Online Bliss: Kenyan SMEs International Bound

The online shopping era is creeping in quick. There have been quite a number of online shopping platforms operating locally for a while now, the most notable being OLX. Although online shopping is yet to be fully embraced locally with many being weary of buying goods and products online, the trend is on an upward trajectory.

The newest entrant in the industry, Kilimall has adopted the most revolutionary model yet. It is a platform that offers shop owners a chance to open an online shop. This model has been a huge success in the developed countries. Companies like Alibaba and Amazon have grown to the biggest players in the world, giving some serious competition to the earlier players like Wallmart and other traditional supermarkets.  The ripple effect of the spread of online business is that it has created capacity for a huge number  of small and mid-size enterprises to expand their scope of business and reach markets they were never before able to. The top players have literally created thousands of millionaires.

Entry of such players as Kilimall in the local scene can be quite a milestone for local businesses. The geographical limits of conducting business will be a forgotten problem. Picture this: A small shop owner selling jewellery or outfits in downtown Nairobi can easily get clients from Rwanda and S.Africa without having to open up branches in these countries. This will potentially have an explosive the SME sector as more and more Kenyan products get to reach wider circles.

As a shop owner, the most attractive aspect of this is that the costs of doing business from your end are kept at almost nil. The trick to make a successful entry into the online shopping business is to get a professional platform to operate from. Such a platform should offer you a back-end access so that you can be able to trace all transactions that relate to the goods. Otherwise the logistical mess with the absence of such a service would be one big nightmare.

Kilimall is the first platform that offers shop management options to merchants. The platform has attracted quite a number of big merchants already, despite being just over one month old. Baus Optical, Panasonic, Sony, Konka, Lenovo among many others already have set online shops on Kilimall. So what is making Kilimall an attractive site for merchants? To put it plainly, the solutions offered by Kilimall if quantified comparatively to setting up your own E-platform or online shop would set you off more than one million bob.

The most attractive feature is the Integrated Conversion Tracking. With this, you have access to your shop’s backend and you’re able to track all your transactions. You can see who bought your products, when, the payment and delivery details. You also get a custom domain. For instance, baus has theirs set as baus.kilimall.co.ke. You can customize your shop with your brand colors, banners and posters. With this, why would you need to invest in a website? The platform allows you to display an infinite number of products and services for an unlimited amount of time. This means that you can display thousands of products without having to worry about storage and display space. Delivery fees are catered for by the customer and delivery is done by professional delivery companies.

This is the biggest revolution yet. I can bet that opening a shop on www.kilimall.co.ke would be worth a lot to you.