In a new development that would enable all the members of the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB) to sell their products across a greater customer base, both locally and globally, e-commerce platform Ek-Shop (developed by the Aspire to Innovate-a2i project of the ICT Division) has now thrown open limitless opportunities for the e-commerce players in the country.
Ek-Shop, which currently operates through 10,000 outlets across Bangladesh, is an aggregated platform, meaning all major e-commerce entities are connected via Ek-Shop using application programming interface (API), which provides entrepreneurs as well as consumers with a single-window trading experience.
Interacting with the media, head of e-commerce at a2i, Rezwanul Haque Jami said that as part of a2i’s initiatives to spread e-commerce to the mass people and highlight rural entrepreneurs and sell their products through the platform, they have been working on this concept for the last 3 years and went on to add that apart from Bangladesh, there are Ek-Shop centres in Singapore and Malaysia for the expatriates living there while plans are afoot to launch the same in Turkey, Columbia, Uganda, Jordan and South Sudan.
As per reports, currently there are 5,297 union digital centres (UDCs) across Bangladesh, of which 3,347 are connected with Ek-Shop and a buyer or a seller of a product can place orders through the UDC representative.
Further, to sell a product, one has to place the product’s specifications to the UDC representative for uploading on Ek-Shop, which will show it in all e-commerce pages linked with Ek-Shop and interested customers can go through the products and place their orders accordingly.
