The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Sierra Interactive pricing: From $524.95/month For newbies, it wants to be your ride-or-die wingman as you get your feet wet, like the Scottie Pippen of real estate software.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Rise of the Rest-backed startup centralizes and consolidates the international shipping process by integrating directly into retailers’ shopping carts and, from there, quotes the best shipping rates, guarantees duties and taxes, provides end-to-end tracking, and manages compliance challenges. Stay tuned.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Cart sizes grew as the variability and selection offering got better over time--and now most of their customers love it so much, they're on subscription. They got more data about what customers liked and didn't like very quickly, enabling them to change recipes and offerings, and expand to categories like breakfast, snacks, and sweets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Some believe that this is a costly approach, both in terms of initial installation and maintenance, arguing that other approaches, such as systems based on sensors that sit on shopping carts themselves, is the better approach. “Tech-enabled cost savings accumulate over time and boost grocery retailers’ margins,” he said.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

We switched to an a-la-carte service menu to help alleviate those issues. First, we restructured our pricing list based on the demographics in our surrounding area. We were charging prices that were way too low and giving package deals. These two things by themselves made a significant impact on our profit.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 26, 2024

JENAE GOODIN – Founder of BAB About Jenae’s Company, BAB BAB is a universal shopping cart revolutionizing the way we shop online. I had 20 browser tabs open, a few items in each store’s shopping cart, and I kept tabbing back and forth thinking “I wish I could put all these items in a Big Ass Bag.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This case study , for example, shows business owners can recover up to 58 percent of sales from abandoned shopping carts when they use automated methods. Worried your business results might take a hit if you don’t do everything manually? Don’t stress; the data proves the opposite. Sounds like a win-win, right?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Many community leaders have never done transactions online before — we’ve even had to introduce what a shopping cart is — so the product is very intuitive.”. “We built an app to make community leaders successful, to know their earnings, manage their customers and know who has and hasn’t ordered,” she added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Notable startups named by our respondents include Channable, Pepscope, Goin’ Connect, Fundsup, Tover, Faqta, Sensorfact, SODAQ, Picnic, Neurolytics, De Clique, Solease, BikeFlip, Packaly, DiManEx, Trunkrs, DialogueTrainer, EatMyRide, CART-Tech, Prolira, among many, many others. Digital, gaming, e-health, edtech, sustainability.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

What makes SpotOn so appealing to its customers, Hyman said, is the fact that it offers an integrated platform so that businesses that use it can save “thousands of dollars” in payments and software fees to multiple, “à la carte” vendors. But it also can integrate with other platforms if needed.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Rather than analyzing a customer’s shipping address and shopping cart, Sardine looks at device intelligence and behavioral biometric data that helps identify whether an individual engaging in a transaction is really who they say they are, he continued.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

These courses are always sold a-la-carte, not on a monthly subscription. Joining the Domestika community is free of charge, and users pay for courses, and those fees account for virtually all of Domestika’s revenues. Note: some courses are free, too, tasters to get people interested in buying courses.)

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Interchange fees can be costly for e-commerce retailers in more than one way — costly payment methods like credit cards lead to customers making fewer transactions and abandoning shopping carts. And Amazon’s recent decision to stop accepting Visa cards on its U.K. site is evidence of just how much those costs can matter, writes Ryan Lawler.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For consumer-facing businesses, making sure they have the latest adtech, marketing tech and tools to improve discovery and conversion is a must.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Pricing for the service starts at $300 and varies depending on the content, number of users and whether the company is a subscriber or using Teamraderie à la carte.).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

He built mind controlled skateboards, smart shopping carts and taser drones. Chaotic Moon made Whurley rich. He made more money at that company than any of his other ventures, he said. It was also a lot of fun.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This creates unique customer insights for brands on what people will be likely to buy, but it also makes for easy shopping for consumers without the fuss of multiple click additions to carts and lists. They work with Mars, General Mills and other CPG brands. Apply now to AdAdapted. Refraction AI.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 1, 2022

A few of my historical favorites are Carl Magee and his parking meter; Clinton Riggs and the yield sign, and Sylvan Goldman and his grocery cart. Favorite Topics. Oklahoma’s Wiley Post invented the flight suit. The Malzahn family, of Ditch Witch fame, gave the world a whole new way to install underground utilities safely and efficiently.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

He’s the co-founder of Shopic , a startup that sells clip-on touchscreen hardware for shopping carts that identify items to display promotions while acting as a self-service checkout window. Hence, we developed Shopic’s unique smart cart solution.” Investors see potential. Image Credits: Shopic.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 29, 2021

