FNAC selects Nexway to develop and manage a custom API to increase their recurrent billing and improve customer experience through software bundle subscription renewals.
Nexway™, a premium e-commerce platform and digital marketing expert, has announced that it has reached an agreement with FNAC to develop and manage the FNAC Starter Pack for both FNAC’s online store and brick and mortar operations in France. FNAC, one of France’s main retailers of entertainment and consumer products and consumer electronics, has operations in nine countries. FNAC.com, FNAC’s online store, has approximately 10 million unique visitors per month and is France’s third-most visited e-commerce site.
For FNAC customers purchasing a PC or laptop, the optional Pack offers a software bundle that includes one-year subscriptions to both Microsoft Office 365 and Bitdefender Internet Security software. Nexway has developed a tailor-made Application Programming Interface (API), included in the Pack, which allows customers to renew their software subscriptions from within the FNAC on-desktop ecosystem.
“We have been FNAC’s trusted partner for eight years now. On this most recent collaboration, we worked closely with them to determine their subscription renewal needs and developed an innovative solution that fits seamlessly into the FNAC digital user experience,” said Gilles Ridel, Nexway Founder and CEO.
Directly following the purchase of the consumer electronic, the API is added to the desktop dashboard through an easy-to-follow installation process. It allows the customer to manage orders, subscriptions, add-on products and payment methods. Renewal notifications can be diffused either within the product or through e-mail, with payment taking place within the FNAC ecosystem.
The API, operated by Nexway, allows for the collection of information and customer data, enabling FNAC to optimize subscription renewals.
Of the API, Aymeric Soullard, Microsoft’s Retail Sales Director at Microsoft France, said, “We are delighted to participate in the FNAC Starter Pack in-app store solution for delivery and renewal, a solution imagined jointly with FNAC and Nexway. It really is essential that our resellers have a viable, long-term solution that allows them to enhance the end-user experience within a branded digital environment and increase their subscription renewal rates.”
Ridel added, “Nexway is proud to provide FNAC an innovative solution that offers their customers a FNAC-branded, optimized and intuitive renewal tool through an immersive experience. Our experience in global full-service distribution made us a preferred partner for the successful implementation of a white label in-app store, and we’re please to continue our collaboration with FNAC.”
About Nexway
Nexway: Leading provider of full-service e-commerce solutions for publishers and online retailers of digital software and video games. The company’s white label online stores/cart & in-app stores boost revenue of digital goods with purchase, freemium, trial, subscription revenue models. Based in Nanterre, France, with subsidiaries in the USA, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain, Luxemburg, Morocco, Poland, Japan. Leading companies who rely on Nexway include retailers Orange™, Yahoo! Japan™, Softwareload™, Best Buy™, Pão de Açúcar™, Amazon™; and publishers Kaspersky Lab™, Kingsoft™, Adobe™, 2K Games™, Big Fish™, ESET™, AVAST Software™.
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About the Fnac Group – www.groupe-fnac.com
The Fnac Group is a retailer of entertainment and leisure products and consumer electronics. A leader in France and major player in the countries where it operates (Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Belgium, Switzerland, Morocco, Ivory Coast and Qatar), the FNAC Group had a multi-format network of 199 stores (including 121 in France) at the end of 2015, plus e-commerce sites, including Fnac.com, ranked France’s third most visited e-commerce site (nearly 10 million unique visitors/month). A benchmark omni-channel player, Groupe Fnac’s consolidated revenues totaled €3.876 billion in 2015 and it had 14,100 employees.
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