Acer Forges Strategic Partnership with Paytm

by | Aug 2, 2016

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Acer India will be the partnering with Paytm to provide incentives in form of Paytm cash to its channel partners and their sales representatives

Bangalore, INDIA (July 27, 2016): ACER, the leading PC company in India, today announced its strategic partnership with Paytm, India’s largest mobile payment and commerce platform. Under this partnership Acer will pay its partner’s sales representative incentives in the form of Paytm cash. This partner-friendly measure ensures that the sales representatives receive the incentives instantly as cash in their Paytm wallets thereby negating any lag through the traditional payment method. Using the wallet, the sales representative can purchase an array of products and services both online and offline including payment of various bills. User will also benefit from the various cash-back offers available to Paytm users and realize higher value for their money.

Elucidating further on the alliance, Mr. Chandrahas Panigrahi, Sr. Director and Consumer Business Head, Acer India says, “We are pleased to have partnered with Paytm to offer Paytm Cash as an efficient means to transfer sales incentives to our partners and their representatives rather quickly. While the country is already witnessing a digital era, this one-of-its-kind step has all the potential to improve our relationship with channel partners and make our objectives parallel towards a widespread goal. This will further consolidate our position as a technology first company broad basing its reach by providing new age solutions.”

Regarding this alliance, Mr. Kiran Vasireddy, Senior Vice President, PayTM said, “This unique partnership with Acer paves the way for building next generation sales & distribution structures based upon cashless and real time incentive disbursement. Not only does this bring in operational efficiency in the short term, but in the longer run these services have the potential to deliver productivity gains leading to higher revenue realization. This partnership also marks Paytm’s entry in the enterprise solution space. Going forward, we plan to roll out multiple custom enterprise solutions. We are glad to launch this offering with an industry leader like Acer which is well-known for its technology edge.”

About Acer

Established in 1976, Acer is a hardware + software + services company dedicated to the research, design, marketing, sale, and support of innovative products that enhance people’s lives. Acer’s product offerings include PCs, displays, projectors, servers, tablets, smartphones and wearables. It is also developing cloud solutions to bring together the Internet of Things. Acer is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2016 and is one of the world’s top 5 PC companies. It employs 7,000 people worldwide and has a presence in over 160 countries. Please visit www.acer.com for more information.

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Brian Pereira
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Brian Pereira is an Indian journalist and editor based in Mumbai. He founded Digital Creed in 2015. A technology buff, former computer instructor, and software developer, Brian has 30 years of journalism experience (since 1994). Brian is also the former Editor of CHIP India, InformationWeek India and CISO Mag. He has written for India's leading newspapers such as The Times of India and The Indian Express. Presently, he serves the Information Security Media Group, as Sr. Executive Editor. You'll find his most current work on CIO Inc. Brian writes on a wide range of topics like aviation, drones, cybersecurity, tech startups, cloud, data center, AI/ML/Gen AI, IoT, Blockchain etc. He is also a certified security professional - EC-Council and ISC2. Follow Brian on Twitter (@creed_digital) and LinkedIn. Email Brian at: [email protected]
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