Four applications to make purchases in Windows 8

Currently the way we do our shopping has changed radically compared to recent years. Nobody finds it strange to be able to buy from your mobile phone while you are walking or by train, pay instantly and wait for it to arrive at your home. Of course, if there is something that has not changed, it is the interest in the offers

The four applications that you have below, will allow you to take a look at the second-hand market, consult offers from different web pages from the same application, and even forget about your loy alty cards and carry them all on your phone/tablet.

FidMe

With FidMe you will be able to gather in a single application discounts and coupons, as well as loy alty cards from different establishments. The objective is that you forget to carry as many cards with you, so that you can use them all from your mobile phone or tablet.

How do you get it? Depending on the type of card and the business to which it belongs, when trying to register it, it will ask you for the customer number, or it will give you the possibility of scanning the barcode of the card that you have, so that the application copies it and creates one for you. save it. Thus, when going to an establishment, you can dictate the membership number, or show the barcode so that the clerk can use the reader on the screen of your mobile.

The mobile application is available for almost all terminals, including those with Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7/8. In Windows 8 the application maintains total synchronization with those of mobiles, when using the same FidMe account.

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Twenga

With Twenga you will never miss an offer again, since it is an application that collects offers from all kinds of sectors and shows them to you in order (you can choose between Sports, Home Appliances, Home, Fashion and Computing). You also have the option of searching for a product by name, thanks to the search engine integrated into the application.

Once we find something that interests us, if we click on it, the application will take us to the website where the product is being sold advertised at the marked price, since Twenga does not sell anything, it only links to other websites. This way you can avoid going through dozens of websites or search engine pages, trying to find the item you want.

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eBay

The eBay app for Windows 8 lets you tap into the world's largest marketplace wherever you are. It's a free app designed for the eBay community that will help you get more out of your buying and selling. With a simple and intuitive design, you can navigate the app and do whatever you want on eBay.

You won't miss any more bids, as the eBay app for Windows 8 alerts you right away when you're outbid or when auctions are about to end. You can customize the notices to have full control over your purchases. If you pin the dynamic tiles to the Start menu you will have updated information about your activity.

The interface of the application is very intuitive, and when viewing information about the products, not a single piece of information is missing, as you can see in the image above. We even have the option of following the product, or purchasing it from the application itself, as long as we have logged in with a valid eBay account.

When we carry out searches, the first thing we will do is write the term we are interested in, and then we will have the possibility of filtering results according to their status, price or format (auction or buy it now), location; in addition to ordering them according to price, time, price + shipping, or country.

And as if all this were not enough, on the left we are shown the list of categories, with the category of our search expanded, so that we can further refine the selection of results.

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Amazon

The Amazon app allows you to shop, search, compare prices, read reviews from other customers, and share products with your friends using a simple yet elegant interface .

You can access any of Amazon's sites from a single application by selecting the store in the desired country or your shipping address. You have full access to your existing basket, payment options and 1-Click options.

Search for products using the Amazon app and easily add them to your basket to shop. All purchases are made through secure servers just as it is done on the web.

The list of search results is presented in the form of tiles, where we can see the image of the product, title, valuation and price among others.

A drop-down menu will give us the option to restrict results according to the department to which they belong (electronics, books, etc).

The product file shows us all the technical information about it, related products, customer opinions, and all the options like sharing the product, adding it to the basket or to the wish list, in a similar way that you do on the web.

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Comparing is the key

With these applications you will surely be able to find the best offers on the web comfortably from your home, as well as purchase second-hand products through eBay. But if there is something that may attract many people's attention, it is the fact of being able to get rid of all those cards from different establishments, which end up being uncomfortable in wallet.

FidMe seems like an application with very good intentions, and I would like to see how this idea is promoted. I am one of those who bet on grouping the greatest amount of functionalities in the same device, and now that almost all of us have a smartphone in our hands, I think it would be a good idea to think about concentrating most of the things on them.

At the moment, a greater effort is needed on the part of the large establishments that offer loy alty cards, since there is no possibility that not all sites allow us to use ours in the way that FidMe proposes.

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