InAcademia for Merchants – Unlocking the Student Marketplace
With over 17 million students in the EU they are a huge and growing market opportunity. As the most digitally connected generation ever, unless your business is able to support them 24*7 then they will simply find somewhere else to go.
Offering special deals, discounts and tailored services is a great way to capture these consumers and help build life-long loyalty.
How do you identify a Student?
If your online business targets students, then you need a simple way to ensure your special offers and deals are only going to those who really qualify. But how do you check if they really who they say they are?
Student union cards can be impossible to check online and email addresses can be easy to share or fake.
Equally, many students could be put off by complicated systems that require them to share personal information and abandoned carts are lost customers and lost profits.
You need a fast, reliable method of validating student status that fits with the way you work.
InAcademia is here to help
InAcademia is ideally positioned to provide simple, trustworthy validation of academic affiliation.
InAcademia provides a lightweight, low cost online service that leverages a students’ existing academic identity, removing the need for costly and privacy-risking manual processing.
InAcademia is the digital equivalent of asking a student or academic to show you their university or student card in order to access or buy your services and products.
By adding the InAcademia button to your checkout you can validate student discounts in real-time without the need to collect personal information. Simplifying your workflow and increasing the confidence of your customers.
So if you need a simple, authenticated and trustworthy validation of academic affiliation, InAcademia is the solution! Get in touch and unlock the opportunities from the student marketplace.
How it works
InAcademia uses the international eduGAIN service to validate students based on the existing student identity provided by their university. This ensures that the data is up-to-date, requires no registration with other organisations and the student is validated by a system they use every day and trust with their data.
Using InAcademia means that you don’t have to integrate with eduGAIN or negotiate agreements with each university. It’s Fast, Simple and Secure.
InAcademia Availability
InAcademia is being used in real-life retail workflows for internationally known brands in 15 countries (Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, Malta, Romania, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands and Turkey) and we’re actively recruiting commercial use cases as launch partners in all European countries.
So if you need a simple, authenticated and trustworthy validation of academic affiliation, InAcademia is the solution!
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