Online Selling Made Easy For MSMEs

Global e-commerce selling and logistics platform, Anchanto, launched Monday its “free forever” plan across Asia Pacific, except Indonesia and Korea, to boost the micro, small and medium enterprises’ (MSMEs) e-commerce capabilities.

Anchanto co-Founder, Chief Operations Officer (COO) and Country Head (Philippines) Abhimanyu Kashikar, in a roundtable discussion with media at Contis Greenbelt, shared that this free, basic online plan, enables the seller to connect to any number of local marketplaces and process up to 50 orders in a month for free.

Given the MSMEs vital contributions to the country’s economic growth, this free service is offered “basically, to address the barriers they have with the technology and improve their (operational) efficiency,” he said.

Open to all interested MSMEs, Anchanto can accommodate as many who wish to be on board the free e-commerce plan.

Abhimanyu said he also hopes to meet with concerned government agencies to offer Anchanto’s free online service.

“Requests (to meet) were sent, am just waiting for the decisionmakers’ availability so we can discuss how we can serve more.”

But, aside from the free plan, Anchanto also offers subscription options depending on the businesses’ needs, “those who have already expanded and scaled up” for a minimal fee, under its business and SME plans.

Anchanto, headquartered in Singapore, with operations across over 14 countries, has been enabling brands, retailers, online sellers, 3PLs, warehousing players, postal associations and eDistributors equip themselves with the best-in-class eCommerce capabilities through its propriety SaaS products and strategic partners, he added.

The company, which currently serves a massive customer base comprising of global players such as Nestle, Pos Malaysia, Telkom Indonesia, 3M, Luxasia, among others, integrates its customers seamlessly with 43+ online marketplaces across Southeast Asia to push inventory, digital content, promotions and receive customer orders – all in real time.

It’s current offerings include the eCommerce Warehouse Management System (eWMS) and SelluSeller (SS) where eWMS enables B2B & B2C eCommerce for 3PLs, Warehouses, Brands, Retailers, Distributors, and Postal Associations (with 43+ eCommerce marketplace integrations and 20+ strategic partnerships, the platform readily enables inventory, order and warehouse operations management), while SS is an online multi-channel selling software that offers a one-stop solution to manage selling on multiple local and cross-border sales channels.

It will soon have its Retail Space Service, targeting its launch during the 1st quarter of 2020.

Anchanto is also expanding its business in the country, planning to open its Cebu and Davao offices by 3rd and 4th quarter of the year respectively, citing investments in logistic technology have an enormous potential to improve the e-commerce landscape in the Philippines.

Their business presence here aims to enable thousands of local SMEs, Micro-SMEs to be onboard the e-commerce platforms by providing online sellers the tools to scale up their revenue massively, and empowering the local entrepreneurs to grow their businesses in Southeast Asia’s thriving e-commerce market, it was explained further. (PNA)