{"id":6212,"date":"2020-10-15T18:28:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T18:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercuryorder.wpengine.com\/ie-news\/mercury-order-rd-project-supported-by-eu-and-invest-ni\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T18:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T18:31:10","slug":"mercury-order-rd-project-supported-by-eu-and-invest-ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mercuryorder.com\/ie\/news-ie\/mercury-order-rd-project-supported-by-eu-and-invest-ni\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Order R&amp;D project supported by EU and Invest NI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" alt=\"Mercury Order R&amp;D project supported by EU and Invest NI\" title=\"eu-200\" src=\"https:\/\/mercuryorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eu-200.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-6182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mercuryorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eu-200-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/mercuryorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eu-200-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/mercuryorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eu-200.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:15px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Mercury Order is being further developed thanks to financial support from the European Union\u2019s Research &amp; Development Fund and Invest Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed one year R&amp;D project is designed to facilitate Grofuse in continuing to develop Mercury Order as a leading online ordering platform for smaller, local, independent retailers \u2013 to help make shopping local digital.<\/p>\n<p>With this vote of confidence from the EU and Invest NI, the Mercury Order team is undertaking extensive market research fuel our growth plans by further developing our system to make e-commerce simple and affordable for smaller businesses wishing to sell online.<\/p>\n<p>The R&amp;D process includes extensive market research to allow us to identify what the market wants and needs to improve the experience in what is a transformed retail landscape following the Covid-19 pandemic. This will help identify the shortfalls of existing systems and allow us to refine the product to maximise sign-ups and retention in our targeted niches. Research involves A-B Testing, customer experience modelling and scoping exercises.<\/p>\n<p>Mercury Order is a platform that makes online ordering fast and easy for the customers of both retailers (B2C) and wholesalers (B2B). The platform provides a perfect online trading solution for the traditional local stores such as butchers, boutique bakeries, farmers\u2019 markets, delis (retailers which have not digitalised due to implementation costs, the complexity of existing systems on the market) and more. As demand for online retail surged amid the coronavirus chaos, Mercury Order for retail emerged with the aim of allowing smaller retailers to cost-effectively level the playing field with their bigger competitors who had already established strong footholds in e-commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Increased demand for online selling facilities for dark kitchens\/stores\/warehouses has also surged and Mercury Order will provide the simplest solution on the market for this transformed retail landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The platform will also provide a traditional retail experience for customers from those non-traditional retailers\/wholesalers which are trading without dedicated physical stores.<\/p>\n<p>This project is designed to help make shop local digital. This online ordering system has shop local at its heart, allowing local retailers to compete with big multiples \u2013 many of whose online services were found very much wanting during the ongoing pandemic (with regular shoppers unable to secure collection or delivery slots). This product provides a very cost-effective solution for retailers wishing to scale online, improve stock management and promote social responsibility to customers and staff regarding social distancing in tough times. It will increase capacity for local people to spend their money locally whether shopping online with their local butcher, baker or candlestick maker. This increased local spend in local stores is very important to sustaining town and village economies around NI and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-ie"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mercury Order R&amp;D project supported by EU and Invest NI - Mercury Order<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mercury Order is being further developed thanks to financial support from the European Union\u2019s Research &amp; Development Fund and Invest Northern Ireland.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mercuryorder.com\/news\/mercury-order-rd-project-supported-by-eu-and-invest-ni\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mercury Order R&amp;D project supported by EU and Invest NI - 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