Trends Setters of Online Shopping Websites in Pakistan
E-commerce includes buying and selling items online through e-commerce websites that present services and products to willing customers across the globe. E-commerce is very successful as many people buy items and products online or sell them.
What do these Online Shopping Platforms do?
These websites are used by many people as it is not hard to make an account and buy what one wants; nowadays out of the approximate 7 billion people in the world about 6 billion have mobile phones. It would not be far-fetched to say that many of these people use e-commerce services to buy or sell products, or to send products to their friends and family. There are several renowned global e-commerce websites and organizations that offer the services of purchasing and selling.
These organizations and websites include Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba, eBay, and numerous more. E-commerce business electronically transfers information and money to complete transactions on through their platforms. There are more than a few types of E-commerce which include business to business, customer to customer, business to customer, or customer the business, and some more involving administrations.
Who Invented E-Commerce?
The inventor of E-commerce was an English Entrepreneur, called Michael Aldrich, who invented E-commerce to allow transactions between customers/consumers and businesses, or between businesses. This process of transactions later came to be called E-commerce.
Let’s Explore Some Best E-Commerce Websites
Amazon.com
The leading company in E-commerce is Amazon without a doubt. And has more than 500 million products sold in The US, and more in other countries as well. The founder of the biggest E-commerce company Amazon is Jeff Bezos.
Amazon used to be a small business founded in 1994 but it has grown massively from its humble origins. Due to its giant influence, Amazon has also extended its services from just E-commerce to much more. It has now video streaming services through Amazon Prime Video, Twitch, and A few more. Due to Amazon’s fast and efficient customer service, it has gained the trust of consumers and has led to a massive rise in its popularity. Currently, Amazon operates in 58 countries around the world.
Ebay is an enormous e-commerce website initiated on track by Pierre Omidyar in the 1990s, you can buy as well as can sell your products on eBay
Once you open the websites of eBay you will indulge in the fantastic world of seasonal gifts items, combos along with guidance, daily use appliances, apparel, watches fishing kits, and all the stuff which you need can find on eBay.
Some Special Features: Simple and advance search option is available on e-bay to filter out products along with their sizes, colors, price, availability, expected delivery time, and authentic customer reviews.
Access to customer reviews helps to choose the right products as per your needs. Some items with free shipping options are also available, worn and new product buying options are also available.
Buy it now and auctioned it off, both options are available.
How to shop? Website and eBay application both are available.
Etsy is a gigantic online shopping marketplace which is specialized to sell customized handmade products, home décor, and handmade organic soaps to wedding gifts; thousands of unique products designed by brilliant artists are available on Etsy.
You might not find smart appliances on Etsy just like Amazon, eBay & Shopify, but you can discover and purchase homemade ground-breaking products designed by creative artists from their homes.
Anyone can select an option to open their own virtual Etsy store and display their artistic products to potential customers.
How to Shop? Like all others best online shopping websites Etsy store can access through its website and play store application.
Another best online shopping website is Wal-Mart. This online store is best for daily pickups items like grocery & essentials, school supplies, and daily use furniture, etc.
Walmart retailing stores were opened in 1960 by Sam Walton, and it’s astonishing that Wal-Mart owns one of the finest online shopping websites and Wal-Mart’s google play store application for consumer convenience.
Some Special Features: Their online store offers reserve pick-up delivery options, which facilitate you to get products delivered at your home store at your given or desired time. It’s a wonderful option for managing your life as per your own feasible accessible time.
On a weekly basis, Wal-Mart offers FLASH PICKS items in which they offer multiple products at good discounts. Clearance sale is also available in a special offer portion.
Alibaba is china based giant e-commerce fastest growing company established by Jack Ma in 1999. This china based online company is selling consumer electronics, sports supplies, beauty products, and lots of other trending categories of medical supplies and vehicle accessories as well.
Special Features: You can buy Items directly from the factories in a bulk quantity by using this online shopping website. Feature of Diverse Payment Option is introduced by Alibaba which facilitate customers to buy today and can do payment after 30 or 60 days.
To discover top and trending supplies live is quite easy to search on Alibaba. They introduce Fashion Online Trade Show every year and release information about trending products in the category of apparel, shoes, eye wears, timepieces, kids’ big bow clips, leather products, etc.
Alibaba allows its customers to buy trending products 1 piece, 10 pieces, 100 pieces, or whatever number of products they required.
Another high-growing online shopping and gifts delivery Pakistani website is Giftspak.com. This e-commerce website provides solutions to overseas Pakistanis and local ones to send gifts and basic needed products to their family members and to anyone to whom care & tenderness need to express.
At a very affordable price, you can deliver your affections in the form of Anniversary gifts, Fresh Flowers, Delicious cakes, Seasonal Fruits gifts, Traditional Mithai, Chocolates, Ramadan Baskets, Fragrances, and specially designed Combo gifts.
Some Unique Features
FAST & FREE Same day, Midnight delivery, and Specific time delivery features are introduced, to make your loved one happy and surprised.
Special baskets are designed for special occasions like Father’s day, Mother’s Day, Parents Love & care basket, etc.
Surprisingly 10% discount coupon is given to all customers on the subscription of GiftsPak.com.
Giftpak is committed to sending your gifts all across Pakistan, and you can place an order on this website from anywhere around the world by using a simple and easy-to-use payment method.
Daraz is one of the Pakistani online shopping websites that starts working in 2012.
Daraz is a major seller of fashion retailing products, home appliances, wardrobe organizers, feature phones, knotted rugs, and all the other things consumers required.
Special Features: Daraz.pk offers flash sales during normal days and on occasions, they also offer high discounts, especially their 11/11 sale is the most popular one for which Pakistani consumers wait impatiently. Daraz online mall offers more than 60 % discount on school accessories occationally.
In this online forum, individual household consumers can also sell their products; Track my order option is also available for customer help.
Final Verdict:
Cut the long story short while E-commerce and online shopping industry is showing amazing performance in Pakistan, Local and international online shopping and gift-sending platforms are reflecting tremendous growth and enjoying a first-class level of customer satisfaction.
Simply the future of e-commerce in Pakistan will be Gleaming & Sparkling with these high performing online shopping websites.
Article by Aayan Rasool Khan
