What's Working At Shopinas

To all the Merchants who have registered at Shopinas:

Thank you so much for signing up with us! We are still in the middle of our soft launch and we're working on a lot of features that will make Shopinas and Air21 iBayad rock.

We ask for your patience while we are in our early stages. At this point, there's lots of things you can do to make your own Shopinas store awesome, like working on your store design, uploading your products, filling your inner pages with content and developing your store policies.

What's working in Shopinas

• register as a merchant/shopper
• activate your store via all Mail and More branches EXCEPT Visayas and Mindanao branches
• activate your store via email also (support@shopinas.com)
• upload photos, product descriptions
• verify your store by uploading your business documents
• customize your store using templates
• customize your store using HTML (email us on how to do this: support@shopinas.com)
• simple google analytics

What's still to come in Shopinas and iBayad

• loading your iBayad account, paying for your transactions
• the Shopinas Mall
• forums
• customer support live chat
• improved transaction tools for buyers (ex, "Happy" button to end transaction prior to the end of the 3-day dispute period)

We are also open for feedback, so please let us know if you encounter any bugs or issues so we can work on them pronto!

To the merchants who haven’t activated their accounts, please do so. We’d like to see you go live!

Thanks again!

The Shopinas Team

Air 21 Global President and CEO’s Welcome Speech at the Shopinas Launch

Good evening to all of you beautiful people. I’m so thrilled and honored by your presence here tonight. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I would like to thank my parents, Bert and Sylvia Lina for their unconditional love and support. For without them, we wouldn’t be here tonight to celebrate this launch.

Next, I would like to thank our Chairman, Bert and his boss, Sylvia, for believing in me and in this new venture that I have started. I hope to make you proud. I also hope to make you money.

I’d like to acknowledge all the members of the Lina Group of Companies who are here especially our key partners in Shopinas: Airfreight 2100 and Mail and More. Thank you for all your help.

Special thanks to V8, our software development partner: Bon, Virginia, Clem and Sheryl. Yay, we’re done with Phase 1. On to Phase 2!

To our key business partners and allies from the banking and e-commerce industries as well as the government sector, I welcome you. Thank you for joining us tonight as we look forward to working with you in our attempt to make the Philippines a competitive player in global ecommerce.

I’d also like to welcome our blogger friends. Thank you for gracing our event. We hope you write nice things about us on your blog or else we won’t invite you to our next event. Just kidding.

I’d like to give the warmest welcome to our merchants who are here tonight. You are the main reason why Shopinas came about. Whether you’re an experienced online seller or a complete novice, we hope that Shopinas will help grow your business beyond anything you’ve ever imagined.

And of course, I’d like to thank my team at Air 21 Global: Don, Becky, Rene, Micci, Pat and Argel. Thank you for your hard work, dedication and for the snacks in the office.

Tonight, we are actually celebrating the launch of 3 things: Air21 Global, Shopinas and Air21 iBayad.

What is Air21 Global? It is the new company we set up to expand the Air 21 brand beyond Philippine shores. Our strategy is to leverage technology and the Internet to achieve this goal. After all, once you are on the Internet, you have an immediate global presence.

Our initial efforts are focused on e-commerce. We envision Air 21 to be the logistics provider of choice for Philippine online businesses. To achieve our vision we developed two services: Shopinas and Air2 iBayad.

Shopinas is an integrated, end-to end ecommerce platform specially created for micro to small to medium businesses in the Philippines. Shopinas was inspired by three good friends of mine, Trina Castillo, Mona Fenix and Monix Manzano who are successful entrepreneurs. Trina and Mona who are here tonight both sell bags, while Monix sells natural personal care products.

As they shared with me their stories of how they run their business here in the Philippines, it struck me how time-intensive and tedious certain processes were, like getting and confirming orders, verifying payments and arranging for logistics.

Meanwhile, in countries like the US, there already are companies like Amazon, Yahoo and Paypal that offer ecommerce services that streamline all those processes and make it easy for anyone to start selling online. However, those services are not optimized for Filipino entrepreneurs.

With this, I connected the dots and asked our Chairman if we could develop an ecommerce system that would integrate an online storefront, payment gateway and logistics in one easy to use platform. He said yes, and he also said to go talk to Bon Moya. That’s what I did, 8 months later, here we are.

As we were developing Shopinas, it became clear to us that for ecommerce to take off, we need to have a payment system that would be able to process cash payments. Although we explored various options, we decided that it was best to build our own payment system, which was then named Air21 iBayad.

Air21 iBayad is a reloadable e-wallet that can be loaded with cash at any Mail and More outlet. It is the e-wallet system used within Shopinas, in the future, we look forward to offering this service to other e-commerce channels as well.

With Shopinas and Air21 iBayad, we hope to address logistics and payment, two of the main issues holding Philippine ecommerce from truly flourishing. With our partnership with SureSeal, we hope to address the trust issue as well.

It is very exciting times for us indeed. As we move forward, I’d like to ask for your continued support in our endeavor. To the merchants, we look forward to seeing your stores on our site. Your success is our success.

