Sessions

Last year, service providers and small-to-medium businesses sent over 3.7 billion invoices to each other. 65% of those payments were still made with old-fashioned fax or paper checks. PayPal, with its secure, global payments platform, is now offering developers access to its newest invoicing APIs to move away from paper and move toward instant payments. We’ll discuss how these new start-to-finish services can be integrated in numerous innovative ways with existing applications such as time-tracking, project management, and customer support on both mobile and web platforms.

The surge in smartphone adoption and adjacent technologies is changing the way people use money, and that blurs the line between online and offline commerce. This session will frame some of the emerging technologies in mobile payment—NFC, QR codes, augmented reality—and how they are opening up new shopping experiences.

An explanation of what you need to use eBay’s APIs and maximize commerce on the mothership itself. With only a working knowledge of web services but a bit of enthusiasm, an eBay novice can get to the intermediate level with eBay’s APIs. Buy and sell, manage inventory, handle orders, and plumb the analytics in the eBay realm. These are fundamental strategies to improve an item’s visibility on eBay, adjust price points, and really track customer satisfaction.

See which options for integrating and selling on eBay work best for your business model. Choose among the available APIs and get the best practices for payments, shipping, inventory, order management and more. Learn about the brand-new Merchant Integration Platform (MIP), and use it to get to market even faster.

The New Retail is seamless shopping that is more convenient and accessible, more local and global—and more relevant to more consumers—than any retail experience yet. We’ll talk about taking advantage of the SoLoMo aspect of New Retail to provide new shopping experiences and help merchants sell more. We will demo building cool things with Milo APIs that make interacting immediately with the real world as fun as buying that neat shirt you see on TV or playing a game that introduces items you can shop for. We will also introduce and demo Where products and APIs for the Ad and Deals Network, the recommendation engine, and the PlaceGraph™.

There is a lot of noise being made about HTML5 as the new web technology to use and markets for apps as the best way to sell products and distribute applications to our end users. In reality there is not much new about it - all we are doing is treating the web as a distribution and sharing platform and browsers as the software to run our applications on. In this talk Christian Heilmann of Mozilla shows how in the near future application installation and in-app payments can happen on the most distributed market there is - the internet and through your browser. You will see how the technologies we build web sites in got an upgrade to allow us to build light-weight and focused applications that allow our end users to reach their goals faster and in a more re-usable fashion than with traditional ecommerce. Browsers and hardware are becoming more powerful each day, it is time to use that power in a sensible manner.

Actual case studies of developers using Adaptive Accounts and Adaptive Payments to make real, live money. These developers went beyond simple checkout. Here is how they used our APIs to remove the barriers to setting up accounts, initiating pre-approvals, and creating chained payments.

Magento technology has been adopted by over 100,000 stores worldwide, which makes it the fastest growing open-source e-commerce platform. A technical overview of Magento's system architecture will cover layers including libraries in PHP and JavaScript, configuration, controllers, event-driven models, blocks and templates, layout XML, customization and core APIs for integration.

Scanning barcodes and QR codes with mobile devices is booming. It’s a frictionless way to connect the online and offline worlds, and this discussion will cover the technology and best practices for leveraging code scanning in your mobile apps. We will introduce the RedLaser SDK as well.

In 2011, we’re going “frictionless.” We will demo eBay’s latest seller innovations for seamless shipping. Our favorite new APIs enable you to scan any item with a mobile device and the recommended match for weight, dimension and service requirements populates the interface and even provides labels and tracking numbers.