Tokopedia and Bukalapak are the names of e-commerce sites that are already very large in Indonesia. There are so many people who transact here, maybe you too are one of them. Each of course has advantages and disadvantages
Nowadays, shopping has become much easier. We no longer need to walk to the market or supermarket. We just sit in front of the laptop, connect to the internet, then we can shop anything through buying and selling sites on line. There are many buying and selling sites on line Currently, for example, Tokopedia, Lazada, Bukalapak, Blibli, etc. We just have to determine what items we will buy then we look for sites that provide promos at attractive prices. Transactions are also easier with internet banking then you just have to wait for the goods you buy to be delivered using a courier.
Seeing that there are so many buying and selling sites on line at this time of course we have to be good at choosing which site we will use as our intermediary with the seller. Not only considerations about the price offered, but also considerations about transaction security.
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Tokopedia vs Bukalapak
Tokopedia and Bukalapak are the names of the sites e-commerce which is already very large in Indonesia. There are so many people who transact here, maybe you too are one of them. Each of course has advantages and disadvantages.
So, so that you can decide which site to shop on, for this reason, in the following, we will see a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages between the Tokopedia and Bukalapak buying and selling sites.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Tokopedia & Bukalapak
- Items for sale
Tokopedia and Bukalapak are actually two types e-commerce the same one. Both become "digital malls" where anyone can open a kiosk there. The variety of goods and products offered also varies. As far as the author's experience exploring these two sites, Tokopedia offers more items that we often find in the market. For example, electronic goods and household appliances. While Bukalapak offers many unique items such as agate and even bicycle parts and the sellers are mostly SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises).
- Payment method
As doer e-commerce, both of which must of course provide a complete payment method for various bank account users. At first second e-commerce it does not support credit card payments. But along with the increase in the number of transactions, both of them then added credit card services to the payment method. Tokopedia serves payments with independent clickpay, e-cash Mandiri, Klikpay BCA, manual bank transfers, and Tokopedia balances. Meanwhile, Bukalapak accepts payments using independent clickpay, Klikpay BCA, Cimbclicks Niaga, manual bank transfers, and open wallets (Balance of Bukalapak).
- Transaction Security
At first Bukalapak was superior because of the indicator the reputation of a trusted seller, namely by the number of feedback and the percentage of successful transactions. But then Tokopedia also has a marker whether the seller is trusted or not, namely by rating 5 stars on each seller. 1 star means less reliable, while 5 stars means very trusted. All these indicators are, of course, given by the buyers after their transaction is successful.
- Transaction Notification
Notifications or notifications during transactions are certainly important things to see whether the purchase process that we are doing is successful or not. The two perpetrators e-commerce it has almost the same notification. Every transaction process is informed via email.
- Website View
Tokopedia and Bukalapak also have a similar navigation. The difference is, Tokopedia with a dominant green color places the choice of object categories on the middle part after banners. While the choice of categories in Bukalapak is placed on top. So you can immediately choose whatever category you are looking for.
- Reputation
Tokopedia was born before Bukalapak. But that doesn't mean that Tokopedia will be much better than Bukalapak. Each of them certainly has a certain reputation in the eyes of its users. Indeed, this reputation does not come entirely from Tokopedia and Bukalapak, but from the sellers. However, both parties must also be able to sort out which sellers are appropriate to sell at platform each. Both Tokopedia and Bukalapak have done a lot of selection and verification of seller before joining.
This comparison is not to see who is superior, but only to provide a reference for you so that you can choose whether to shop at Tokopedia or Bukalapak according to your needs. Hope it helps :D
