What is Tokopedia? Tokopedia Review

Tokopedia is the largest e-commerce platform in Indonesia and the most visited Indonesian website. Founded in 2009, Tokopedia, headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, is a comprehensive C2C platform.

About Tokopedia

At present, it has accumulated financing of US$247 million and is one of the most successful Internet companies in Indonesia. It currently has about 79.02 million unique visitors per month and 940 million page views per month.

As of December 2018, Tokopedia has 6.04 million fans on Facebook and 182,000 fans on Twitter.

Store opening instructions

1. Opening a store on the Tokopedia platform is free and the process is very simple. You only need to register an account to open and organize your own store according to the prompts on the page, without any commission.

2. Tokopedia only allows each seller to sell up to 50 categories of goods. If the seller wants to sell more goods, he or she must pay to join the "Gold Seller" store program.

3. Tokopedia's "Gold Seller" program charges 100,000 Indonesian rupiah (about US$8.5) per month.

Opening a store and uploading products

1. Click here to enter the seller registration page and click the open store button in the upper right corner. Sellers who cannot understand Indonesian can translate the website language into English or Chinese:

Then fill in your name, mobile phone number, email address and set a login password. Users can also log in with Facebook, Google and Yahoo accounts.

2. After confirming that you have logged in to the account you registered in the first step, click the Open Store button in the upper left or upper right corner of the page:

3. Improve store data and information, such as:

Set the domain name www.tokopedia.com/domaintokokamu;

·Complete store information (store name, store slogan, store description);

Shipping options settings;

Payment section settings;

Upload store pictures.

Then click Open Shop again.

4. After registering the store, you need to upload products. Click the store logo in the upper right corner of the page or select "add product" under the "My Store" menu on the left side of the page:

5. Fill in complete and correct product information. The main contents are:

Product name;

·Product Description;

Product weight;

Product price;

Product images.

After that, click “save” or click “save & add new” to continue adding products.

Development History

- In 2009, Tokopedia was launched.

-In 2013, the number of products sold on Tokopedia was approximately 24 million.

-As of April 2015, Tokopedia.com claims to have over 4.9 million active product listings, facilitating sales of over 5 million products per month.

-As of August 2016, Tokopedia has 1 million sellers, with monthly sales exceeding 16.5 million and monthly sales reaching 1 trillion rupiah.

Financing

-In 2009, Tokopedia received initial seed funding from PT Indonusa Dwitama.

-In October 2014, Tokopedia became the first technology company in Southeast Asia to receive an investment of US$100 million (approximately Rp. 120 million) from Sequoia Capital and SoftBank Internet and Media Inc (SIMI).

- In April 2016, Tokopedia raised another $147 million in its latest round of financial review.

-In August 2017, Tokopedia, which has grown into Indonesia's largest e-commerce platform, received a new round of financing of US$1.1 billion led by Alibaba.

Ambassador

On November 12, 2014, Tokopedia.com officially announced Indonesian sexy actress Chelsea Islan as its brand ambassador.