The online trading platform of the Province of Girona ‘Home in a click‘ already allows you to geolocate the more than 1,600 establishments that are members. In addition, customers can open an individual file for each, with details such as exact coordinates, address, telephone and their website. Currently, this ‘marketplace’ already has 1,624 businesses, spread over 47 different portals managed by the various local bodies of Girona’s counties. With the aim of promoting its digitization, the Provincial Council has also finished making available to establishments a payment gateway to facilitate their online sales.
‘A casa en un clic’, the online commerce platform of the Diputació de Girona, continues to incorporate services. From now on, all the establishments in the demarcation that are attached to it can be geolocated thanks to the incorporation of the Municipal Territorial Information System (SITMUN). In this way, explains the Provincial Council, “it will be much easier to locate them and move around”. Once the business is located on the map, a single click allows you to open an individualized file, which contains data such as exact coordinates, address, contact phone number or official website, accompanied by a photograph of the business space or its corporate image.
This free web marketplace was launched in mid-2020 by Local Economic Development and Promotion Service of the Province of Girona. The aim was to encourage local consumption, help local small businesses and create a space that gave them visibility where they could offer their services or products at a time marked by the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. Currently, ‘A casa en un clic’ incorporates 1,624 establishments spread over 47 portals managed by various local bodies in the Girona regions. Of the 62 member municipalities, 46 have their own platform, while the rest (all municipalities of the Cerdanya) have decided to create one at regional level.
On the platform you can consult all the existing shops and businesses, through searches by municipality or by category. In addition, the advanced search allows you to filter, according to the payment method, whether the product can be served at home, whether it can be bought online, etc. Right now there are 549 registered users. At the same time, a space has been created so that each municipality can promote its own local trade campaigns or during specific times of the year, such as Nadal, Saint George or the Black Friday. Now, there are four active ones (ofBlueberries, Repoll, stained glass windows and Vilablareix). Since this option was activated in the middle of last year, there have been 33.
Payment gateway
The Diputació de Girona has also just made a payment gateway available to all establishments that adhere to ‘A casa en un clic’. “It is an easy-to-set-up tool that aims to facilitate the management of digital sales for all businesses that want to host it and that responds to a request from the town councils of the demarcation”, emphasizes the Provincial Council. The Diputació de Girona supports the councils and local bodies in the implementation and use of the different portals, but the municipalities are responsible for managing them on a daily basis (content or registration of registrations and cancellations). Town councils wishing to join can process the request directly online.