Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello everyone and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. I'm your host Julia LeMarr and

joining me today is Sarah Hicks. She is the co-founder and CEO at

Reaction Commerce. Welcome Sarah.

Hello, thank you so much for having me.

Absolutely, we're so excited to chat with you here on Future Check Podcast.

For our listeners who don't know about Reaction Commerce, go ahead and give us a little bit of an overview about your something.

So Reaction Commerce is a completely open source commerce platform built for retailers and

brands who might be looking for either to launch their own new business or expand and grow their existing business.

So because it's completely open it means that it's completely customizable, it's

modifiable, extendable, so anything can be adapted to to meet the needs of

retailers and brands who might be otherwise you know locked in and needing to make

kind of more customizations than they're currently able to.

So I'll give you a couple examples. Out of the box reaction includes kind of what I call

all the table stakes features that a retailer or brand would need to create an e-commerce store

front.

So that's catalog management, it's inventory management, shopping cart,

check out, payment solutions, taxes and shipping integration,

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