| This portal, still in testing and subsidized until 2021 with municipal funds, now includes 20 businesses that add more than 100,000 products offered | The market place that the City Council of Las Torres de Cotillas has made available to merchants in the municipality for free until February 2021, has already started.
On this website, still in testing, there are already 20 shops that offer more than 100,000 articles.
"By its numbers it is already one of the most prominent local market places in Spain and its services include local and national logistics adapted to each business, SEO positioning in search engines, communication tools, payment systems (secure payment gateway by POS) ", explains the Councilor for Commerce and First Deputy Mayor, Marian Fernández Fernández, who reports that this portal designed to integrate local retail trade will work 100% in a few days. In addition, this commercial tool is not only limited to the sale of items in stock and will soon have spaces for fresh food products and the offer of services and discounts from local businesses.
"We opened a new sales channel to help companies increase their activity and combat the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, promoting the technological transformation of businesses, boosting the sector and promoting its potential abroad," says the Councilor for the Economy, Francisco Jesús López Manzanera. Open online space This market place, whose spirit is that any business can start working online in a simple and efficient way, was presented at an event with professionals on August 4 at the "Pedro Serna" House of Culture and was attended by the mayor Torreño, Joaquín Vela Fernández. The set of digitized businesses will be grouped and geolocated in the marketplace constituting a connected community, generating an online space open to all people who are committed to a local, direct and ethical purchase in the businesses of their city.
"This project offers the possibility of benefiting from a new service, the objective of which is to modernize the small business, increase its productivity and make it more agile and efficient, providing it with an electronic commerce platform from which to offer its products and services ", indicates the mayor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas