Trends in Online Shopping with Home Delivery in Bangladesh

Online shopping in Bangladesh has outstanding challenges in terms of payment and delivery because in numerous cases both are mingled with each other, as payment takes place once delivery is finished in form of home delivery of goods. Unfortunately, recent market is expanding in terms of goods available and home delivery can’t associate with payment in all cases.

Internet has changed the scenario of people’s lifestyle and way of business doing in the country. Despite the crinkling infrastructure for transport, electricity, and wired Internet network, online activities are flourishing at rapid pace and seem to be parallel to its affluent western counterparts.

Online Shopping Status in Bangladesh

Numerous online shops are working solely on the internet while majority of brick stores enjoy status of click-to-brick shop in modern Bangladeshi society where each home has one person living abroad. Mobiles have made internet ubiquitous. Therefore, people are free to place their selling needs on auction sites, whilst buyers have freedom to purchase products from anywhere and at their convenient time.

Online Shopping Behavior of Bangladeshis
However, the nature of Bangladeshis is a bit conservative and people generally don’t put trust on other especially in payment made on internet where receivers are unknown and lots of frauds or scams have been registered before. Moreover, traffic issues are acute in major cities of Bangladesh where a big chunk of online shoppers is residing.

Cash On Delivery Model
Therefore, expecting of buying and picking up the goods are rare thing in practice here. Bangladeshi folks love to deal in face-to-face mode so cash on delivery is highly popular mode of payment in cities as well as in rural areas in particular. There are two benefits of cash on delivery that buyers and sellers both are secure for the payment as well as right delivery at their respective ends while buyers can promptly inform vendors for any sort of fraud or swindle carried out by middle men or any damage occurred during shipment.
Unfortunately, all goods are not possible to ship through this payment method and collect cash, only food items ready to serve, groceries, furniture, and so on items of day-to-day use fall in cash on delivery payment mode. Valuable items are generally purchased either through personal visits or through secure payment gateways in advance payment mode only.

Promise of Secure Payment
Fortunately, Bangladesh payment gateway services like Payza Bangladesh have quite safe and secure online payment method through internet as well via credit/debit cards with bargaining service charges. Even secure e-transactions are possible in rural areas where connectivity and financial infrastructure are issues all times.

Payza Bangladesh has changed the scenario of online shopping in Bangladesh through various payment gateway related schemes unveiled in collaboration with major banks of Bangladesh and government itself. People now no longer need cash on delivery like long and risky routes of online shopping in Bangladesh thanks to Payza Bangladesh and banking network to introduce trust factors among the most privileged people of Asian region.

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NPS Leads Bangladesh towards Payment Gateway Solutions

With formation of National Payment Switch (NPS) before a year or two, banks and Payza Bangladesh have taken right steps towards the payment gateway solutions for export and outsourcing industries of Bangladesh.

Moreover, Payza Bangladesh has served online businesses looking for bespoken payment solutions in the Bangladeshi environment in beautiful and cost-effective ways.

Before a year or two, banks in Bangladesh had unveiled National Payment Switch (NPS) platform in order to bring debit and credit card payments in mainstream and merge other payment options in a single route. Thus, Bangladeshi users can topple their bank accounts, M-Commerce accounts, etc. through multiple ways.

Similarly, citizens in Bangladesh can withdraw same money using their debit or credit cards in ATM or can pay money online against the option of Internet transfer or say e-transfer for online shopping payment in Bangladesh as well as anywhere across the world with valid permissions/accounts.

Ultimate Benefits

Under NPS network, transaction cost would be negligible against the charges incurred by Visa, Amex, or Master card networks. This is the most wanted demand of relatively poor Bangladeshis since long. For them NPS are a blessing where they are secure, law abided, yet the cheapest at transaction fees, incurred by national and international rival services.

In the beginning only three banks, Dutch-Bangla, Pubali and Southeast Bank, were participated. However, as soon as Payza Bangladesh has declared its role in this network, other banks rushed and joined network to expand the reach. The ultimate benefits of NPS to government are easy access of funds, increase in tax revenue through transparency, and increased money flow in Bangladeshi economy.

Role of Payza Bangladesh

Payza is loaded with outstanding ‘payment gateway solution’ tools such as

•  Currency exchange
•  Fraud screening
•  Dispute resolutions
•  Global payouts
•  Disbursements
•  E-wallet
•  Virtual terminal
•  Recurring billing
•  eCheck processing 

At one hand, toppling the money through physical ways is quite easy, as you need to open online account and deposit money through bank desks in your nearby valid banks. You will have instant access of money without passing through daunting bank account opening procedure even in any unknown territory of Bangladesh.

