AsiaPay speaks at 2nd Philippine eBusiness and Social
Networking Conference in Grand Ballroom,
Hotel Intercontinental Makati City
last April 23 & 24, 2009
Andrian Lee - General Manager of Asiapay Philippines & Emerging Markets, speak about Sociable Payments
Posted by: Mau San Andres
Mastering the Essentials of eCommerce and Online Sales
Asiapay’s second eCommerista event was again a success. Thanks to the following merchants and prospects:
PHILIPPINE BIBLE SOCIETY - Jefferson Castro
ROBINSONS CONVENIENCE STORS (MINISTOP) - Joanne Rico
CENTER FOR CULINARY ARTS - JB Bolanos, Agnes Manalaysay and Cherrie Bautista
GUASO PHILS., INC. - Ingrid Penas
GALILEO ENRICHMENT LEARNING PROGGRAM, INC. - Rowena Matt
PHILIPPINES HOTEL RESERVATIONS SERVICE - Jake Lazado and Joanna Marie Obsiana
BDO - Nestea Pascua
Here are the some pictures:
Posted By: Doreen Malbas
Recent studies show that 1 out of 5 hotel bookings are now online & 53% of all internet bookings will be directly with hotel-owned websites. While the rest of the hotel world has already tuned in to ecommerce, Philippine hotels/resorts are slowly catching up.
As more travelers feel more secure and comfortable doing it the ecommerce way, local hotels need to shape up in order to keep up with this major development.
With Xpressbooking Simple and Secure, hotels/resorts can now confirm bookings and process credit card payments instantly online.
Posted by: Winfred Elizalde
Filipinos are the world’s leading Internet consumers of social networking, video watching, photo sharing and blog reading. Can they be the world’s leading online shoppers?
Finaly, the World’s #1 Online Store Creator arrives in the Philippines via eMalling. eMalling is based on OSCommerce, which runs 193,000 stores, worldwide. 1 out 5 online stores runs on OSCommerce.
According to InternetWorldStats, Filipino internet users raised to over 14,000,000 population with 600% penetration rate and amazingly on the top 10 countries in Asia, eCommerce in the Philippines is expected to boom in the next two few years. Right now, we see so many products being sold in eBay.ph and to the famous social-commercial networking site, Multiply.com.
Asiapay introduces it’s new service called eMalling that enables the Filipinos to have shopping experience taken to a next level. With this online store system, it minimizes the fear of Filipinos worrying about their cards being used by others. eMalling has its cool feature called pre-authentication - a tool and an added process that makes it harder for fraudsters to purchase using stolen credit cards. eMalling also allows the consumers to pay on a recurring mode, which, according to the Credit Card Association of the Philippines, 80% of the credit cards in the Philippines are on stretch payments. That said, eMalling becomes a prefect tool for companies who wants to target the Filipino market worldwide.
Posted By: Doreen Malbas
AsiaPay Philippines participated in in the last Social Networking and eBusiness Conference 2008 as one of the exhibitors at the Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City.
We showcased PesoPay and our latest Web 2.0 widget AddMeApp, which has the tools to “AddMe App” your company, shopping page, or hotel booking to any Web 2.0 social networking website instantly. We have given away free cold mochaccinos to those who visited our booth, exchanged our business cards, presented a 5-minute PesoPay intro and added AddMe App (with links to PesoPay, HRMS) into their personal friendster, multiply, facebook profile.
Andrian Lee was also one of the speakers in the conference who talked about eCommerce in the social networking environment.
Here are some of the photos from the Social Network Philippines site:
Inquirer, the leading media website & newspaper has already posted its 5 1/2 min video coverage of the XpressBooking launch in its website
Click Here to view the video clip
AsiaPay Philippines would like thank all the hotels, resorts and travel agencies who attended our event, eCommerista night 4.0: Social networking night and launching of XpressBooking “ePayment & eBooking Platform.” The success of the event was made possible through the efforts of all the attendees who confirmed and were enlightened on the current situation of Online Booking.
The goal of AsiaPay Phils. is to introduce XpressBooking, the most affordable eBooking & ePayment platform for the travel and entertainment industry. Travel merchants have the option to use the eBooking platform or just the ePayment platform or combine the two solutions.
We hope that this would be the starting point of building a close business relationship with the travel and entertaintment industry.
We would like to recognize all the companies (hotel and travel agencies) who attended our event:
—-RESORTS—-
*357- Boracay
*Club Paradise (Palawan)
*El Rio Y Mar Resort (PALAWAN)
*Alegre Beach Resort (CEBU)
*One MGM Resorts Village (Boracay)
*Waling Waling Resort (Boracay)
*Sitio Waling Waling (Boracay)
*Fat Jimmy’s Resort Boracay
*Royal Taal Inn
*Tagaytay Country Club
*Eskaya Beach Resort and Spa
*Diniwide Beach Resort (BORACAY)
—-HOTELS—-
*Manila Pavilion Hotel & Casino
*Waterfront Phils. Inc.
*Microtel Inns & Suites (Pilipinas), Inc.
