eBay India partners with Oxigen Services for Offline Assisted Ecommerce

by Shrutee K/DNS

New Delhi, 22 November, 2016. India’s largest payment solution provider Oxigen Services today announced its partnership with eBay India, a leading online marketplace to offer access of its pan India network of over 200,000 retail touch points and expand its reach. This association will help Oxigen Services customers access over 100 million product listings on www.ebay.in. Under this association, Oxigen brings a unique O2O solution (Online to Offline) which integrates customer on boarding for eBay India with Mobile Wallet Payments solution.

In a differentiating experience, now a customer can walk into an Oxigen enabled outlet spread across Metro, Tier I, II and III cities besides over 25000 rural locations, view the variety of products listed on ebay.in through a PC or a smartphone and place an order. The big advantage is that a cash paying customer, who does not have a credit card or debit card, and wants to benefit from an online purchase, can now have access to entire range products of eBay India.

Commenting on this tie-up, Mr. Latif Nathani, VP & MD, eBay India said “As the country is progressing towards digitized transactions, non-digital customers increasingly need the assurance of instant and secure payment routes. Our partnership with Oxigen will not only help us penetrate deeper into the tier 2 and tier 3 markets, it will also offer consumers an opportunity to shop from a wide range of products and deals available on eBay India through an assisted shopping mechanism. We are keen to bring to our consumers the convenience and ease of shopping through trusted and reliable Oxigen retailers."

 Currently eBay India (www.ebay.in) is one of India’s largest online marketplace where merchants of all sizes list & sell their products to over 5.6 million consumers from over 5000 cities, towns & villages in India. It has over 70,000 merchants from a small time entrepreneur to a large format store sells products on eBay India domestically and to over 164 million customers across the globe. At any given point, there are over 100 million products listed on eBay India across Technology, Lifestyle, Media and Collectibles categories

 Excited about this Partnership, Mr. Pramod Saxena, Chairman and Managing Director, Oxigen Services India Pvt. Limited, remarked, “Retail Assist e-commerce is the true solution for an e-commerce platform as multiple e-commerce companies survive on barely 50-75 million customer base which is unviable. The answer lies in expanding the reach for cash paying customers in rural locations. While presently e-commerce thrives on Cash on delivery, the Oxigen model is Cash before delivery. The current demonetization environment is a boon for this partnership as Oxigen has the ability to help in depositing cash in old currency notes using Aadhaar identity through its Micro ATMs. All this augers well for our partnership."

It is expected that, in the next 12 months, over 25,000 Oxigen stores will be enabled for an eBay shopping experience. The big advantage to the Retailer is that it need not carry any stock and as a result the operation becomes very profitable.

With the current market scenario, of demonetization, and with the trend of online marketplace suspending Cash on Delivery, or a customer not having the exact currency to pay for the goods at his doorstep, this will become another opportunity, to offer assisted online shopping to a customers.

About Oxigen Services: Oxigen Services India Pvt. Ltd., powered by 12 years of service excellence in the digital business of micro payments of services and remittances in a ‘real time’ environment is India's Largest Payments Solutions Provider.  Its business involves service aggregation and distribution, utilizing mobile, PoS and web for online payment processing and money transfer services. It is built to service the nation's Telecom/DTH Operators, multiple Services Providers and Banks, pan India.

Oxigen has a retail footprint of 2, 00,000 outlets and has processed over 2 billion transactions till date with a current transaction volume rate of 600 million transactions per annum. It has a large customer base of over 150 million. A large bouquet of services is integrated into a single transaction & payment processing platform, including Prepaid, Postpaid & Subscription based services like Mobile Money Transfer, Recharges, Bill Payments, Ticketing and Subscriptions for all leading service providers across a wide spectrum of industries, like, Telecom, Direct‐to‐home TV, Internet Broadband, Travel (Railways/Airlines/Bus), Cinema/Movie Tickets, Utility Bill Payments, Gaming, Music & Movie downloads & more.

Oxigen Wallet is India’s first Non-Bank Mobile Wallet app, approved by RBI, which allows you to send and receive money through popular social channels like Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, SMS and Email.  A customer can instantly send money to any mobile number or bank account in India, even if the recipient is not a registered Oxigen Wallet user.

Oxigen Wallet services include money transfer/ Mobile/DTH/Data Recharges, Postpaid, Utility bill payments and Gift Cards for over 60+ brands. Customers also earn loyalty points that can be redeemed as cash into the wallet or as PayBack points.

Oxigen Wallet, with 25 Million users, is a product of Oxigen Services Pvt. Ltd, India’s largest payment service provider.  Accepted at over 9000 merchant locations and 10000 online sites like Bookmyshow, ebay India, PVR, OYO Rooms, Jabong, and more, Oxigen Wallet offers a safe, secure and convenient payment solution via the mobile.

Loading money into Oxigen wallet app is easy; you can use credit cards, debit cards or  pay cash over the counter through any of Oxigen’s 2,00,000  retailer / partners across the country.

App available on Android Play store, iOS App Store and Windows Store or visit www.oxigen.com.

 About eBay India: eBay India (www.ebay.in) is a leading online marketplace and shopping destination in India where thousands of entrepreneurs list over 10 crore products across Electronics, Lifestyle, Collectibles and Media categories. eBay India is a 100% subsidiary of eBay Inc.