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Flipkart makes gifting easier with digital gift codes
Flipkart is making it easier for people to gift each other things from the internet! In a recent statement, Flipkart ann...
Online sellers guide to ecommerce in 2015: Study
Yotpo recently released its annual study titled 'The state of ecommerce', which managed to number crunch its way through...
Snapdeal adds home service category to 4 major cities
Online Marketplace, Snapdeal is expanding its home service category to four cities, which includes Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumba...
AskMe, investor Astro fight it out with unpaid sellers, employees caught in the crossfire
It is the investors versus the former management in the ongoing legal battle at the closed virtual premises of Askme. Wh...
How to market your products with good emailers
You’ve Sent a Mail.You are a multi-channel seller looking to increase your marketing reach and want to do some email mar...
Online B2B gets more attractive; OfBusiness another company to receive major investment funding
Online business to business is a lesser spoken of form of online selling. But according to experts online B2B is the nex...
Amazon’s delivery man robbed by former employees
The delivery staff of ecommerce companies continue to be at risk as cases of them being robbed and beaten up is on the r...
Flipkart’s in-house vendor WS Retail sold stuff worth Rs 3,135Cr last year
WS Retail Services Pvt Ltd, which used to be the only vendor on India’s largest e-commerce platform Flipkart.com before...
Possibilities of cashless payments in the face of demonetisation – what are the measures mobile wallets are taking to increase usage?
Despite a month having passed since the landmark demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes, the issue continues to m...
Jabong does well in Jan, looking to break even shortly
Leading fashion etailer Jabong has witnessed its highest performance in January 2016, a figure unparalleled in the time...
Flipkart in trouble? Complaint filed with CCI
ComplaintOffline traders are not happy with Flipkart in particular and online marketplaces in general. An industry body,...
Online grocery still has potential, but needs more attention
What can help online grocery stores click (and make money)?Shopping for groceries and daily needs online is a lot more c...
Flipkart’s ‘Human Stories’ Vs Amazon’s ‘Indian Lingo’ – unique ad campaigns of etailers
All online players be it marketplace leaders, grocery portals or startups, understand the importance of offline advertis...
Entry tax encouraged in Maharashtra due to loss of revenue; Will this state introduce entry tax too?
Things are looking bad for etailers in the department of entry tax. Flipkart and Amazon already lost the battle against...
It Is Official: E-commerce Is Killing Traditional Retail
All recent reports on retail industry in India seem to point to the exact same thing. The future of retail in India is v...
Beauty etailer Nykaa counts on private label to increase FY18’s revenue
Online cosmetics and beauty store Nykaa is positive that private brands would help them triple their revenue in the FY 2...
Sales on marketplaces increases but losses continue
Numbers about the rise in sales on marketplaces and the growth of ecommerce in general are thrown all around in the ecom...
B2B ecommerce appeal to investors while B2C companies struggle for funding
The finances of Indian ecommerce seem to be slowing down. Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to raise capit...
How to Manage Your Online Retail After the Sales Boom is Over
The sale season has come to an end. The Big Billion Day(s) Sale, the Great Indian Festival Sale and End of season sale h...
Pepperfry’s founder talks about their challenges in the online market
E-commerce industry in India is booming by leaps and bounds. The early movers in e-commerce are expanding their existing...
Alibaba strengthens ecommerce, payments & logistics to fight Amazon, Flipkart
Last month Indian Online Seller reported how Alibaba is looking for delivery partners in India to handle end-to-end logi...
Logistics in Indian ecommerce in huge demand, roadblocks aplenty
That logistics is the lifeline of ecommerce is an accepted fact. Ecommerce companies are also spending a large chun...
GoJavas, Ecom Express, Delhivery toiling hard to match ecommerce leaders’ pace
Right from Flipkart, Snapdeal and Amazon, all of them consider logistics & delivery as the key area that will drive...
Online Festive Sales may slash mall footfalls by 50% – ASSOCHAM survey
An ASSOCHAM report suggests that malls situated in metropolitan cities will witness more than 50% decline in footfa...
Declining Profits in Retail Make Retailers Embrace E-Commerce
If 90s were the age of pop music and 2000s were the age of Internet, the 2010s are clearly the age of consumerism.The dr...
