Bouygues, and NRJ Mobile. For more information about AIRTAG and its patented technologies, visit www.airtag.com

About Yum
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the world’s largest restaurant company in terms of system units with more than 39,000 KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants in more than 125 countries and 1.4 million associates. Yum! is ranked #213 on the FORTUNE 500 list, with revenues of more than $13 billion in 2012. The Company’s restaurant brands - KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell - are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories. Outside the United States, the Yum! Brands system opened approximately four new restaurants each day of the year, making it a leader in international retail development. The Company has consistently been recognized for its reward and recognition culture, diversity leadership, community giving and consistent shareholder returns.

About KFC UK
KFC, the world's largest chain of chicken-based quick service restaurants, grew from the chicken business set up by Colonel Harland D Sanders in the 1950s. The Colonel had found a way to combine 11 herbs and spices with flour to create a unique taste, and to this day the secret recipe is only known to a handful of people. It is locked away in a vault in Louisville, Kentucky.

KFC came to Britain in 1965, with the first store opening in Preston, Lancashire, and there are now 850 stores across the UK, with over 24,000 employees.
KFC has made considerable nutritional improvements in the last few years, cutting salt by as much as 50% and switching cooking oils to cut saturated fat levels in Original Recipe Chicken by up to 25%. KFC has also expanded its range to include lighter options, such as the Rancher, KFC’s first non-fried product.
In 2012, KFC was voted Britain’s Top Employer, and the company has been named as a Great Place to Work for the last three years. The company places a big importance on developing people, and became the first restaurant company in the UK to launch an honours degree – a BA (Hons) Business Management course in conjunction with De Montfort University, Leicester. KFC also works with City & Guilds to provide Level 2 and Level 3 Apprenticeships to team members and team leaders.
KFC is also committed to benefiting the community, and uses its expertise at developing young people to work with some of the most disadvantaged young adults in the UK through a work experience partnership with Barnardo’s. The company also works to help the global community, and has raised over £4m for the United Nations World Food Programme in the last six years.
KFC UK, Inc is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM), which also owns the Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants. For further information, please visit www.kfc.co.uk.

AIRTAG launches AIRPASS multi-platform white label mobile wallet

Violet — 2013-03-01T10:18:34Z

A comprehensive mobile wallet that doesn’t compromise the user experience

NEW YORK & PARIS, FEB. 21, 2013- AIRTAG; the leading provider of Mobile Shopping Solutions, today announces the launch of AIRPASS, a fully customizable white label mobile wallet for retailers, banks and mobile network operators, enabling each provider to distribute their own self-branded virtual wallet with NFC payment capabilities. Ready for distribution on 22+ Smartphones including Android, Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10, AIRPASS enables a maximal number of end users to benefit from each brand’s mobile wallet offering.

Unique to AIRPASS, separating it from mobile wallets currently available on the market is; native design for each smartphone platform to deliver a state of the art user experience and the ability for use as an Open Wallet; cards aggregator, or Widget Wallet; widgets aggregator, giving providers more choice of utility based on business needs.

“We have been listening closely to the current market needs in the Mobile Shopping eco-system as the traditional shopping experience continues to revolutionize. There are going to be not one; but many mobile wallets that succeed if they can deliver value added services to end users. Each brand needs to start building their own identity in the wallet experience, not to get a piece of the payment pie, but to retain and build loyal customers.” (Jérémie Leroyer, CEO & Co-founder of AIRTAG)

A product of AIRTAG’s six years of extensive experience with 35+ retailers, totaling 1500 live in-store solutions reaching more than three million individual users, AIRPASS includes the ability to easily tack on mobile commerce features; loyalty cards, pre-paid cards, couponing and fast/advanced ordering and payment systems, to bring more value to the wallet experience for end users. To help brands who are issuing AIRPASS better understand how customers are behaving in their apps to improve the user experience, AIRPASS includes a tracking tool and mobile analytics so that services offerings can be extended and modified. AIRPASS mobile wallet features include;

• Native Design: Optimized for 22+ Smartphones including Android, WP8 and BB10, each of which have been written in native language to leverage platform specific features
• Compatibility with all of the major payment schemes available on the market, closed loop and opened loop gift cards, cards present, loyalty cards, transportation passes, tickets and coupons
• Seamless integration with AIRTAG’s mobile commerce solution, AIRSHOP, already deployed for McDonald’s, McCafé and Carrefour City
• Security protection by pincode, offline pin management, remote wallet locking

AIRPASS has been the Mobile Wallet of choice for partners including NRJ Mobile, Crédit Mutuel and CIC. In the coming year, AIRTAG will release partnerships with two major MNO’s, two additional banks and one tier one retailer.
AIRTAG has seen substantial mobile wallet growth and is excited to announce more retailer, bank and MNO AIRPASS partnerships in the coming year.
Come and see AIRPASS live at the 2013 Mobile World Congress at the AIRTAG booth 7A57.

