Like every other industry on planet, retail businesses are also facing many challenges. To cope up with these challenges, many big players in the retail industry are going mobile. Major brands such as Walmart, eBay, and Amazon either already has, or is actively developing, retail-based apps for smart phones. Most of them are choosing the iPhone platform as it has many built-in features and allows retailers quickly respond to the changing customer expectations and offer creative encounters that can improve brand loyalty and bottom-line sales.

As the iPhone retail app development demand is growing, many professional iPhone development companies are stepping forward to deliver the goods to retailers. These companies can help retailers to attract new customers and retain the existing ones, by developing highly customized iPhone CRM apps. This type of app will allow retail businesses to control a fully incorporated, protected and congregated network through their iPhones or iPads to implement forceful demand-generation promotions, and effectively target marketing messages to converse store announcements and sales promotions to customers via SMS text messages, MMS messages, alerts etc. Retail businesses can also look to develop GPS based custom apps, which will help a customer to find out the nearest store of that retail chain supported with maps. Moreover, web based iPhone apps offering mobile storefront to display products, prices with price comparison, stock checking and review-rating features, are getting quite popular these days. This kind of app will really enhance the customer satisfaction and with social media integration, it can do viral promotions for the brand and its products.

These professional iPhone development companies can also integrate digital newsletters or catalogs into these retail apps, which the users can subscribe to by providing their personal details. This will not only help retail businesses communicate their offers and other valuable information to customers from time to time, but will also help them understand customers’ buying habits. After analyzing the buying habits of customers, retail businesses can develop apps powered with GPS, which automatically sends alerts about product-specific offers, product launch or discounts to customer iPhones, based on their preferences, whenever they enter a Geo-fenced location. This kind of app can bring new customers to the store and eventually they may buy the product. These professional retail iPhone app development companies can also create highly customized multi-functional shopping apps offering mall maps that help retail customers to locate stores, elevators, restrooms, and ATMs within the mall. In addition, these mall apps can suggest gift-giving ideas that can generate a list of stores near the user that might carry those products.

All these iPhone solutions discussed in above passages can do wonders for any retail business. However, the solution must cater to the specific business requirements. Similarly, an iPhone solution’s quality directly depends upon the experience and expertise of the development company. A retail business interested in developing a custom iPhone solution, must choose an iPhone development company on the grounds of its portfolio, clients, experience, expertise, employee strength and most importantly should check if the company is Apple certified or not.

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