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Logistics Providers for e-Retail: What are your options?
The backbone of the online retail industry is the logistics providers. Since they provide the service of transporting an...
Instant refunds from Jabong for COD customers
Cash-On-Delivery or COD is considered to be one of the game changers of the Indian ecommerce scene. Consumers could pay...
Flipkart questions move to collect tax
Online retailer Flipkart on Thursday filed a petition before the high court questioning the authority of the state comme...
Mobile, electronics reclaim ecommerce after GST-sales, says RedSeer report
When ecommerce began taking off, mobiles and consumer electronics were the rock stars of the industry, as they brought t...
Rocket Internet pumps capital into GFG, but devalues Jabong
Online fashion etailer Jabong has reason to smile. Investors Rocket Internet and AB Kinnevik have given a $ 339 million...
Small shops to become ecommerce pick-up and drop-off points!
Ecommerce companies have come up with an interesting solution to tackle the challenges of last-mile delivery. One of the...
Sale of fake online products worry foreign designer brands
There is a rampant sale of duplicate products of leading foreign brands on online marketplaces. Recently, online retaile...
Sale events will have to wait, decide Flipkart, Snapdeal & Amazon
Ecommerce leaders are treading cautiously before announcing any sale events. Reason? They don’t want to penalized for br...
Profit strategy: Myntra targets offline expansion & Jabong premium labels
With GST at the forefront of ecommerce, marketplace profit strategies took the backseat for a while. But, online fashion...
FirstCry eyeing $75 million from investors; etailer close to profitability
Luck running dry for some, whereas it’s raining money on some. Like it’s the case with kids & baby products online p...
Government to give retailers easier ticket to join ecommerce
There is some excellent news for traditional Indian retailers. According to the buzz, the government is making it easier...
The COD high .. is it reducing?
COD or Cash on Delivery was an instant hit with the Indian masses, especially the skeptical ones who shied away from onl...
Amazon beats Snapdeal on the ecommerce leaderboard, but is it the leader yet?
The latest score calculations put Amazon in Snapdeal’s second place. While Flipkart is still sitting pretty in its numbe...
Amazon tackles weak spots of home-grown players to get ahead
In the past six months, Amazon India has launched a number of product categories like shoes, handbags, women’s ethnic we...
Retailer Landmark Group’s online store live in India
Omni-channel fever is spreading across the retail industry! Dubai based MNC Landmark Group recently launched its ecommer...
PayTM reaching more customers with planned 50,000 retail outlets
PayTM is taking a step ahead to improve its reach to customers. According to reports, it is planning to establish up to...
No dip in discounts by etailers post-GST; demand likely to remain unchanged
The pre-GST sales were advertised as such by ecommerce firms (and offline retail stores) that it would be the...
Flipkart challenges entry tax on online sale in Gujarat in HC
Gujarat High Court today issued a notice to the state Government on a petition filed by the online retail major Flipkart...
Snapdeal ready for seamless GST transition with over 92% seller compliance
Before the dawn of Goods and Services Tax (GST), Snapdeal was one of the first to introduce initiatives to prepare onlin...
Online – Offline : Myntra reverses roles
With the advent and growth of online shopping, many retail players moved to the online space to promote sales and expand...
Urban Ladder sets aside $15 million for offline store; Pepperfry to open 46 experience studios by 2018
In April 2017, IOS informed its readers about Urban Ladder’s plan to go offline by the end of this year. But t...
Ready inventory helped Raja make an easier market entry
K. Raja was an online shopper first before he joined the other side of the table. While searching for a particular produ...
Dharavi craftsmen to sell on Snapdeal
Snapdeal seems to be on a tie-up roll. Earlier it has tried to get more and more small sellers on board, sometimes even...
Amazon’s next target, wholesale operations in India
The ecommerce space is abuzz with news that involves big names! Amazon, the American ecommerce giant which has been chal...
Amazon gets government nod for proposed $500 million investment in food retail in India
Indian government has approved ecommerce major Amazon’s proposed $500 million investment in retailing of food products i...
