IRCTC has clocked a total of 6547581 number of successful transactions in the month of January 2010. In total, there were 77%  successful transactions across all the payment categories. As far as total transactions are concerned, 23% is a huge failure rate and questions the efficiency of payment gateways. 73% success rate for credit/debit cards, 71% success...
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TripAdvisor has partnered with IRCTC to power travel review content on IRCTC website. IRCTC drives 33% of total tickets sold by Indian railways and the deal is surely a big entry for TripAdvisor on India’s most successful ecommerce website. TripAdvisor also licenses it’s travel reviews to Google. IPL Theatre Rights And now, you can watch IPL matches on...
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Internet in India - Stories from irctc tickets and share trading and why Indian netizens need pain killers (and not vitamins)
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IRCTC recorded Rs. 6 billion in the month of April 2009 (increase of ~15% since Jan 2009) out of which Rs. 4.1 billion accounted for successful transactions (for the record, irctc contributes 1/3rd to ecommerce industry) Credit cards rule the transactions (37%), followed by Debit cards (32%) and Cash cards constituted 20% of the total...
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Part 2 of series on ecommerce in India . This article (contributed by
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Here is the banner ad rate for IRCTC’s payment page – 168*193 size banner auction’s (the ad appears on the left sidebar on the payment page) minimum bid is Rs. 3,00,000 (6 months duration). IRCTC Transaction for Jan 2009 Total # of transactions: 5937993 Total amount transacted- Rs. 5260270734 Total amount transacted- Credit Card: 2132850175 Total amount transacted:  Debit...
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Indian railways has launched online hotel booking service powered by Cleartrip (they are the exclusive provider of hotel content, availability and pricing to the Indian Railways) This is quite a big win for ClearTrip as Indian Railways is one of the most successful e-commerce site in India and the partnership itself will give Cleartrip a...
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ClearTrip has launched train booking and is the first OTA to offer this service. The site is neatly done (of all the web players, it won’t be wrong to say that CT has the best UI) and what’s really commendable is the presentation of information. For instance: A single search provides users with train fares,
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