*Marco Polo Hotels
*Boracay Regency
*Oxford Suites
*Amigo Terrace Hotel
*Boracay Mandarin Island Hotel
*The Fraser Place
*The Pan Pacific Hotel
—-TRAVEL AGENCIES—-
*Blue Horizon Travel and Tours
*Sharp Travel and Tours
*Centerpoint Travel Agency
*Pan Pacific Travel Corp.
*Griffin Sierra Travel
*Islands Travel and Tours
*Happy Travel & Tours Corporation
*Lakbay.net
*Action Holiday Tours
—-GDS—-
*AMADEUS
—-INTERNET MEDIA—-
*INQUIRER.Net
*DIGITAL WEB GROUP, INC.
—-AIRLINE—-
*Thai Airways Philippines
Hope to see you again on our next Ecommerista night!
Link for the XpressBooking power point presentation : http://www.slideshare.net/automatemyreg/xpressbooking
Demo site : www.automatemybooking.com/hotel
Ecommerista website: www.ecommerista.com
Posted by Brian Sagabaen
Here’s some blog love from Standard Web Standards:
“…eCommerista is building up a good rep as a regular event where bloggers, techies and IT industry folks can get together. So, keep tabs on the Facebook and email invites from AsiaPay for the next eCommerista Night…”
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Aileen Apolo also shares about her experience being a panelist in eCommerista night 3.0:
“I had the chance to join three Filipino technopreneurs last night at the E-Commerista 3.0 through Andrian Lee’s invitation - Gabby Dizon, Jonas Diego and Gio Bacareza - and it’s really inspiring to see how they’ve managed to turn their interests into successful businesses and here are just some thoughts that I wanted to share…”
Posted by Paul “The Pageman” Pajo
The PICS (Philippine Internet Commerce Society) recently had their networking night and they had Asia Pay’s very own GM, Andrian Lee give a brief state-of-ecommerce address. Here’s an excerpt from the blog, seriousprattle.com:
“Andrian Lee, General Manager of Asia Pay, gave a brief situationer of the internet and eCommerce industry in the country.
He enthusiastically related the promising growth of online transactions all over the region and specially in the Philippines. From travel as experienced by the phenomenal upsurge in sales of Cebu Pacific due to its online ticket sales besides affordable pricing to the large number of filipinos lording it over various social networking sites such as Friendster, Multiply, and Imeem. He compared the Philippine members of these online networking sites to those in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the US. He mentioned that majority of the members in the three sites are Filipinos.
here’s the presentation:
posted by: Paul The Pageman Pajo
It’s nice to look back to the year that was with the key milestones in AsiaPay Philippines. Again, we thank all who made this year a great one:
1 & 2. PesoPay and eBigay launch.
March 2007. We kicked off PesoPay, the first full eCommerce and ePayment service with Banco de Oro, through the Reconnect event (in partnership between Venture for Fund Raising, MRM Worldwide, AsiaPay and BDO, formerly ECN). 200 non-profits attended to see the power of online giving thru Reconnect portal and PesoPay. As we’ve launched PesoPay, we also introduced these concepts showing PesoPay’s killer apps simulate how Filipinos love to pay: eHulugan (advanced prepayment), eGives (installment payment), eTingi (minimized payment), and eBigay (online donations).
May 2007. We initiated the eBiz is eAsy campaign to show everyone that setting up eCommerce initiatives is not complicated, expensive, risky at all. And so eBiz is eAsy web blog was born: AsiaPay PH’s viral e-marketing tool and online advocacy campaign with eBiz tips, PesoPay features and eSuccess stories, news, and guides for merchant’s eCommerce venture.
June to July 2007. We then moved forward to the 24 to 1 campaign: “Accelerate your eBusiness launch from 24 weeks to 1 week” where we invited our merchants to our office every Tuesday mornings and conduct a free coaching weekly seminar to help new merchants in planning, launching, and executing their eBusiness plans.
August 2007. We introduced the PesoPay / eBigay express activation, a value add service comprising the basic setup and activation of the following in merchant’s website: shopping page, customer profile registration, check out page integrated to PesoPay payment page when we turnover the merchant account. Merchants now can have eBiz agad! eSales agad! Watch out for more enchanced eCommerce OSCommerce platforms to be developed and launched in 2008.
3. eCommerista launch.
November 2007. eCommerce is now brewing up in the Philippines so we spearheaded Merchant Community Building through Contact Networking Events called eCommerista nights. It’s a monthly gathering of entrepreneurs and professionals that allows them to network, learn and be inspired by each other, hosted by AsiaPay Philippines in Mag:net Cafe BHS. We’ve already had 1.0 and 2.0 eCommerista nights in 2007 and still more to come in 2008.
4. ShopPay launch.
December 2007. We would love to help our merchants bring their shopping pages to the Friendster/Multiply generation. Hence, ShopPaybeta is here! May you enjoy the gift of ShopPay and have a viral marketing new year!
We are excited to have established AsiaPay in the Philippines this year and we’re looking forward to expanding and making eCommerce fly here and beyond next year!
Posted by Kristine “Libby” Malibiran
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