{"id":44342,"date":"2013-08-17T01:05:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T23:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=44342"},"modified":"2013-08-17T01:07:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T23:07:15","slug":"ebucks-teams-with-citymob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/44342\/ebucks-teams-with-citymob\/","title":{"rendered":"eBucks teams with Citymob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FNB&#8217;s multi-partner loyaly programme, eBucks, has added online design retailer Citymob to its online partners.<\/p>\n<p>Citymob has joined the eBucks fold as both an earn and spend partner.<\/p>\n<p>Citymob is an invite-only online retailer which offers a number designer products for a limited time, in limited number.<\/p>\n<p>The site was ranked as one of the top five South African e-commerce sites in South Africa over the 2012 festive season.<\/p>\n<p>From August 1, Citymob customers have been able to earn eBucks when shopping on the online store, or they can spend their eBucks when shopping on the site.<\/p>\n<p>eBucks members earn 4% of their Citymob spend back in eBucks when they enter their South African ID number on check out.<\/p>\n<p>If customers pay with a qualifying FNB or RMB Private Bank card that has been linked to their eBucks account, they stand to earn additional eBucks from the bank on the same transaction, FNB said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith an increasing number of South Africans coming online and starting to explore the convenience and choice of online shopping, we know it\u2019s important to give them a range of safe and convenient ways to transact,&#8221; said eBucks CEO, Joland\u00e9 Duvenage.<\/p>\n<p>Citymob joins a host of other complementary e-commerce partners on eBucks\u2019 multi-partner offering, including kalahari.com, Yuppiechef, Takealot.com, Netflorist, Zando and Cybercellar, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>Citymob started out as a daily-deals store in the daily-deals heyday, but has since undergone a significant shift in strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The latest partnership with eBucks falls in-line with the company&#8217;s strategy to grow its user numbers and offer more products, and follows a partnership formed in April 2013 with online retailer <a title=\"Wantitall.co.za\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/6609-WantItAll\">Wantitall.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Citymob co-founders <a title=\"Luke Jedeikin\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/7866-Luke-Jedeikin\">Luke Jedeikin<\/a> and <a title=\"Claude Hanan\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/7867-Claude-Hanan\">Claude Hanan, <\/a>the online retailer plans to boost its user base to between 700,000 and 800,000 users by the end of 2013.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on SA e-commerce<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Citymob: from daily deals to designer dibs\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/34261\/citymob-from-daily-deals-to-designer-dibs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Citymob: from daily deals to designer dibs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kalahari.com reports big revenue spike\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/29801\/kalahari-com-reports-big-revenue-spike\/\"><strong>Kalahari.com reports big revenue spike<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kalahari.com outlines SA shopping trends\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/22095\/kalahari-com-outlines-sa-shopping-trends\/\"><strong>Kalahari.com outlines SA shopping trends<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Bidorbuy expects strong online commerce growth in 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/13911\/bidorbuy-expects-strong-online-commerce-growth-in-2012\/\">Bidorbuy expects strong online commerce growth in 2012<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FNB&#8217;s multi-partner loyaly programme, eBucks, has added online design retailer Citymob to its online partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[4869,2065,899,26],"class_list":["post-44342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-citymob","tag-e-commerce","tag-ebucks","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44354,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44342\/revisions\/44354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}