At other hand, you can use these deposited money for any purpose of payment using M-Commerce, e-commerce, or S-commerce routes. In the same way, you can receive payment in foreign currency from foreign countries with the least charges offered by open market and in quick as well as secure ways.

Therefore, such excellent services of Payza Bangladesh have added fuel in the growth of outsourcing industry flourishing in Bangladesh and export house exploring unknown regions and market across the world.

Moreover, Payza has collaborated with the most of the leading banks of Bangladesh like Bank Asia to execute OPGSP payment and used Bangladesh Electronic Funds Transfer Network (BEFTN) facilities organized by the Bangladesh Bank- sectors in order to ease the lives of numerous freelancers and IT outsourcing companies to work with any client coming from any country of the world. As Payza has made possible to accept payments in any currency, as it offers the wide range of currency support and has presence in more than 190 countries of the planet Earth.

Growth Factors of Online Shopping in Bangladesh

Establishing and running a physical store is becoming daunting in Bangladesh. Therefore, many entrepreneurs including women think of online shops due to emerging trends and ease in shopping, shipping, and payment through secure online payment gateways. There are other several factors contributing in the rapid growth of online shopping stores in Bangladesh.

If we look at the statistics of population in Bangladesh compared to its natural and other economic resources, we can find greatly skewed graph. In other words, high density in terms of population is hindering its growth for small to big businesses. Among them retailing businesses are affected the most.

Adverse Factors for Brick Store Growth in Bangladesh

One thing for brick-and-mortar store is true that they have to spend a lot on establishment of physical store. Moreover, selection of right location like place in good locality, parking facilities, easy access of main road, movement of highly prospective consumers, etc. are some vital factors that determine the sustaining or growth of the business.

At other hand, customers who are residing a bit away from the brick store may avoid commuting in heavy traffic of Bangladeshi cities. Moving from one store to another in order to select the right product and do some bargaining in costs may prove costly at the end if they spend more on fuel.

Factors Favoring Online Shopping in Bangladesh 

As we have seen that brick stores have hard time to flourish more in Bangladesh, online shopping has more favor against those odds. With the advent of technologies, establishing online store is quite cheaper while higher proliferation of mobile devices has made Internet access easy and instant.

Therefore, Bangladeshi online shoppers prefer purchasing from e-retailers many durable and shippable products like electronic gadgets, home appliances, personal assets such as clothing, jewelry, and other accessories. Today we can witness innumerable other products on small to big online stores or web portals due to growth of the online shopping trends in Bangladesh.

The most favorable factor for the growth of online shopping is the evolution in payment system. For instance, easy payment through M-banking, Internet banking, credit or debit card payment, bKash, cash on delivery, and various schemes offered by reputed payment gateway operators like Payza Bangladesh have not only encouraged Bangladeshis to do online shopping, but also made e-payment secure and smooth.

Due to involvement of government, banking sector, and reputed payment gateway entrepreneurs like Payza have changed the scenario of online shopping in Bangladesh and encouraged many women entrepreneurs to jump into the highly rewarding field on e-commerce.

One more factor is easy acceptance and transaction of international currencies through Payza Bangladesh like payment gateways have encouraged IT service providers to grow and add fuel in the growth of economy of the Bangladesh. Moreover, they have made online shopping storefront development highly competitive hence cheaper and with quality.

Finally, high penetration rate of social media like Facebook have encouraged start-ups, small businesses, and many enterprises to explore the unexploited audience through creation of Facebook fan pages and using its social networking services to boost the online shopping in Bangladesh.

Technical Aspects of Online Shops in Bangladesh

Online shops designing and development technologies targeting smartphones and now wearable devices in advanced countries, but their penetrations in Bangladesh like developing countries are still limited and need revisits on existing technologies itself. Let’s go through the contemporary technologies used in the development of online shops in Bangladesh and their future.

Our expectations over contemporary modern Bangladesh e-commerce development may seem overwhelming. However, present awareness of people, interests of government, and efforts of entrepreneurs have changed entire scenario. No doubt, B2B have bright future due to exports with foreign countries of the rest of the world. In fact, B2G has the highest share, as government is the biggest buyers of the goods and services using online roots and people take benefits of it in return.

