As per latest reports, Bengaluru-based Tiger54 Global Store from Ishaya Enterprises Pvt. Ltd is a special platform that has turned it straightforward and trouble-free for people to shop for imported items on the web.
Arundhati Dutta, Founder at Tiger 54 stated, “We believe in a world without borders. Our mission is to connect people with products from around the world. We enable cross-border e-commerce by offering popular products/brands from the US to Indian shoppers.”
For the client, it’s as trouble-free as purchasing something around the corner since the global store addresses the global shipping.
The beta launched this service during August of the year 2016, and thus far they have made delivery of more than 8,000 orders crosswise the nation.
At the present time, they sell more than 10,000 popular items from the US via Amazon India and these items comprise lifestyle products, toys, apparel and décor items.
Dutta stated that they eye to append 45,000 new items in the coming time, and clients will shortly be capable of accessing these items directly by the use of their internet site additionally.
Technology plays a vital role in their absolute operations to enable as faultless an experience as possible for the client.
“Our primary focus has always been to help our customers receive their items from the US in the shortest time possible (seven working days), with live tracking and doorstep delivery. Our needs were very specific, and there is no readymade software for cross-border e-commerce. So we built everything from the ground up to run all our operations. This includes, among others, our own listing engine, inventory engine, supplier connect engine, order management engine, and customer connect engine. This proprietary technology is what sets us apart in terms of being able to scale up our operations,” she stated.
The startup is bootstrapped.
“NASSCOM 10,000 Startups has helped support us and connected us with a broad network of peers, mentors, venture capitalists and investors. It has been wonderful to be associated with such a fantastic programme,” added Arundhati.
She said that her proposals for the coming 6 month period comprise giving Indian shoppers a chance to shop for exclusive and pioneering global products from geographies like Japan, UK, EU and China, and widening the assortment of products they provide to more than 100,000.
