24-hour Physical event at PayPal HQ: Fireside A, Bldg 12, 2211 N 1st ST, San Jose, CA 95132 June 23rd 9:00 AM (PST) Onwards

Pitney Bowes’ Small and Medium Business Challenge is a product and application development hackathon for small and medium business (SMBs) focused applications and solutions.

The submissions that are innovative, technologically impressive, and most importantly submissions that help SMBs solve their problems will be shortlisted for the hackathon, where you will bring your idea to a working app prototype using our Pitney Bowes APIs and other partner technologies.

Our Hackathon Partners

Pitney Bowes APIs and other partner technologies

Pitney Bowes provides enterprise-class commerce technology to fuel your applications. Our Hackathon Platinum Sponsor PayPal provides APIs to easily and securely accept online and mobile payments. Also, our Technology Partner Freshworks, a company that creates business software for support and sales, is providing APIs and SDKs to build apps that bring better customer support in all eCommerce applications.

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Schedule

The challenge is in two phases:

Idea Phase - Candidates are expected to choose a problem an SMB faces and provide a solution write up. Please include contextual information of the problem and corresponding solution and do mention the technology stack and APIs you are planning to use. Last Date of submitting the ideas is the 22nd of June 2018. Prototype Submission Phase - Shortlisted teams from the Idea Phase are expected to submit their final hacks in the submission phase. This event will take place both on-site and virtually. Teams from San-Francisco are invited to the 24 hour onsite hackathon on the 23rd-24th of June, where Pitney Bowes and Freshworks professionals will assist in building the hacks. Teams outside of San-Francisco can submit their hacks online on the HackerEarth platform.

Physical Venue Details - PayPal Office: Fireside A, Bldg 12, 2211 N 1st St, San Jose, CA 95132

Who should register?

Professional developers, Start-ups, App and Solution developers, System Integrators, Shipping, Delivery, Supply chain/Logistics players who are desirous to build solutions for the SMBs

What’s in it for you?

The hackathon offers an opportunity for developers like you to leverage Pitney Bowes expertise and the Freshworks Platform and create apps and solutions for over 750,000 clients.

Top applications also get an opportunity to join Pitney Bowes Start - Accelerator for SMB focused applications. To know more on PB Start - please write to us at developer@pb.com

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