PORTLAND, Maine – Two new programs developed by a Portland company promise to improve trade for thousands of small businesses in Maine and across the world by giving users the ability to charge credit cards and to create a mobile store right on their smart phones.
App Publishing, LLC, located in the Old Port, has created the Mobile Store Maker and the Mobile Invoicer, which allow businesses to show and sell their products on a smart phone using a secure credit-card processing program.
With more than 150,000 small businesses in Maine alone, and e-commerce totaling over $100 billion annually in the United States, the two applications could provide a boost to store owners at all levels. The subscription-based applications will be particularly useful for “mom-and-pop” businesses, such as artists and craftsmen, farmers, musicians, and others who travel to sell their wares.
“Businesses will be able to literally carry their store in their pocket, and to make a sale virtually anywhere there’s a buyer,” Bill Broadbent, App Publishing’s co-founder, said of the programs.
Mobile Store Maker allows people – whether they’re selling items at a garage sale or expanding the reach of a brick-and-mortar operation – to load product images and information onto a smart phone. Buyers can then purchase the items using a credit/debit card, PayPal, or Google Checkout. Mobile Invoicer allows someone to create an invoice right on their smart phone, and then hand the device to a customer for immediate payment, or send an invoice by email or text.
“Millions of customers access the Internet from their smart phone,” said fellow co-founder Link Stevens. “Our Mobile Store Maker will help these companies quickly and easily adapt to this shift in online customer shopping patterns.”
For more information, please visit www.apppublishing.com. To schedule a product demonstration or interview, please contact:
Bill Broadbent
Local: (207) 841.5174
bill@apppublishing.com
