Future Scenario of E-Commerce: There Are Seven Challenges Related To Ecommerce
India's e-commerce industry is growing rapidly, doubling every year, with e-travel accounting for 70% of total e-commerce. Household incomes are expected to reach $6,790 by 2020. While the industry is growing due to increased internet penetration and a favorable market ecosystem, it faces challenges including lack of customer awareness and online transaction options, limited payment gateways, and over-reliance on cash-on-delivery which accounts for 60-70% of payments due to lack of credit/debit cards and security concerns.
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Future Scenario of E-Commerce: There Are Seven Challenges Related To Ecommerce
India's e-commerce industry is growing rapidly, doubling every year, with e-travel accounting for 70% of total e-commerce. Household incomes are expected to reach $6,790 by 2020. While the industry is growing due to increased internet penetration and a favorable market ecosystem, it faces challenges including lack of customer awareness and online transaction options, limited payment gateways, and over-reliance on cash-on-delivery which accounts for 60-70% of payments due to lack of credit/debit cards and security concerns.
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Future Scenario of e-commerce
India has greater prospect of market potential with E-Commerce
industry growth doubling every year. The sector has grown in E-Travel which accounts of 70% of total commerce. The statistics indicate that household income is expected to reach $6790 in 2020. Although India’s e-commerce is growing, there are certain challenges which the industry needs to overcome. E-commerce in India is growing not just because the internet penetration is increasing but also due to the favorable ecosystem developed by the market.
There are seven challenges related to ecommerce:-
1. Poor Knowledge and Awareness: Majority of urban population do
not have adequate knowledge on online business and its functionalities. Very few are aware of the online fraud and ignorance still exists. Further most of Indian rural population are unaware of internet and it uses. A reliable survey reveals that 50% of Indian online users are unaware of the online security solutions. 2. Online Transaction: Majority of Indian customers do not possess plastic money, credit card, debit card and net banking system, which is one of the prime reasons in curtailing the e-commerce growth. Lately, however, some of the nationalized banks have started to issue debit cards to all its account holders. This is undoubtedly a positive sign for Indian online entrepreneurs as electronic payments are convenient and less costly, unlike manual cash collection which is laborious, risky and expensive. 3. Payment Gateways: When it comes to running an online business the crucial part is how the customer will pay. An e-commerce payment gateway is a service that authorizes credit card, debit card or online banking payments and processes them securely with a user’s merchant account for Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT). The world is moving from cash to digital money and thus there is a need of payment gateway for sustainable future e-commerce. The Indian ecommerce sector is heavily dependent on Cash on Delivery (CoD) mode of payment, almost 60-70%, as it is the most preferred choice for Indian consumers due to lack of trust in online transactions, limited adoption of credit/ debit cards, and security concerns among others. 4. Cash on Delivery: Cash on Delivery (COD) has been touted as the innovation to counter the low credit card penetration and payment security issues on the internet. COD is a substantial proportion of the sales today contributing to anywhere between 11% (for Pepperfry) to 60% in most of the cases.
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