On behalf of Air21 Global and the Lina Group, I thank you all again for coming tonight. We hope you enjoy the evening we have prepared for you.

Now, may I ask all of you to stand up and join me for our prayer.

Pilipinas Welcomes Shopinas

(Reposted from lina-group.com)

Posted August 9th, 2010

Shopping and technology combined brings more spank compared to how it used to be in the past. As the Internet widens its avenue for online shoppers and merchants, Shopinas created an online shopping district to give a fresh face for the Philippine e-commerce industry during its soft launch last August 4, 2010, at Crustacia Powerplant Mall, Rockwell, Makati.

Shopinas.com, a new web commerce tool

Air21 Global President and CEO Sheila Lina acknowledged partners, merchants, bloggers, and friends from Lina Group of Companies during her introduction to Shopinas. com.

Shopinas is a one-stop e-commerce site where you can shop, pay, and have your items delivered right at your doorstep. Even merchants will find ease on Shopinas’ features. All they have to do is to sign up, upload products’ photos, include the pricing, and get ready to sell!

Along with Shopinas was the launching of Air21 Global and i-Bayad. Air21 Global is a new company under the Lina Group which brings top logistics solutions provider, Air21, to the global scenario with Shopinas.com as their flagship project while i-Bayad is a prepaid reloadable e-wallet service specially designed for Shopinas. Air21 is an all-Filipino logistics provider specializing in door-to-door and pick-up services across the country.

A Shopinas walkthrough was presented through a mini play. This presentation gave a clearer explanation on how a Shopinas transaction is made. Shopping the Shopinas way is simple. By logging on to Shopinas.com, you can select which items you would like to purchase. Make sure that you have enough credits in your i-Bayad account. Or if not, you may reload your e-wallet to a Mail and More outlet so you may continue with the transaction. Wait for the allotted day and an Air21 courier will come right at your doorstep to deliver your item of choice.

Jovel Cipriano of Sureseal gave an orientation to clarify the importance of their organization in e-commerce. The Sureseal mark found in Shopinas website assures integrity in every transaction with Shopinas. An open forum welcomed queries and gave further explanation regarding this new online venture. Later that evening, Lina Group Chairman Alberto D. Lina delivered his closing remarks with pride and new hopes for Shopinas.

Watch out as Shopinas.com gives its full launch on August 18, 2010, and witness how it will invade the entire Philippine e-commerce industry.

Have a happy shopping!



Written by:
Lalissa Singson
UBE Media

Here Comes Shopinas!

Does the hassle of picking-up and delivering your products face-to-face with your customers kill you? NOT ANYMORE!

Does the boring and complicated interface of your current web platform compromise your creativity? NOT ANYMORE!

Does your business often get caught up in fraudulent and suspicious e-money/credit card transactions? NOT ANYMORE!

‘Coz here comes SHOPINAS!

Shopinas.com is an online shopping site that provides fully integrated services: Online store with customizable layout and design, imagination is your limit; pick-up and delivery services; and top of the line payment gateways.

And if you think you’ve had enough, think again!

We want your e-business and e-shopping payment transactions easy, hassle-free, and away from frauds! Presenting I-BAYAD!

I-BAYAD is a reloadable pre-paid wallet that you can use when you’re out of credit cards and hindered by network problems using mobile phone payments! I-BAYAD can be loaded primarily at more than 150 Mail and More outlets nationwide.

So you got: Delivery services, state-of-the art online store, credible and reliable payment solutions, all these at an affordable cost!

FOR EASY. SECURE. HAPPY SHOPPING, visit and register at SHOPINAS.COM!

Pilipinas, Go Shopinas!

You love shopping, don’t you?

But there are hassles - - traffic, crowds, and, if you’re not so lucky, you can fall prey to petty crimes.

Don’t fret. All these bad news to shopping doesn’t have to ruin your shopping appetite.

Good news is… there’s a new mall that makes shopping a unique experience. Naah, it’s not anywhere on land. It’s….right there where you want it anytime, anywhere.

Pilipinas, go Shopinas! Shopinas is the newest and only fully comprehensive online shopping. Shop for shoes, bags, jewelry, clothes, fashion accessories, food or anything that can be delivered right at your doorstep. With Shopinas, shopping is easy, secure and happy. No need for outright cash because you can pay through the commonly used payment systems and the latest addition exclusively developed for Shopinas, Air 21 I-Bayad.

Air 21 I-Bayad is the latest reloadable e-wallet that you can use when shopping at Shopinas. Just visit any of the 165 Mail&More branches nationwide and or register online, and load your e-wallet with any amount that you wish!

How can you shop in Shopinas? Just visit the Shopinas site, register your buyer’s account and browse all you want. Just click on the item of your choice, pay online and wait for the item to be delivered by Air21 or you may arrange pick-up at the nearest Mail&More branch.

Shopinas is a premium service of Air21 Global, a company under the Lina Group, and partnered with Air21 and Mail&More.

Pilipinas, go Shopinas… Your ultimate Shop-iness!