Tag: ecommerce

You Can Now Purchase Train Tickets Through Tiket

Following the launch of online ticket booking by Indonesia Train Company (PT. KAI), train commuters can now purchase tickets on Tiket.com

The new service adds to the existing offers from Tiket. other than trains you can purchase tickets for airlines, movies, and events such as concerts.

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Blibli celebrates first anniversary, to focus on revenue in the next year

With $10 million to start with, e-commerce giant Blibli celebrate their first anniversary in Jakarta today. Their first year, Blibli recorded 5 million visitors to their website averaging 15 thousand visitors each day, growing from 3 thousands daily visitors when they first launched the service.

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Indonesia Left Out of the Asian iTunes Store Launch Party

Apple has announced an expansion of its iTunes Store into Asia by adding a dozen countries across the region. The countries are Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Missing from the list? Indonesia is the only Southeast Asian country (Well, Myanmar can’t count due to the various embargoes) not on the list [East Timor isn’t either -Ed]. Other than Indonesia, South Korea isn’t on the list as well [even though it was back in March -Ed].

What does this expansion of iTunes Store mean? With credit cards issued within those countries, consumers will be able to purchase more than 20 million songs available from iTunes Store including Asian idols such as Jay Chou, Girls Generation, and Andy Lau. Songs from iTunes Store are available as 256Kbps AAC with no DRM. Consumers will also be able to buy or rent various movies in high definition, thanks to the cooperation with major film studios.

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Inapay Launches InaKlik, Focusing to Acquire New Users

Inapay.com, a payment intermediary system with service system that is similar with joint account, recently launched a new feature to its members. This new feature is named InaKlik where the members can participate in promoting Inapay via the internet by placing a link provided by Inapay on the members’ blogs and websites.

You may be aware that Inapay is a startup that received investment from EastVenture in mid-January 2012. After the investment, many advances and changes happened in Inapay. Some of them are the change in the tagline on the logo, change of the concept of Gold Member and Silver Member, Inapay even handed out gadget prizes to its members. To be sure, this is done to keep acquiring new users to use this service.

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[Simply Business] Kebangkitan Social Media Reseller

Industri e-commerce di Indonesia memang dalam masa pertumbuhan. Kita telah melihat banyaknya dukungan dari layanan payment gateway atas pertumbuhan ini serta perusahaan terkenal dengan kantong tebal. Namun sayang, sebagian orang masih menjual produk mereka di Facebook. Ya, Facebook!

Facebook tidak pernah diperuntukkan sebagai tempat menjual barang, namun pengguna Indonesia melakukannya. Ini juga terjadi di Multiply, Friendster dan bahkan BlackBerry Messenger Groups. Di mana orang berkumpul, maka disitulah para penjual melakukan aksinya.

Mari kita lihat Multiply. Perusahaan ini melakukan pivot dari situs jejaring sosial menjadi marketplace karena mereka melihat pertumbuhan yang pesat dari para penjual yang menggunakan Multiply sebagai sarana untuk menjual barang di negara Asia seperti Filipina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapura, Thailand, dan Vietnam.

Setelah pivot ini, Multiply kini diperhintungkan sebagai tempat tujuan belanja online sosial di Filipina dengan lebih dari 120.000 penjual yang menjual dagangannya ke lima juta pengguna. Melihat besarnya pasar di Asia, mereka bahkan memindahkan kantor pusat mereka ke Indonesia dan akan berkonsentrasi pada ekspansi e-commerce mereka di Asia Tenggara.

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[Simply Business] The Rise of Social Media Reseller

E-commerce industry in Indonesia is definitely on the rise. We’ve been seeing a lot of payment gateway supporting the growth and also big name marketplace with big cash. But alas, the majority of people are still selling their products on Facebook. Yes, Facebook!

Facebook was never meant to be a place where people can sell their items but the Indonesian did it anyway. This also happens to Multiply, Friendster and even Blackberry Messenger Groups. Where there’s people gathering, there’s people trying to sell you something.

Let’s take a look at Multiply. The company pivoted from a social networking site to a marketplace because they’re seeing major growth of sellers using Multiply in many Asian countries like Phillipine, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

After the pivot, Multiply is now considered as the largest online social shopping destination in Philippines with over 120,000 sellers targeting about 5 million users. Seeing the huge market in Asia, they actually moved their headquarters to Indonesia and will be concentrating their e-commerce expansion in South East Asia.

