![]() One last area we started exploring to get a handle on commerce was taking a quick look at what receipt and transaction data APIs were available with providers like the Information Machine API, as well as receipt scanning services like Expensify, Taggun, and Itemize. Providing another lens to look through while considering who is out in the world shopping, eating, and being good consumers. While also looking real quick at the potential of understanding real-world activity with publicly available surveillance cameras with Earthcam, Webcams.Travel, and TrafficVision. Then we wanted to begin thinking out of the box and start looking at how retail stores are keeping track of the foot traffic at their stores with providers like Placer, Blix, Dor, TraxSales, and Iris. Which is just the tip of the retail analytics API realm, helping retails optimize their business, but also providing wider opportunities for understanding the world of retail commerce, and what is happening on the ground. Which then led us to a whole stack of interesting retail and commerce analytics providers like ShopperTrak, RetailNext, Countbox, Kinexon, StackLine, and even Nielsen provides a wealth of data on brands. Then Alkemics focusing on retail collaboration, Yodlee aggregating sales data, and Intelligence Node, and Repsly helping retails stores make sense of their business and optimize everything through better analytics. Then we find ourselves looking through a suite of different data providers like Ant, helping with retail inventory, and Uber Media also focusing on mobile, location, and retail data. Putting the geo-fencing into the retail landscape, showing us how to track users, and understand what they are doing. As well as some other lesser providers who offer interesting location-based retail proximity services like Near, Factual, and Proxim.io. Leading us to the obvious players Yelp knowledge, and Foursquare. ![]() Next, we found ourselves thinking about how people find retail stores, places to eat, and other destinations. Then moving into the emerging self-service POS and commerce space, with the newer provider Tray, who points to another direction that the world of self-service commerce is headed. Then it was interesting to see what Moltin does with their virtual commerce solutions which extend to signage, display, and commerce and the augmented reality provider Aisle411. Beginning with the cash to digital commerce provider Incomm, who connects the under-banked at the POS. We would be negligent if we didn’t mention Quickbooks, as a player in this, with their POS system, but also because of their dominance in the accounting space, and being able to connect the dots regarding commerce in other ways.īeyond the ordinary, we began looking at the more unusual and unique. These providers are wiring up the smaller retailers out there, with some of them providing interesting insights via their partner programs, and other opportunities available within their ecosystems.īeyond these straightforward POS providers, there are some other leading candidates like Shopify, and BigCommerce who span the virtual commerce, as well as the retail POS world, but also connect users with leading marketplaces, auction sites, and social commerce opportunities–reflecting the next generation in commerce. Most notably Square, but then also Vend, Bind POS, Reply, Lightspeed, and Springboard. There really isn’t much value in these ecosystems when it comes to trying to understand the landscape, as the retailers are just looking to provide access to their product catalogs, and really don’t emit many other signals that would help someone trying to understand the landscape.Īfter the big box retailers, there is a wealth of point of sale POS system out there who deliver services to retailers of all shapes and sizes. ![]() When looking for retail APIs the first thing many think of are the big retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, and Walgreens, who all have their own API programs. While there is no single place to get a complete view of the landscape, there are a dizzying amount of services that allow the right person to paint a pretty compelling picture, with a variety of colors being applied. We recently took a dive into the world of retail APIs to better understand the landscape, and we found ourselves falling down a rabbit hole of opportunities when it came to understanding what is happening across the retail landscape. ![]()
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