CCAvenue

Avenues India, the country's leading eCommerce solutions provider was recently honoured with an accolade at Cisco & CNBC-TV18's Digitizing India Awards, held at The Taj Palace in New Delhi, India. Avenues bagged the award for its flagship brand CCAvenue, under the 'Digital Innovations in the SMB sector' category for CCAvenue S.N.I.P., a social media payment system.

Now in its third year, the Cisco Digitizing India Awards aims at recognizing organizations that are using technology in the most inclusive way to serve customers and drive digital transformation. The awards focus on celebrating the strides that an organization takes in their journey of digital transformation, making their firms future ready. This year, the awards program had 9 categories and was judged by an eminent panel of jury members including industry experts, business accelerators and entrepreneurs.

CCAvenue earned recognition for its disruptive social commerce facility, CCAvenue S.N.I.P. The innovative solution makes it possible for merchants to monetize their social media presence, and set up their online business in less than a minute, at zero cost. Businesses can use the platform to sell products and collect payments instantly through a payment link on their social media pages, and also via a QR code for offline transactions. Since its launch, CCAvenue S.N.I.P. has resulted in a substantial increase in the revenue of CCAvenue merchants and also multiplied their customer base. The service processed payments close to Rs. 1,000 crore in the FY '15-'16 and is availed by more than 15,000 merchants presently.

The award was presented by Mr. M Venkaiah Naidu, Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Speaking on the occasion after receiving the award, Mr. Vishwas Patel, CEO, Avenues Group commented "India has the world's largest youth population, with 41% people below the age of 20. Most of them are active on social media. Although these sites are good at creating product awareness, they are inadequate at converting eyeballs into sales. So, we created CCAvenue S.N.I.P. Through this service, SMBs, micro-entrepreneurs, work-from-home professionals are now selling products and collecting payments through Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and so on. The solution is in line with the government's Digital India campaign and supports budding entrepreneurs in moving their businesses to the digital space. We want to thank the jury and organizers at Digitizing India Awards for this recognition. The award will further inspire CCAvenue in developing the best-in-class solutions backed by state-of-art technology to increase the earning potential of its merchants."

Being India's leading payment gateway, CCAvenue has consistently delivered proprietary PG solutions that redefine user experience and result in an exponential growth of its merchants' business. The Digitizing India Award is a testament to this commitment and recognizes CCAvenue's pioneering contribution in the field of eCommerce and digital payments. In addition to this award, CCAvenue has won several other accolades in the past including the 'Best Digital Payment Facilitator' at IAMAI's 6th India Digital Awards, 'Best eCommerce Payment Innovation' at the Indian eRetail Awards, 2016, 'Best Digital Payment Facilitator - 2015' at The eTales award ceremony, and more.


About Avenues FZ - LLC
Since its inception in 2001, Avenues pioneered the online payments landscape in India, with CCAvenue, its flagship brand, becoming South Asia's largest payment gateway, offering real-time, multi-currency online payment processing services for over 1 lakh businesses across the major industry verticals. CCAvenue has now ventured into a business partnership with Mashreq Bank to widen its footprint by offering advanced payment services to web merchants based in the UAE so as to enable them to accept online payments securely and conveniently. Its cutting-edge platform offers easier integrations, better customizations as well as quicker on-boarding for businesses and proprietorships. For larger merchants, CCAvenue provides unparalleled product differentiation with features such as Multiple Currency Processing, CCAvenue S.N.I.P. (Social Network In-stream Payments), Advanced Marketing Tools, Easier Checkouts, Automated Electronic Invoicing, etc. Currently, CCAvenue offers its merchant partners a wide range of payment options, including all the major MasterCard / Visa Credit Cards, Debit Cards, American Express and Net banking facilities. For more information, visit www.ccavenue.ae.