Like every other industry, this global pandemic has posed some serious challenges for FinTech companies as well. Despite the ongoing crisis, this innovative sector is still evolving and generating new opportunities by coming up with some transformative ideas such as shifting to real-time payments, omnichannel payments, and cashless societies to keep up.

Create contactless visitor form to filter visitors and to keep establishments and businesses safe using Beaconstac‘s COVID-19 templates.

Contactless solutions that leverage app-less technology like QR Codes and NFC or app-based solutions can ensure physical distancing, help employees avoid surfaces and avoid overcrowding.

As the world continues to sail through uncertainty in the newly adopted world, businesses are faced with many challenges – shifting business hours, fluctuating supply chains, and protecting their employees – all while ensuring that the public health is a priority whilst taking these decisions.
Contactless solutions will be the new future in a post-pandemic world. Contactless technologies such as NFC tags and QR Codes are on the rise and will continue to be in existence since it promotes zero-touch.

With the advent of smartphone culture, consumers are continually accessing information about products, services, entertainment, and more. And they want this information fast. Using QR Codes in digital marketing campaigns not only delivers information at a single scan but also helps in increasing the ROI. This also gives marketers the ability to analyze the effectiveness of the campaigns in real-time, retarget customers and create personalized campaigns for their best buyers

Almost 20 years ago, when SARS infected 8,000 people in China, it helped catapult Alibaba Group into a global online retail giant

Today, with 4.18 million people affected with COVID-19 worldwide, forward-thinking CPG brands are preparing to flip the switch and go contactless

The global counterfeit market is slowly growing to be hazardous accounting for $1.2 trillion globally.

Luxury brands especially fall prey to it.

NFC is a pathway that gives brands more ways to strengthen the brand, streamline operations, and connect with customers to increase revenue and protect the brand.

Brands today are relying more on direct-to-customer interactions to sell their products on social media. TV advertisements are facing a lower engagement rate as viewers are using smartphones and tablets during commercials. NBCU and other brands are using shoppable QR Codes to engage viewers by letting them buy products by scanning QR Codes on the TV screen which links to the brands’ e-commerce website.

With all the short-term challenges that retailers and brands face – health and safety, decreased labor force and consumer demand, one solution that has consistently proven to be effective is contactless or zero-touch marketing strategies.

With consumers today demanding for a better experience, companies and brands are turning from B2C to Direct-to-Customer or DTC brands. QR codes are already a powerful tool among the DTC brands that are placed on the products, magazines, print advertisements, billboards facilitating increased visual engagement through product information, interactive advertisements and entertaining videos.