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Plasa Berencana Untuk Menjual Bisnis E-commerce Mereka ke eBay

Tampaknya eBay akan secara langsung masuk ke dunia e-commerce Indonesia dengan mangakuisisi bisnis e-commerce Plasa.com, menurut informasi yang kami dapatkan dari berbagai sumber, baik dari dalam maupun luar perusahaan.

E-commerce menjadi arah baru bagi Plasa di bawah mantan CEO Shinta Dhanurwardoyo, tetapi sekarang Shinta telah keluar dari Plasa dan online marketplace yang dimiliki Plasa secara praktis berjalan sendiri tanpa arahan, perusahaan ini disebut-sebut sedang berusaha memotong kerugian dengan menjualnya ke eBay. Kesepakatan ini belum final dan masih ada kemungkinan untuk tidak terjadi. Saat ini kedua perusahaan masih memperdebatkan detail dari kesepatakan ini.

Plasa.com mengalami masa sulit setelah ditinggal CEO sebelumnya, Shinta Dhanurwadoyo dan Chief Innovation Officer mereka Andi S. Boediman. Plasa merekrut Iriana Muadz dari Heinz ABC pada bulan Maret 2011 sebelum akhirnya juga meninggalkan perusahaan bulan kemarin. Sementara ini, Aris Siswoko dari manajemen Telkom dikatakan mengelola perusahaan tersebut.

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Plasa Looking to Sell Its Ecommerce Biz to eBay

It seems that eBay may jump directly into Indonesia’s ecommerce scene by acquiring Plasa.com‘s ecommerce business according to sources inside and outside of the companies.

Ecommerce may have been Plasa’s new direction under former CEO Shinta Dhanuwardoyo, but now that she’s gone and Plasa’s online marketplace is practically on autopilot, the company is said to be looking to cut its losses by selling it to eBay. This deal however is still not finalized and there’s a chance that it may not even happen. At the moment, both companies are still wrangling about the details of the deal.

Plasa.com has been having a rough time since the departure of former CEO Shinta Dhanuwardoyo and Chief Innovation Officer Andi S. Boediman. The company hired Iriana Muadz from Heinz ABC in March 2011 before she too left the company last month. In the meantime, Aris Siswoko from within Telkom’s management ranks is said to be running the company.

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Tokopedia Adds UNIK As a Payment Method

Last week Tokopedia announced that it has adopted UNIK as an additional payment option that its customers can use to purchase goods from its online stores.

UNIK, short for Uang Elektronik (Electronic Money) is a payment system developed by a company called Transmaya. it covers online purchases, utility bills, and phone credit top ups and the company is also working to add fund transfers to its service. To use UNIK, buyers will have to register as a member and deposit funds before they can take advantage of the facilities.

Tokopedia explains on its website that the benefit for customers by using UNIK is the instant verification of payments which allows a speedier transaction between merchants and buyers. For merchants, the benefit is the addition of UNIK users as potential customers.

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Multiply Relokasi Kantor Pusat dari Boca Raton, Florida, ke Jakarta

Daniel Tumiwa and Peter Pezaris dari Multiply

Sebelum pembukaan acara Multiply Online Seller Convention di Jakarta pada hari Sabtu, 28 Januari, Peter Pezaris, CEO Multiply mengumumkan bahwa perusahaanya akan memindahkan kantor pusat mereka dari Boca Raton, Florida, ke Jakarta.

Multiply telah memiliki lebih dari 50 karyawan di Jakarta dari total 126 karyawan global. Atas pertumbuhan yang signifikan di Indonesia dan Filipina, Multiply melihatnya sebagai alasan yang sangat tepat jika kantor pusat di pindahkan ke Asia Tenggara.

Selain itu, Multiply juga mengumumkan perpanjangan program bebas biaya kirim dan transaksi yang sebelumnya akan berakhir pada akhir bulan ini ke akhir bulan Maret 2012. Dengan kata lain, konsumen Multiply bisa menikmati layanan bebas biaya kirim, dan para penjual tidak akan dikenakan biaya atas transaksi menggunakan Multiply Commerce sampai dengan tanggal 31 Maret 2012.

Multiply juga mengumumkan bahwa konsumen Multiply di Indonesia telah dapat melakukan pembayaran dengan menggunakan XL Tunai, yang merupakan hasil kerja sama dengan operator XL Axiata, selain itu pembayaran juga kini bisa dilakukan melalui jaringan ATM Prima di seluruh Indonesia.

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