Shop Fair Conference: E-commerce Highlights in Indonesia

We went to the Shop Fair event here in Jakarta few days ago, and really had a lot of fun. What grabbed our attention most was the e-commerce fair where we met some very interesting people with great e-commerce ideas. Here are just a few:

Heatwave

Heatwave (pictured below, left) was one of the busiest booths at the shop fair as they gave out a 15 percent discount to all customers who liked their Facebook page at the fair. What do they sell? Women’s shoes, both offline and online.

Heatwave is a Singapore-based women’s fashion store, it has been in business for seven years now and has had its online store open for about a year. The fashion store already has a strong customer base in Indonesia as its Indonesian Facebook page has almost 400,000 likes and is averaging about 100 transactions every day.

When ordering online, customers can pay via bank transfer or credit card. And if they order the wrong shoe size they can simply return the shoes to Heatwave (though they must pay the delivery charges).

Konek.Us

Konek.Us (pictured below, right) is an interesting Indonesian logistics startup. Its specialty is its COD (Cash on Delivery) service. How does it work? In Indonesia, COD is still the most popular payment system, so if merchants are in need of help to conduct COD, they can use Konek.Us’ service.

When someone uses the COD service, the delivery person comes to their house to pick up the product for sale and then delivers the product to the customer. The money is then wired back to the seller after the transaction is completed. Konek.Us can also help you out with unique bird cage product packaging, but it’ll cost more.

At the moment Konek.Us is still focusing on the Jakarta area, but it plans to expand to other cities and provinces in near future.