A new service called TelrShops (www.telrshops.com) was launched today by the UAE based online payment gateway Telr. An eCommerce platform that enables merchants to grow their business online. It serves as a long-awaited medium that assists all merchants across industries in offering their products and services online or enhancing their current online activities.  Merchants will have access to all the necessary tools to create unique virtual shops through a simple, fast, and secure process;  The platform is fully integrated with the Telr Payment Gateway enabling merchants to accept all kinds of online payments; a much needed feature to enhance competitiveness and conform to the current trend of moving toward digital payments in line with UAE’s Vision to achieve a cashless society by 2021.

TelrShopsserves the need for a long-awaited medium in the UAE and KSA markets. The platform will support merchants of all sizes, and across a number of industries, in growing their business operations by helping them migrate their product and service offerings online,or by enhancing their current digitalcapabilities. With TelrShops, merchants will have access to all the necessary tools and resources required to create unique virtual shops.

The platform will provide an advanced eCommercesolutionthat caters to all the different needs of merchantsand uses the latest, most cutting-edge technologies,that offera flexible and seamless user experience. TelrShopswill further allowusers to fully access and manage their online shops, at their convenience, via the TelrShops App, where they can also oversee and plan their inventory and orders in an easy,secure and efficient mannerat any given time.

Furthermore, the TelrShops website offers merchants an easy-to-use platformthat allows themto create a professionaland engaging online shop in only 5 minutes without the pre-requisite of needingany complex associated technical skills or web development experience. This means that any licensed business can use the platform to create an online shop without any hassle. The platform alsohosts more than 50 unique themes that have been carefully designed to givemerchants thefreedom and ability to create, personalize and customize the look and feel of their virtual shops.

In addition to a value-adding upgrade on basic services offered by other eCommerce platforms, TelrShops users will be able to benefit from a vast array of practical featureswhichinclude the integrated use of Telr’s award-winning TelrPaymentgateway, inventory and store management via the Telr Shops App, access to data insights & analytics, custom tax management services, orders management, domains integration, multi-currency stores, and 24×7 customer support.The service also promises tooffer all TelrShops users access toTelr’swide-range of industry leading payment solutions along withproviding integrated shipping options that are undertaken byprominentshipping companies.

Commenting on the launch of TelrShops, Telr CEO Khalil Alami, said: “For more than six years, Telr has specialized in award-winning payment gateway solutions for SME’s, and we are pleased to have channeled our expertise into a platform that addresses the unique challenges we’ve seen merchants face over the years.In line with the key pillars of the UAE Vision 2021, we at Telr, are proud to be helping merchants of all sizes,and across different industries,to seamlessly transition towards a cashless payments society.”

Alami went on to add:“Historically, pandemics and crises have been considered the authors of a new era inthe global economic landscape, and represent a major business paradigm-shift factor. Consequently, with the on-set recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, all sectors globally are now quickly re-shaping to adapt to a new and digital focused business model in order to ensure business continuity. The COVID-19 pandemic has also secured the position of payment gateways and eCommerce platforms,such as Telr, at the backbone of any economy” Alamialso said: “As economies and governments from around the world gradually come out of the lockdown phase and ease movement restrictions, we are witnessing a rapidly increasing trend that focuses on the adaptation phase, where basic digitization of all industries has become the new norm. As a result, the eCommerce industry is strategically positioned to become the foundationof the next economic phase, as businesses of all shapes and sizesrush to move theiroperations online.Andcompanies such as Telrareat the core of facilitating this paradigm-shift.”

The TelrShopsservicesareavailable starting October 2020.