Boxpark offers virtual market place

Boxpark Shoreditch, the world’s first pop-up mall, has teamed up with Magento and PayPal, both eBay companies

to offer omnichannel commerce experience for its retailers and consumers.

The Boxpark Market Place features a fully integrated iPad POS system, which allows retailers to engage customers across multiple touch points, via a Magento-powered storefront that will increase Boxpark’s inventory to online and mobile audiences. In addition, Boxpark will also offer PayPal to power its cashless transactions both online and offline for its customers.

“Omnichannel solutions have been rolled out on high street, but until now small independent retailers have been unable to offer costly omnichannel solutions,” said Roger Wade, CEO of Boxpark. “Boxpark Marketplace allows small independents to have a sophisticated omnichannel solution with little or no set up costs. They just need an iPad or tablet and they are up and running.”

Narik Patel, director of mobile merchant services PayPal UK, added: “PayPal and Boxpark are levelling the playing field for independent retailers, giving them the chance to compete and win. We’re enabling seamless, secure payments for Boxpark retailers across all their sales channels – web, mobile and in-store.”