Ecommerce policy to outline business category of Flipkart and Snapdeal
Last week Flipkart won a landmark VAT tax case in Kerala, after pleading that it is like an escrow agent,...
Grofers’ modified delivery model sinks losses & boosts revenue; Here’s how
Grofers is a leader in the online grocery industry along with its rival BigBasket. The etailer’s revenue shot up in July...
‘Make in India’ initiative, will the ecommerce industry benefit?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the ambitious ‘Make in India’ campaign, which will cover 25 sectors, including tex...
Social marketplace GoCoop weaves ecommerce deal with Exim Bank to help artisans sell online
GoCoop Solutions and Services (GoCoop) and Export Import Bank (Exim Bank) have come together to chalk out...
Road Runnr running to meet last mile delivery for ecommerce
The logistics industry is witnessing a boom in demand in the ecommerce sector. Among the upcoming players in the market...
Buyers, online sellers, ecommerce marketplaces hooked on cash-back this Diwali?
“Cash-back is like icing on the cake. And this icing never melts,” said one online consumer. “It’s opium for shopah...
Ecommerce market set to touch $20 billion in 2015
Going by the rate at which ecommerce in India is growing we suspect it drinks milk twice a day! By 2015, ecommerce marke...
BigBasket sells big, but losses have higher score
The online grocery industry is booming, but so are the losses, as BigBasket has discovered. The leading online grocer ha...
The Future of Retail is Online
That ecommerce is a sunrise sector in India was known to those who keep tabs on the happenings in the sector. Sales were...
Can online groceries sustain in India?
With the Indian ecommerce turf heating up like never before, everyone is wondering what’s next. Be it fashion, lifestyle...
The ecommerce Tax Burden could get bigger with GST law from Cent. Govt.
Clarity on the imposition of GST laws on ecommerce have been much awaited and the central government has finally drafted...
Flipkart, Snapdeal, Paytm announce festive sales; would festive cheer help etailers to cover losses?
Deals and discounts are back! Christmas and the New Year are going to bring some festive cheer to ecommerce companies an...
Union ministry to launch e-mediation centre for ecommerce consumer disputes
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs has come to online consumers’ aid by creating an Online Consumer Mediation Centre (OCMC...
Indian Ecommerce 2016 – IOS takes a look at the year that was
It’s the end of the year and a performance report card is inevitable. IOS decided to take a look at how the big names ha...
Delhivery inches closer to revenue goals with 2x growth; But will competition derail its plans?
The FY 15-16 has been twice as good for logistics company Delhivery. Filings by the registrar of companies state that th...
Improved Security, Mobile Technology, Shopping Connectivity accelerating ecommerce- ASSOCHAM
The e-commerce industry is likely to generate 2.5 lakh jobs in online retail this year, as the hiring in the sector is e...
Flipkart releases 43 new product subcategories
In an email to sellers, Flipkart has informed about the launch of 43 new product sub-categories. This means sellers can...
Effect of ecommerce – Size of Retail Stores in Malls Shrinking
At present, online retail sales amounts to less than 1% of the total retail sales in India. But the ecommerce industry i...
Consumer Protection Law to include online retail too
Online retailers have a reason to be thrilled, considering the supersonic speed at which ecommerce in India is growing....
Ecommerce to see nearly 10 million sellers online by 2020
Over 10 million sellers are expected to be online to cater to the huge growth in the customer base on such platform in t...
India Posts’ latest Rs 322 crore investment proposal benefits ecommerce
In a bid to strengthen its position in the e-commerce market, India Post has proposed to invest Rs 322 crore till 2019-2...
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[Infographic] Online Shopping in India
Online retail has evolved in the past 2-3 years to become one of the most lucrative industries in the country. It has be...
2016 was mellow year for online retailers; will private labels bring profitability in 2017?
The year 2016 would be remembered as the year when the inflated valuations of ecommerce unicorns and start-ups came cras...
eBay gives sellers 3 month window to become ‘top rated’
Last month, IOS reported that eBay was upgrading its dashboard and also revamping its Seller Evaluation standards, which...