Craftsvilla cements growth trajectory with latest buy – clothes rental F2SO4
Leading marketplace for ethnic apparel and accessories, Craftsvilla, has purchased F2SO4, a company that rents out desig...
‘Marketplace model not recognised, but no violation by online sellers’ – DIPP
In a development that can cause online marketplaces to fret, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) ha...
Ecommerce companies losing interest in cashback firms, working towards profitability through customer loyalty
In what can only appear to be tough luck for third party services in ecommerce, leading players are gradually bringing d...
Paytm revising its seller commission percentage!
A birdie just told us that Paytm has been moving some numbers around, which could have caused the percentage of its comm...
Walmart plans direct entry into India’s online food & grocery industry
Early this year, there were talks about Walmart collaborating with Flipkart, Snapdeal, BigBasket and others to enter the...
Amazon sends ‘policy warning’ to sellers; vendors say marketplace’s monitoring procedure is flawed
Amazon India has over 2 lakh sellers on its platform. And needless to say, the marketplace has to keep a const...
Union Budget 2015: E-commerce transactions on ‘aggregator’ platforms turn costly
E-commerce transactions through websites and mobile apps based on ‘aggregator model’, including for cab services and onl...
Glitter of jewellery sparkles the online selling space
Everything that glitters may not be gold. But everything that glitters appeals to jewellery loving Indians. Be it heavy...
Amazon collaborates with Indian Railways!
After the collaboration with Yebhi.com failed, IRCTC has been looking to collaborate with another ecommerce giant. It’s...
Government to modify IT Act to support ecommerce growth
There is no doubt that the ecommerce industry is one of the most potential sectors in business and it’s no secret that e...
Discount limitation affecting Amazon the most, out of all ecommerce leaders?
Indian Online Seller shared a report yesterday about how ecommerce biggies Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal are wary of ann...
Govt plans single policy for retail, FMCG and ecommerce
To provide a level-playing field to stakeholders, there is a move in government to harmonise policies of retail, FMCG an...
Junglee- the latest marketplace on the block!
What does Junglee offer to sellers?Powered by Pay with Amazon, seller websites listed on Junglee can take advantage of t...
Women delivery executives help etailers, delivery start-ups to check attrition
We often witness a rise in token initiatives by various organizations around celebratory days like Women’s Day, and Moth...
eBay sellers wait over 60 minutes to resolve grievances!
Harrowing customer service stories from an online buyer’s viewpoint is known to many. But what a seller goes through to...
Marketplaces insist on discounts, not sellers
One would think sellers are offering unimaginable discounts on marketplaces to compete amongst one another to get maximu...
Haryana formulates scheme for ecommerce linkages of MSMEs
Haryana Government has formulated a scheme for ecommerce linkages of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) for onl...
Give your eCommerce Website a Professional Look with Snapdeal’s Image Guidelines Manual
Snapdeal has come up with Image Guidelines Manual which looks pretty interesting and helpful. This is something every in...
Astro can’t leave before clearing AskMe dues, says judicial body NCLT
To say that AskMe’s situation from ‘We are here to stay’ to ‘We are closed’ escalated quickly, would be an understatemen...
Jabong’s Design Hackathon to improve customer experience
Amongst other factors, Jabong understands and recognises the need to constantly innovate and re-invent to stay ahead in...
Flipkart introduces changes to seller panel
Indian ecommerce leader Flipkart has been in the news a lot these days. Last week we saw more than a mere chink in the e...
FDI amendment encourages ecommerce companies to consider selling their own brand with foreign investment
Leading ecommerce companies are planning to sell their own brands to take advantage of the FDI modification. In a Novemb...
Grofers stops last-mile delivery operations in 9 cities
On-demand delivery service Grofers has reduced its operations in India, by pulling out of 9 cities as they were not prod...
Snapdeal’s new way to regulate sellers: Mystery Audit!
Everyone has been talking about Snapdeal’s delivery blunders in the recent past. We were just beginning to wonder if the...
