{"id":541,"date":"2016-11-08T21:08:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T19:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2016.johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/?p=541"},"modified":"2018-11-03T12:17:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T10:17:28","slug":"the-state-of-ecommerce-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2016\/the-state-of-ecommerce-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of eCommerce in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is hovering around the 1% e-commerce tipping point (this is the world wide trend where 1% of a country\u2019s total retail spend is made online). The significance of the tipping point is that once the 1% thresh hold is passed, online retail purchases grow exponentially.<\/p>\n<p>The South African e-commerce sphere represents a new opportunity. We invite you to submit questions about the e-commerce sector to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roslyn Lavery, business development manager at PayFast, a South African payment gateway.<\/li>\n<li>Mechiel Couvaras, business development manager for WooCommerce, a WordPress plugin that allows you to sell anything and gives both store owners and developers complete control of their online store.<\/li>\n<li>Naeem Mayet, a digital strategist who is both the head of online at Autostyle.co.za and a freelancer at DigitalBoutique.co.za where he helps small to medium businesses get their foot in the online space.<\/li>\n<li>Brett Magill, a serial entrepreneur and founder of joburgbrew.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These four experts have generously agreed to share their knowledge and experiences that they have encountered as pioneers in the South African e-commerce space.<br \/>We invite you to join them at WordCamp Johannesburg on Friday 18 November from 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like a particular question\/s answered please submit them below: [Submissions closed after the event]<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is hovering around the 1% e-commerce tipping point (this is the world wide trend where 1% of a country\u2019s total retail spend is made online). The significance of the tipping point is that once the 1% thresh hold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2016\/the-state-of-ecommerce-in-south-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">The State of eCommerce in South Africa<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14439301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26234,25],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-e-commerce","tag-wordcamp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7tR5b-8J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14439301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}