Buildabazaar.com, Infibeam's cloud based e-commerce platform, has by far the
largest number of stores set up on an e-commerce platform in India so far. Its a
Do-it-yourself e-commerce platform for merchants and sellers. It provides the
necessary e-commerce technology and data infrastructure to create a store within
minutes.
Buildabazaar is a Do-it-yourself e-commerce platform for merchants and sellers.
It provides the necessary e-commerce technology and data infrastructure to
create an enterprise level online store within minutes. The platform provides
tools, called as 'widgets', to customize the appearance of the store and an
administration panel for managing inventory, orders and shipments. Buildabazaar
also provides integrated CCAvenue payment gateway and tie up with logistics
providers. Buildabazaar has also extended its ecommerce platform for travel
agents to build travel booking sites for flights, hotels, buses and car
rentals.
Buildabazaar was launched in May 2011 and has over 20,000 merchants using it to
power their online stores. Major companies like Apple, Airtel, Adlabs Imagica,
Bombay Dyeing, Crossword, Hidesign, Prestige, The MobileStore, Vijay Sales and
VIP have created online stores using Buildabazaar's platform. A survey done by
MySmartPrice in May 2012 revealed that 45 of the top 343 e-commerce stores are
built using Buildabazaar.
The Buildabazaar initiative was conceptualized with a vision to create a
customer oriented retail technology platform. It was created by a group of
ex-Amazon employees with expertise in e-commerce and technology. Headquartered
in Ahmedabad, Infibeam's BuildaBazaar platform, has 350 employees based out of
offices in Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. The leadership team consists of
MIT, IIM and IIT graduates amongst others with more than 100 years of combined
experience in Retail and eCommerce.