NawarTrus.com Puts Every E-commerce Model Under One Roof

As ecommerce company we often wonder which type of company we’d choose; Auction, daily deals, promo/discounts, or classified listing? Instead of endlessly scratching your head, why not combine them all into one website, like NawarTrus did?

It’s probably a bit odd because instead of sorting based on goods, NawarTrus sorts their customers based on which kind of transaction they’d like. Is it auction, daily deals, discounts, etc? It’s probably going to provide different alternatives for visitors, but in the end it might only confused them although goods sold on each sub products are different.

At NawarTrus‘s frontpage you will get information on six e-commerce sub products namely bidLowz, zeroBid, hotunique, groupbuys, punyaQu and eproxs. You can check on their website for the details to find out what you can do with each sub product.

It would be better if NawarTrus acts as an aggregator of the six sub products instead of merely informing products in general so visitors can check out directly and helps them to decide which sub product they want to use. And a more fundamental input, does this sub products category work well? If not, perhaps Nawartrus should think of other may to embrace e-commerce marketshare in the middle of competition with giants the likes of Rakuten, TokoBagus, Plasa.com, Blibli and others.

VISA Perkuat Keamanan Untuk Belanja Online

Seiring dengan meningkatnya volume transaksi yang terjadi secara online, perusahaan kartu kredit Visa mulai menerapkan sistem keamanan baru bagi penggunanya. Sistem yang sudah diterapkan di India ini menuai popularitas yang cukup signifikan, dan akan segera diterapkan di Indonesia.

Sistem ini dinamakan Authentication Through Dynamic Data (ATDD) yang sebenarnya hampir sama seperti token yang sudah digunakan di beberapa platform internet banking. Pada dasarnya sama seperti sistem mobile banking yang sudah ada, namun layer security ini dikeluarkan secara langsung oleh Visa untuk memperkuat lapisan keamanan yang juga sudah di hampir semua situs e-commerce.

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Consumer’s Trust Level and Behaviour, a Challenge for Local E-Commerce

For the last a couple of years, e-commerce or online buy-sell service providers are growing in number. However this year might gets even more interesting and will become foundation for e-commerce’s growth next stage in Indonesia including in payment gateway development.

Aswin Utomo from AdaDiskon, during interview with DailySocial last month said that 2010-2011 is e-commerce year and 2011-2012 will be payment gateway’s turn. In some ways, I agree. At least payment gateway education by business doers will trigger e-commerce’s growth.

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Another Local E-Commerce: DuniaVirtual.com

E-Commerce competition in Indonesia is getting more and more crowded and hotter. After the biggest e-commerce in Japan, Rakuten, launched Rakuten Belanja Online, other e-commerce companies join the competition and this time we are going to talk about DuniaVirtual.com.

DuniaVirtual has several interesting features, one of them is separating seller and buyer specifically, so visitors can find what they want easier. Buyers will get special page and so will sellers. Seller will get a special page (like virtual store) to display their goods.

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Email – eCommerce Champion

The following article is written by Josep William Widjaja, one of Bina Nusantara International University’s lecturers. He likes reading any book or magazine that talks about IT world, and listening to jazz. His interests are IT implementation on business and marketing, web and mobile development, and infrastructure.

Email often predicted, sooner or later, to be forgotten by everyone, considering other means of modern communication technology keep emerging.

As a simple example, communicating through mobile platform nowadays are more into BBM (BlackBerry Messenger – a huge hit for Indonesian) or WhatsApp that bridges communication between smartphone users; not to mention web based communication means, we have Social Media like Facebook message, Twitter message and other networking websites. People tend to think that communicating through such means are more personal and direct, trendier, and less hassle. In other words, more effective and efficient than email.

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BCA To Launch KlikPay, Mandiri To Launch Tokone. Indonesian E-Commerce Scene Gets HOT!

Two of Indonesia’s biggest bank is Bank Central Asia (BCA) and Bank Mandiri, and both are getting geared towards the future of payments by getting into the e-commerce scene. Just for the past year, some (seriously) big player in the e-commerce segment launches, Plasa, Rakuten, Multiply, Blibli and with the current incumbent such as TokoBagus, Bhinneka etc.

Last year was the year of e-commerce in Indonesia, but the lack of existing e-payment platform hold back the growth of the industry. And so, this year we’re expecting at least 4 e-payment solutions to be available in Indonesia : Doku, Indomog, Unik and Kaspay.

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Bisakah Google Wallet Sukses di Indonesia?

Beberapa hari yang lalu, Google meluncurkan Google Wallet yang merupakan aplikasi mobile yang menjadikan telepon selular bisa berfungsi juga seperti layaknya kartu kredit bagi pengguna. Dengan kepingan NFC terintergrasi yang sudah dipasang pada telepon selular (saat ini hanya ada di Nexus S milik Google), pengguna cukup melambaikan telepon mereka di depan mesin pembaca untuk melakukan pembayaran. Menurut Stephanie Tilenius, Google VP of Commerce and Payments Google, tujuan mereka adalah untuk membuat telepon selular menjadi penghubung keuangan pribadi untuk kupon, poin loyalty merchant, pembayaran, dan penerimaan.

Tidak diragukan lagi bahwa hal ini akan mengubah cara konsumen berbelanja online dan offline, hal ini akan berimbas ke seluruh dunia termasuk Indonesia yang merupakan salah satu negara dengan pertumbuhan ekonomi paling cepat se-Asia Tenggara. Walaupun penetrasi kartu kredit di sini termasuk rendah, Google Wallet masih bisa berimbas pada pertumbuhan kartu kredit di Indonesia, bagaimanapun caranya.

Pertanyaannya adalah: Bisakah Google Wallet membantu meningkatkan aktivitas ecommerce di Indonesia ?

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Will Google Wallet Succeed in Indonesia?

A few days ago, Google launched its Google Wallet which is a mobile app that enable cellphones to act just like a credit card to consumer. With an integrated NFC chip pre-installed (currently only in Google’s own Nexus S), consumer could just wave their phone in front of a reader in order to make payments. According to Stephanie Tilenius, VP of Commerce and Payments at Google, it envisions the cellphone to act as a personal financial hub for coupons, merchant loyalty points, payments and receipts.

There’s no doubt that this will change how consumer buy things online and offline, this will impact the world and Indonesia as one of the fastest growing economy in SEA is not an exception. Despite the low credit card penetration in the country, Google Wallet could still impact the credit card growth in Indonesia, if it plays nice.

But still, the question is : can Google Wallet help leverage Indonesia’s ecommerce scene?

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Plasa’s New Look. Seriously.

The high-profile and government-funded e-commerce website Plasa.com recently announce their new look, as Shinta Witoyo (CEO) tweeted yesterday. Plasa rumored to receive another round of funding by their parent company, Telkom for further development of the marketplace site.

Plasa’s new design actually looks more cramped compared to the old version. More content seemed to got put on the frontpage, and I’m not a UI expert or anything, but i kinda feel less comfortable compared to the old design. But overall, Plasa added more content to the site including their partnership with GantiBaju (Indonesia’s Threadless) and other relevant content about shopping etc.

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