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eServGlobal and AIRTAG collaborate to deliver an NFC mobile transit app in the Middle East

Audrey — 2013-02-26T14:05:36Z

Paris, 26 February 2013- eServGlobal announced a partnership with AIRTAG, a leading provider of mobile shopping eco-system innovations and secure applications, to supply an NFC mobile transit app for a leading mobile network operator in the Middle East.

eServGlobal and AIRTAG will work together on provisioning a mobile application for contactless ticketing for a public transport system so that travellers carrying an NFC enabled phone can use their phone as a transportation pass, access transit account balances in ‘real-time’ and view their recharge history.

The first phase of this project will focus on provisioning the NFC transport app with an architectural framework for an easy upgrade to a full mobile wallet solution that enables the recharge of a transit pass via a mobile money account, loyalty schemes and couponing. A full mobile wallet would also enable the ability to complete in-store NFC payments, person-to-person money transfers and bill payments.

The broad potential of mobile NFC has been well recognized by key industry players who have already launched pilot programs around the world, with the first commercial operations now live. There are 22+ NFC enabled major smartphones to date, proving how quickly the NFC ecosystem and supporting infrastructure will continue to expand. Juniper Research predicts that NFC retail transactions values are expected to reach US$110bn in 2017.

“We are delighted to take part in this partnership which is yet another example of the traction we are seeing globally in the NFC and mobile payment market,” Jeremie Leroyer, CEO, AIRTAG. “AIRTAG has consistently aimed at bringing a truly relevant and valuable NFC and mobile commerce experience to end users and our partnership with eServGlobal is aligned well to meet both current and future mobile eco-system needs.”

“As the payment and mobile ecosystems evolve, an opportunity exists for mobile operators to bring benefits not just in terms of accessibility but in building convergence around the entire ecosystem, including ticketing, loyalty programs, voucher redemption or targeted promotions based on customer data, usage and geolocation,” said Katia Hilal, Vice President Marketing & Alliances, eServGlobal, “eServGlobal will play a leading role in developing these solutions, and is proud to work with industry innovators like AIRTAG.”

AIRTAG has established their reputation as a leader in the mobile shopping and NFC eco-system with 50+ partnerships including more than 1500 live in-store deployments reaching more than three million individual uses across Europe, the UK, the US and the Middle East. The leader in mobile shopping ecosystem innovations, NFC and in-store solutions that continue to improve the consumer buying experience, AIRTAG solutions have been implemented by global brands including; MasterCard, McDonald’s, McCafé and Carrefour City.

eServGlobal is currently supplying mobile money services to operators and service providers worldwide as well as supporting a substantial installed base of recharge customers. The PayMobile platform is currently deployed in more than 25 customers and used every day by more than 250 million prepaid subscribers worldwide.

Visit AIRTAG @The Mobile World Congress 2013 Booth #7A57

Violet — 2013-01-28T10:04:16Z

This year’s Mobile World Congress is just around the corner and AIRTAG would like to see you there. Come by the AIRTAG Booth #75A7 during the Mobile World Congress, taking place in Barcelona, Spain January 25th-28th at the Fira Gran Via. This year we will be demo’ing our newest and latest additions to our Mobile Shopping Solutions:

AIRSHOP Order for McDonald’s, with the GoMcDo; advanced ordering and payment solution. Order and pay ahead for your favorite McDonald’s products, and NFC check-in on the “Easy Check In” Kiosk to instantly recall your order.

McCafé iPad Ordering service that enables McCaé barristas and servers to take orders directly at the table, to make in-store service even faster and more convenient for customers

AIRSHOP Loyalty: The most innovative Loyalty Solution that processes Mobile Loyalty cards directly at the POS giving shoppers access to ‘real-time’ rewards balance updates and the ability to choose when and where to burn their rewards.

AIRPASSS Mobile Wallet solution: Try out firsthand this comprehensive & customizable white label mobile wallet solution that easily enables the tacking on of value added mobile commerce features like loyalty and fast ordering.

In addition to our featured demos you can come by the AIRTAG booth to learn more about AIRTAG solutions which have been implemented for brands like McDonald’s, McCafé, Reebok, MasterCard and large European grocery chains like Carrefour, G20 and Casino.

Learn more about the Mobile World Congress here.