Eyeing huge impact in these areas, Shopify has made new partnerships in Southeast Asia and China.
This e-commerce player, which is an established partner in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, will help brands in the region to launch and scale business in a reliable, flexible and rapid fashion. They will have direct-to-consumer access through their own sales channels.
Shopify Plus offers a fast-to-market and cost-effective platform that allows brands to implement their D2C strategy with features just as competitive as more complex platforms. aCommerce can utilize Shopify Plus’ top-quality product set, scalability and support to satisfy the needs of the fast-growing Southeast Asian base of customers and merchants.
Leading end-to-end e-commerce platform and solutions provider aCommerce is hopeful that this new partnership will be beneficial for brands and online customers. To spur this along, aCommerce will blend extensive market knowledge, development expertise, and channel operations capabilities, with Shopify Plus’ automation, promotional tools, and exclusive API endpoints.
According to aCommerce’s Group Head of Business Development Tom Srivorakul, the D2C initiative will give brands more control over customer engagement, enable loyalty programs, maximize margins and data ownership.
Meanwhile, Shopify Plus (SEA) Head of Partnerships Neel Bhatt believes that aCommerce will help Indonesian, Thai, and Filipino brands make the most of Shopify Plus’ offerings to spur future growth.
In China, Shopify has forged ties with JD.com to help US-based merchants sell to JD’s customers in the country. Despite China being the largest e-commerce market in the world, it has yet been inaccessible to foreign businesses and enterprises.
The partnership of the two would open up China for merchants by allowing them entry into one of China’s top e-commerce marketplaces. Through JD’s cross-border e-commerce platform, JD Worldwide, merchants can list their products and link with 550 million active customers.
Whereas foreign brands must wait 12 months before they start selling in China, their streamlined channel, JD Marketplace, lets Shopify merchants in the US start within a duration shorter than three to four weeks.
This channel will also support merchants in the following ways:
- Hastened onboarding for merchants to sell quickly
- Logistics for end-to-end fulfillment from JD’s US warehouses directly to consumers in China
- Smart price conversion to local currency based on foreign exchange rates, typical category pricing, and VAT and consumption tax
- Intelligent translation of product names and descriptions
