Sellfie a disruptive social selling marketplace for offline, small businesses
Chandigarh, July 11, 2016: The year of millennials, era of start-ups, age of technology and spirit of entrepreneurship – all phrases that describe our world today. With technology touching every aspect of our lives, no matter what our geographies are, innovation is on the rise to meet the new Indian’s changing aspirations.
The numbers are interesting - only 9% of start-up founders in India are women. Close to one million of them are mom-preneurs, home-preneurs, solopreneurs and stand-alone entrepreneurs. Even as the numbers grow, entrepreneurs continue to face various challenges including reaching out to the right audience, payment transactions, logistics, raising funds,business expansion, growth increment and stability.
Introducing Sellfie– a contextual commerce start-up, part of Citrus payments has come up with a global first –a social commerce platform for individuals to sell and collect payments directly on social networks, instant messengers and other online channels.The app, called Sellfie, allows anyone to take a picture of an item, price it, choose shipping options, and push a link to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram as well as other platforms like whatsapp to sell and collect. Citrus managing director Amrish Rau said that even though Citrus has made it easier for large businesses to collect payments seamlessly, it now wants to make it easier for the one million plus individual sellers and businesses on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to sell and collect payments.
About Citrus Pay: Sellfie
Sellfie is a contextual commerce startup that offers an end to end platform that facilitates selling and collecting payments through buy buttons, payment links and chat bots. Sellfie is part of Citrus Payments - India's fastest growing financial technology company that provides payment gateway and wallet services to over 10,000+ merchants and 21 million users processing close to 3 Billion USD in annual transactions.
Led by Amrish Rau and Jitendra Gupta, Citrus Pay is known for introducing industry-first payment solutions such as 1-click checkout, wallet for cabs, consumer analytics, native mobile app payments etc. Few of the credible merchants associated with Citrus Pay are Pune Municipal Corporation, Delhi Metro, Delhi Jal Board, PVR, INOX, BookMyShow, ShopClues, Jet Airways, Indigo, GoAir, TinyOwl, Faasos, Grofers, ZoomCar, Airtel, etc.