For Investors

We welcome potential investors!
We would be glad to find like-minded partners and take the Melbis Shop project to a new level of quality!

What do we have?

First of all, we have experience in e-commerce. The first online store was developed back in 1999, and in 2002 we achieved solid results and registered a legal entity. Since then, our path has been the continuous improvement of the Melbis Shop product.

What is Melbis Shop?

It is a unique software product for creating online stores. Its exclusive feature is a special Windows application that significantly increases the productivity of store employees. At present, we have already created the sixth generation of the software, which has been successfully proven in the e-commerce market over the past five years.

What trends do we observe?

At one time, more than 100 online stores were created on Melbis Shop v5! That was the initial stage of the e-commerce market formation. The next stage that we are now observing is increasing competition and business consolidation. As a result, many small projects leave the market because they cannot withstand the competition, while those that remain transform into industry leaders.

It can be stated that maintaining and supporting an independent online store is becoming increasingly technically complex and expensive. In turn, the most successful online stores strive to expand their product assortment as much as possible, gradually transforming into a new entity that we now know as a marketplace. 

What do we envision for the future?

On the one hand, a marketplace is an effective mechanism for providing the IT capacity of a large company to non-specialist entrepreneurs, reducing the cost of getting goods from manufacturer to buyer. But on the other hand, this approach creates a monopoly and reduces the quality of choice. Consequently, the buyer wastes part of their money. Nature does not tolerate a vacuum.

We believe that the path of creating not just global marketplaces, but competing industry-specific marketplaces, will be more promising and better balanced for the market. In this case, software will be needed that allows the marketplace paradigm to be used, but not only for large internet companies.

What have we done?

We have Melbis Shop v6. This version differs fundamentally from the concept of an “engine for an online store.” We have created a multi-user, technology-driven website and business process builder, naturally focused on e-commerce.  This product is not for a beginner taking their first steps in this field; it is for established online entrepreneurs who want to take their internet business to a new qualitative level. For a quick introduction to this version of the software, we recommend the “Screenshots” section.

Are there examples on Melbis Shop v6?

Yes, there are. We are witnessing this transformation firsthand: weaker stores leaving the market and stronger projects growing larger while migrating to the new version, Melbis Shop v6. First of all, we cite as an example the AstroScope company project, which has had a long-standing partnership with Melbis. It is a supermarket of optical instruments: https://AstroScope.com.ua  

The cooperation between our companies has allowed us to better understand the needs of participants in the e-commerce market. The AstroScope project is not just an online storefront; it is the new business structure that we expect to see more and more often in the future.

It includes the following elements: 

• Classic storefront website
  A typical online store process for product selection and checkout, with a personal account section for customers.
• Supplier section
  An additional web section for suppliers to interact with products and orders. Similar to the marketplace principle, but significantly less demanding for the supplier.
• Consulting and marketing department
  Industry specialists who create product descriptions and the store showcase, provide consultations, and help customers make high-quality product choices. In addition, they carry out marketing activities, covering their interests in mass media.
• Logistics department
  Employees responsible for:
• uploading supplier price lists into the system;
• monitoring the order fulfillment process;
• forming procurement orders or transferring orders to suppliers;
• analyzing and accounting for the company’s internal warehouse.
• Delivery coordination department
  Control of goods and cash operations, execution of procurement and deliveries.

What do we want?

We want to find investors and like-minded partners who share our views on the prospects for the development of the e-commerce market. Throughout our journey, we have tried to build a scalable project, and we truly hope that we have succeeded in this to some extent. 

We believe that our Melbis Shop v6 product is ideally suited for creating industry-specific or specialized marketplaces as an internal CMS, CRM, and ERP system. In other words, investment is needed in a proven business model in order to scale it.

It is possible that, on the way to where we are today, the technologies we use are not as modern as we would like. However, such is the law of technology: creating a high-quality product requires the resource of time, which always takes its toll. 

But thanks to breakthroughs in AI, the prospect is clear that porting software code to modern platforms will become much easier. Therefore, we look to the future with optimism and ask you to understand that the main object of investment is the ideas, structures, and methods that we have discovered and implemented.