Technical Aspects of the growth of the online shops in Bangladesh

Now, we have clear picture of the target audiences and path of growth of e-commerce storefronts in Bangladesh. If we are going to explore the technical aspects involved in the e-commerce growth at present, we may find following things.

• Server Technologies is growing, but at slow pace, due to challenges of modern changes in hardware as well as software in this niche

• Connectivity is improving at good rate because of introduction of 2G/3G technologies for the mobile and other users. This improvement has reduced the burden over cable network and forced services providers to be competitive without declining quality further

• Designing and development technologies are at the fastest pace because outsourcing industry is observing phenomenal growth. Entrepreneurs have enough options for the selection of programming language, OS platforms, responsive designing, and money transaction facilities or payment methods/payment gateways

Programming and Databases Management

 Affordability is the main detrimental factor for the spread of e-commerce or Bangladeshi online shopping websites, open source is the ultimate solution for that and PHP is obvious one. Initially majority of online storefronts in Bangladesh have adapted primitive PHP open source software like OsCommerce, X-cart, Zen Cart, etc. At present, we can see introduction of BigCommerce, WooCommerce, VirtueMart, and mainly Magento changing the landscape of online stores for B2B, B2C, and B2G sectors alike.

At Present:

• Majority of online shops in BD are responsive and offering advanced features as well as functionality for perfect e-commerce experiences. 

• Advance search, quick and secure check out, reliable payment methods, personalization, and superb database management for small to big data is promising traits of the present e-commerce websites or web portals in the BD. 

• Adaptation and implementation of modern encryption technologies have made e-transactions secure and safe at all levels.

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At present B2C ecommerce is taking off and hitting new targets rapidly despite its slow growth in the past. This article will give you useful insights on the recent progress of IT software development technologies for the online shops in Bangladesh

Payza Bangladesh— Rapidly Moves the Country Forward

Payza is working with clear goals to make Bangladesh a part of global e-commerce without losing its distinguishing traits and unique identity. It has payment gateways and e-transaction solutions, which can work in highly customized ways to honor the needs and wishes of Bangladeshis and their businesses.

If you take the statistics of Internet access of Bangladeshis, you might find the same scenario that occurred in the west before a decade. There are low quality network with few areas covered, mostly urban areas. Users have biases towards the intentions of e-commerce entrepreneurs. Social, political, and economical adversities are hastening overall growth of country that is also influencing the e-commerce and allied sectors.

However, rapid proliferation of mobile devices and high quality 2G/3G connectivity are hopes that will shorten the timeline of progress. Fortunately, Payza has experienced such transitions and technology transformations in last decade among the western regions of the world. Payza Bangladesh knows the pains of those days and how that all happened. Therefore, it has decided to take present challenges of Bangladesh and smooth the transition process with advent of technologies.

Payza Bangladesh—The Most Appropriate Alternative

In due course, Payza Bangladesh has decided to execute the development strategies for the e-commerce where it will address the young generation first. As young generation is tech-savvy and scrappy to learn as well as adapt the incoming technologies/tools rapidly. Youths of new generation are fanatical to simulate the western experiences in their own milieu. Thus, Payza is giving excellent UX, accessibility, and usability for their e-commerce solutions in form of robust payment gateway solutions and e-wallet projects.

Expectations of Bangladeshis

Bangladeshi government and banks are proactive against the threats of economy and finance of the country. They never like frauds, inflation, and scams, those that pose security threats. Therefore, they didn’t allow international players like PayPal or crypto currencies to happen in localities without expected customizations. Payza Bangladesh has given highly acceptable, feasible, and innovative solutions for Bangladeshi ambiance.

Offerings of Payza Bangladesh

Payza Bangladesh has given superb data exchange facilities with desired security aspects. Its e-wallet like innovative concepts has made online payment service and e-transactions, within as well as across the countries of world, quite easy, fast, and reliable. It has provided many alternatives to topple the local currencies in e-wallet. It has eliminated many long authentication steps during e-commerce payments. These advancements are encouraging outsourcing talents to serve wide spectrum of clients across the globe. Exporters and importers have less stress of money exchanges and within range of local laws.

If you look at the e-commerce scenario of Bangladesh, you will find many established as well as start-up players serving wide range of products and services categories. There are many retailers with excellent delivery services on the web sphere of Bangladesh using the latest e-commerce technologies. Marketplace web portals have bulk of items to offer. In short, with secure and reliable payment services, online shopping is the next future thing in Bangladesh where entrepreneurs have guarantees of good ROI.