6 Online Shopping Tips During Ramadhan

Ramadan has just begun, but a number of e-commerce services have offered many attractive promotions for online shopping lovers

Even so, people need to be wise and careful to get the goods with the best price.

Well, here are some online shopping tips during Ramadan from Shopback Indonesia.

1. Stores of Authorized Stores

One of the things that is feared when shopping online is fraud. For that, online shopper must be careful, in this case of course need accuracy to choose a store in the marketplace platform.

Do not be afraid because the marketplace platform usually gives marks or symbols which stores are already authorized (trusted) and which have not.

2. View Ratings and Product Reviews Columns

For those of you who are still hesitant when online stores get autorization marks, you can take time to read product reviews from previous customers.

Well, from the reviews you can estimate the quality of the goods.

3. Enable Push Notification of Online Shopping App

Marketplace usually give newsletter to email, but some people do not like if their inbox is full of newsletter from marketplace that sometimes do not match with interest.

For cases like this, there is no harm in activating push notification of online shopping application you have.

Push notification can serve as a reminder, so you do not miss if there is a flashsale promo during Ramadan from the e-commerce platform.

4. Wisely As Needed

Promo and discount are indeed present to lure consumers to always shop on an e-commerce platform.

However, according to data from Accenture, nearly three quarters of online shoppers in Indonesia claim that cheap product prices and discounts actually trigger impulsive behavior in online shopping.

Especially during Ramadan like this, many online shopping platforms give discounts. Consumers should not be easily lulled with promos and discounts up to 90 percent of this.

Consumers need to carefully choose which platform gives the best price by comparing the price of the products on each platform, for example with the Shopback app.

Country Head of Shopback Indonesia Indra Yonathan said, Shopback directs users about the best promo in every e-commerce partner.

"We are making money savings and saving money online, with cashbacks, e-commerce aggregators like Shopback help people find exciting promotions and discounts from e-commerce platforms that fit their needs," he said.

5. Take advantage of Jam Ngabuburit and Sahur

Shopback studies mention, many Indonesian people visit to e-commerce at 16.00 -17.00. This hour is a time where people wait for breaking the fast.

At this time also, many e-commerce actors give promos.

Likewise with the time dawn, which used e-commerce to offer promos.

For that, if you want to get a promotion in e-commerce, you can take advantage of either waiting hours to break (ngabuburit) or at dawn.

6. Choose the Right Payment Method

To simplify consumer transactions, e-commerce platform usually provides various payment method options, for example through cooperation with banking to credit card installment program.

There are also e-commerce actors who offer mortgage payments without a credit card.

Well, whatever payment method you choose, be sure to pay attention to the online shopping platform that gives discounts in accordance with the card owned.

If you are still unsure of bank card security, you can choose on-site payment method or cash on delivery (COD).

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