Can’t decide what to gift your loved one? This startup has an answer

Last diwali Ritwik Sharma’s employer gifted him a dinner set. Expensive cutlery. A nice gesture, but it’s the seventh dinner set he owns, so it’s destined to wind up in his storeroom. Shreya Momaya dreads weddings- not because she can’t decide what to wear, but because she suffers from “can’t decide what to gift” syndrome. Bangalore-based Qwikcilver launched Woohoo, a gift card store aimed at solving this problem.

Qwikcilver launches Gift card Superstore – Woohoo.in

Qwikcilver Solutions, India’s pioneering Gift Card Company has announced the launch of Woohoo.in, India’s First Fully Integrated Mobile Responsive Online Gifting superstore. The platform aims to be a one stop destination for consumers for personal and occasion based gifting, and will allow them to choose from a wide array of gift card brands.

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What if someone said you could collect the long forgotten Bank Royalty points, Corporate Reward points and e-Wallet cash, and splurge it on shopping, dining or that vacation you were planning? Woohoo lets you do just that. It’s an app that aggregates multiple payment options in a single platform for consumers to transact at various online and offline retail outlets. The company has currently partnered with 50+ brands. This lets a Woohoo user access 3000+ stores and portals. The list includes apparel and accessories stores like Allen Solly, Westside, Fastrack, Hidesign, Restaurant chains like Noodle Bar, Mani’s Dum Biryani, or Entertainment and leisure outlets like PVR, Cleartrip and others

Gift Cards are perfect for last minute gifting

The art of Gift giving has been a tradition across cultures. Confusions, doubts, uncertainties often cloud minds while purchasing gifts. To make the process simpler, QwikCilver Solutions has pioneered a unique Gift card technology for smart Indian customers. With Gift cards of fixed price value issued by a retailer, buyers can easily present them to their friends , families or even clients in place of a physical product or cold cash. One can say, it is replacing gift vouchers of last decade. To delve a little deeper into their partners and programs, Pratap TP, Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer, QwikCilver Solutions helped gain insight. Founded in 2008-09, the company has grown significantly to command a 90% market share in the Gift card category. It is growing at the rate of 120% year on year.

Woohoo in conversation with Businessworld Magazine

Gift cards that can be operated through your smartphone may be becoming a trend globally, but in India physical digital gift cards still rule and Qwikcilver controls 80 per cent of this market. Five years after launching Qwikcilver Solutions — a Bangalore-based provider of all kinds of stored value cards — BITS Pilani pass-outs Kumar Sudarshan and T P Pratap forayed into an online multi-brand gifting portal ‘Woohoo’ last year. They also provide digital gift card options for partner brands that can be gifted and delivered through mobile phones and emails. Talking to BW Online’s Tanuja Chatterjee, Woohoo.in, Co-founder T P Pratap discusses how the digital gift cards market is growing by leaps and bounds in India.

Woohoo.in rides the social media wave with Facebook-based gift vouchers

With Woohoo Friends Club, users can gift vouchers of various brands that are available with Woohoo.in on Facebook. While the realm of social media expands, marketing on the various social platforms is getting innovative as well. Brands engaging with consumers on social media is old news; what is not is the new ideas that are being thought of to keep the consumers interested. Woohoo.in, an online destination for gift vouchers (or gift cards) of various brands, for instance, is riding the wave, taking its services to the Facebook platform. The portal has launched a new initiative called the ‘Woohoo Friends’ Club’ that allows Facebook users to send gift cards of a wide range of merchants and brands, electronic or physical, to their friends on the social networking platform. The gifting platform, called SoLoMap (Social to Local Marketing Platform) is the first of its kind to be launched in the Asia Pacific region, claims the company.