Social Media

Trove Market sends in the chatbots for Ecommerce home goods platform

Tapping into the latest trend of employing chatbots to social media, Trove Market launches its own fleet of bots to assist buying and selling home goods locally.

Trove Market has launched chatbots for several social platforms including Facebook, Telegram, Kik and Skype.

The bots will allow users to interact directly with Trove Market via chat, in each respective chat app, so users can quickly find what they’re looking for without leaving the chat. As desired, users may seamlessly launch into the Trove App to communicate directly with sellers and make offers on items found.

“Our chat bots give shoppers an amazing opportunity to quickly search for items that are being sold nearby, or in the location of the person they are talking to, without ever leaving the app,” says Trove Market CEO Xing Wang.

According to a report from Business Insider, approximately three billion people worldwide communicate via messaging platforms, chiefly using Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, QQ Mobile, and WeChat. This number has surpassed the total population of people who use social networking sites. Popular messaging apps in Asia, WeChat, KaKaoTalk and LINE have already found ways of monetizing their chat platforms through conversational commerce.

“Now is the time for bots!”

The automated bot helps both buyers and sellers peruse Trove Market to find amazing items nearby – also helping individuals sell items faster – as part of a global trend that is moving towards conversational commerce, a new phenomenon that sees people using messaging apps to interact with service providers. One example is Uber’s integration with Facebook Messenger, which allows individuals to hail rides and provide arrival updates from within their chat window.

“We are super excited that key major chat platforms are opening up their APIs,” Wang continues. “People are used to interacting via Chats. As we see it, webpages came first, then there were apps, and now it is the time for bots.”

Trove’s bots can be found in the Bot Stores for Kik (@trovemarket), Telegram (@trovebot), and Skype (@Trove Market), and via Trove’s Facebook Page (or via a message to @Trove Market).

Tim Hinchliffe

The Sociable editor Tim Hinchliffe covers tech and society, with perspectives on public and private policies proposed by governments, unelected globalists, think tanks, big tech companies, defense departments, and intelligence agencies. Previously, Tim was a reporter for the Ghanaian Chronicle in West Africa and an editor at Colombia Reports in South America. These days, he is only responsible for articles he writes and publishes in his own name. tim@sociable.co

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