A ByondXR enables global brands to build 3-D online stores, producing a ~220% increase in subscriptions, ~400% increase in engagement time, and up to 60% increase in shopping-cart conversion. In its first year after launching the platform, ByondXR landed Target, Lancôme, and P&G as customers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Duda announced Wednesday that it acquired Canada-based Snipcart , a startup that enables businesses to add a shopping cart to their websites. The acquisition is Palo Alto-based Duda’s first deal, and follows the website development platform’s $50 million Series D round in June that brings its total funding to $100 million to date.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

It kind of reminds me of an analogy in my head of cars vs. shopping carts. In shopping carts we sometimes get cut off, we’re often in line, we sit in confined spaces and we’re somewhere doing something we probably prefer not to be doing. We’re in each other’s world and we see that they are human.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Recover abandoned carts. Everybody knows the old-fashioned way to deal with abandoned carts — sending an email. The abandoned cart chatbots have one mission – don’t let customers walk away without buying! Josh Rohrscheib, BRE Law. Measuring this chatbot implementation is not complicated. Maryia Fokina, Tidio.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

He started Ample Hills Creamery four years ago with his wife, Jackie Cuscuna, after turning a home ice cream making hobby into a reality with a cart at Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park. Brian Smith was a science fiction movie screenwriter, penning low budget alien movies starring the likes of Lou Diamond Phillips.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

. “For example, when a customer is building their weekly grocery cart using their voice, they might say, ‘add milk to my cart.’ ’ The right action and the response to the customer depends on various factors, including if the customer has bought milk in the past, what their preferred type of milk is (e.g.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

BoB Profit Partners LLC (Craig Moyer, Raj Trivedi) , located in York County, developed loss prevention technology that uses a sensor to detect when items are left behind in the shopping cart.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The company’s primary offering is an autonomous cart, which can be used to move crops from the field. S2G Ventures and Toyota Ventures led the round, which also featured participation from F-Prime and ADM Capital, who joined existing investors Radicle Growth and ffVC.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 1, 2018

By creating a strong company culture, and getting all employees to buy in to that culture, everyone is committed to pulling the cart in the same direction and working hard to meet the company goals. But what happens when the company culture is too strong?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Facebook adds carts to WhatsApp to make shopping easier. Now it plans to invest in its technology stack and expand its platform to 100 cities and towns in five states of India in the next year. It did not disclose how many customers it serves today, but said it is working to reach 10 million customers and clock $339 million in annual GMV.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

OCTOBER 15, 2021

BoB Profit Partners LLC (Craig Moyer, Raj Trivedi) , located in York County, developed loss prevention technology that uses a sensor to detect when items are left behind in the shopping cart. IL Fuels LLC (Paul Painter, Aron Lupinsky), located in Centre County, developed technology to recycle water from mining operations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

At its core, Take App serves as an easy way for those with little technical know-how to set up a simple website to facilitate online orders, replete with a shopping cart, payments, and a direct connection to WhatsApp for managing and tracking the final order. Take App: WhatsApp ordering.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

You can buy the pieces à la carte (the Holy Sheet is $35, the pie pans are $45 and the bread pans are $65 for a pair) or purchase the whole set for $245. Tishgart added that the company has had a “really, really busy year” with lockdowns and social distancing. “People are cooking more than ever,” she said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Then they can access the wholesale pricing, which includes more than 5,000 SKUs from over 500 brands, add items to the cart and complete the transaction. Users register with the company by providing some details, and a few more financial ones if they want to apply for credit.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 27, 2023

Today we have Raz Golan, CEO and Co-Founder of Shopic, which is “Intelligent Retail with the World’s Smartest Shopping Cart”. They use innovative AI computer vision to tell what a customer puts in their cart without there ever being a need to scan and much more. They’ve raised over $50m and are used in supermarkets across the world.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Fundraising is often presented as the most important step on a founder’s journey, but that is placing the cart before the horse. Until a company builds a growing base of customers who are deeply engaged with its products, asking investors for money is a largely egotistical exercise.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Last year, it acquired Spread , an online marketplace that connects restaurants with diners, and fulfilled its goal from the Series A to create a digital food hall, with C3, that enables restaurant groups to create an experience where guests can order from multiple brands in one cart.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Myers considered it “like what Shopify did with the shopping cart, we are doing for community engagement.”. Instead, Countable is taking a cue from the positives of social media to build technology that nurtures more authentic communication and facilitates business and social outcomes. How engaged are your employees?

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