The future of social commerce is HERE.

It’s not surprising when Facebook, the social networking giant announced early this year that it has 16million active Nigerian users on its platform, 6.3 per cent up from June 30, 2015. Therefore for any business organization, Facebook still ranks one of the best platforms to reach out to prospective customers compared to other social networking platform. According to the Socialbakers Social Media statistics for top 20 brands in Nigerian in May, 2016, Finance Industry ranks first with 1,1263,490 fans, Telcom and E-commerce follows with 8,319, 952 and 6,369, 256 fans respectively while the Beauty industry coming a distant third with 5 633 974 fans . Ordinarily one would have expected the beauty industry to take the lead but the statistics clearly shows that Nigerians are not wasting time but to actually do business, this clearly accounts for the unprecedented rise in the numbers of E-commerce stores springing up here and there online after the success of the pioneers like Konga and Jumia.

With the rise of these E-commerce stores, payment structures remain a big problem for both online merchants and customers alike. Another issue, is that of trust on the part of the merchant, customers find it hard to pay for goods they have not physically seen which has given rise to the dangerous trend of pay-on-delivery which in itself negating the very motive of e-commerce platform. SimpleLink, a product of SimpayPay has decided to come to the rescue of both merchant and customers alike. With its world class Level 1 PCI DSS certification, SimpleLink is making social media sales as easy as using a unique URL to receive payment from customers. All you need to do are:

1. Visit Simplelink.ng, and Sign Up. It is totally free of charge.

2. Enter your product/service and generate a link which you can then send to your customers via SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram

3. When the customer clicks/taps on the link, a checkout page pops up that contains the selected items, as well as text fields for the customer to enter their card details, and delivery address.

With these three simple steps, SimpleLink gives you the liberty to take your store to any platform you like. SimpleLink also handles your pickup and delivery to customers. You determine your price, where you want your good and services (your shop) and get your payment right to your account without the fear of it been delayed. Cool you think? Sign up today on www.simplelink.ng