PayTabs Launches Social Commerce In Gulf
Paymes will serve as PayTab’s social commerce platform across the MENA region. Micro merchants and freelancers across UAE & KSA can set up free web stores and receive social media payments with Paymes. PayTabs announced that millions of freelancers, artisans, consultants, home-based business owners, personal trainers and micro vendors across the United Arab Emirates and […]
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Paymes will serve as PayTab’s social commerce platform across the MENA region.
Micro merchants and freelancers across UAE & KSA can set up free web stores and receive social media payments with Paymes.
PayTabs announced that millions of freelancers, artisans, consultants, home-based business owners, personal trainers and micro vendors across the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will now receive instant payments over PayTab’s social commerce platform, Paymes.
Paymes will serve as PayTab’s social commerce platform across the MENA region. Designers, tailors, yoga instructors, tutors, painters, musicians, landscape artists and others will have the opportunity to log into the Paymes platform, set up their digital storefront and turn their passionate business ideas into profit immediately. The entire process, including uploading freelancer documentation, would be facilitated by PayTabs and Paymes within minutes.
According to data from the World Economic Forum and the pandemic, the UAE saw a 197per cent increase in the recruitment of digital freelancers in 2020. This presents a massive opportunity to engage these freelancers to make secure payments over social media to benefit their profession.
Neelam Keswani, General Manager PayTabs UAE, said, “Paymes helps the merchant to build a cart for the customer and share it in the same mode they’re communicating with them, be it WhatsApp, Instagram, or other social media. It helps the merchant close the deal quicker than redirecting them to a website. During the pandemic, we witnessed a surge in micro-businesses and freelancers like artisans, photographers, fitness trainers and home bakers. Paymes is empowering these merchants to accept payments in minutes with minimum documents. As an entrepreneur, I am happy to be part of this impactful technology enabling the gig economy to grow and add value to the UAE economy.”
With the Paymes platform, GCC’s gig economy will benefit from being able to turn their talent and creativity into payments instantly by sharing a secure payment link over nine different social media platforms, including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram. They can also accept contactless payments by generating a static QR code – the safest way to get paid online or in-store. Payments also allow users to set up a mini ecommerce website – called ‘Paymes shop’. The web store can be customised and branded, saving additional costs for merchants who would otherwise pay to have their websites designed and developed via professional agencies.
Mohammed Alsaud, General Manager for PayTabs KSA, said, “Paymes is a wonderful platform for all merchants to benefit from increasing income, expanding and collecting payments from their customers quickly and effectively. This solution will move all merchants to the next stage of their ecommerce trade by helping them to reduce the cost compared to competitors in the local market.”
Paymes Co-Founder Hasan Jabbarov said, “In the ecommerce space, while entrepreneurs and businesses find it a challenge to navigate the high costs of setting up their websites, solutions such as Paymes offer micro businesses multiple advantages. By enabling freelancers and micro businesses to set up their digital shop window, online shoppers can add their favourite products from the website to their cart, complete their delivery details and check out securely.”
