WHATSAPP BUSINESS PLATFORM
KiKUU
Increasing sales and scaling up WhatsApp usage with WhatsApp Business Platform
KiKUU
Brand
Sanuker
WhatsApp Business Solution Provider
SUCCESS STORY
By adopting WhatsApp Business Platform, KiKUU increased sales and their message open rate and extended WhatsApp usage from customer services to sales and promotions at scale.
increase in sales conversions
higher open rate compared to other channels
increase in unique customers via WhatsApp
THEIR STORY
Everyday essentials, delivered
KiKUU is an online shopping mall that sells everyday essentials, household items, clothing, and more in 16 African countries at affordable prices via their app. Founded in 2015 and based in Hangzhou, China, it has more than 1,000,000 products in its catalog and counts more than 10 million people as customers.
THEIR GOAL
Quality communication
The company wanted to find an innovative way to engage customers and increase sales. With the prominence of WhatsApp usage in Africa and variability of WhatsApp messaging features, it became an effective tool for them to boost sales and conversions.
THEIR SOLUTION
Innovative customer experiences
With a commitment to affordable prices, quality products, low shipping fees, and topnotch customer service, KiKUU interacted with customers using messaging apps and Facebook. As the company’s ecommerce market presence in Africa is quickly growing, customer inquiries about problems were solved mostly over the phone and by email. As a popular communication channel in the countries KiKUU does business in, WhatsApp intrigued KiKUU as a better way to communicate and engage with its customers.
Partnering with messaging experience experts at Sanuker, KiKUU built a customized workflow and experience on WhatsApp Business Platform. By migrating to Cloud API, hosted by Meta, Sanuker was able to pass on the reduced hosting and maintenance costs and provide a seamless integration experience to KiKUU. Together they created powerful campaigns to announce product sales for customers who had opted in to hear from KiKUU. By embedding a click-to-product-website button into the experience, customers could seamlessly click to the website and purchase.
With a high throughput of messages per second, KiKUU ran the first test campaign by sending WhatsApp push notifications to randomly selected opted-in customers. To compare performance with established channels, they sent the same messages to everyone else. “The result from the first campaign was amazing,” says Rebecca Cheung, Marketing Operation Manager at KiKUU China. “Over one week, we saw that customers opened WhatsApp push notifications 70 percent more often than messages on the other channels, leading to a 60 percent increase in sales.”
Additionally, the KiKUU team observed a 45.4 percent increase in gross merchandise value and a 53.7 percent increase in daily active users.
“We can include rich media with pictures and buttons in WhatsApp push notifications, so it provides a wonderful, immersive customer experience,” says Cynthia Ng, Marketing Manager at Sanuker. “The campaign observed a 35 percent increase in unique customers. Because WhatsApp Business Platform easily and seamlessly integrated with other platforms, we’re confident that the business will continue to give customers an even more innovative experience in the future.”
THEIR SUCCESS
Increased sales
With WhatsApp Business Platform, KiKUU boosted sales by 60%, increased the message open rate by more than two thirds, and increased unique customers by a third.
- 45.4% increase in Gross Merchandise Value
- 59.6% increase in sales conversions
- 70% higher open rate compared to other channels
- 53.7% increase in daily active users with WhatsApp
- 35% increase in unique customers via WhatsApp
“The result from the first campaign was amazing. Over one week, we saw that customers opened WhatsApp push notifications 70% more often than messages on the other channels, leading to a 60% increase in sales.”
Rebecca Cheung
“We can include rich media with pictures and buttons in WhatsApp push notifications, so it provides a wonderful, immersive customer experience. The campaign observed a 35% increase in unique customers. Because WhatsApp Business Platform is easily and seamlessly integrated with other platforms, we’re confident that the business will continue to give customers an even more innovative experience in the future.”
Cynthia Ng
PRODUCTS USED
WhatsApp Business Platform
Connect with customers easily by using tools to automate and quickly respond to messages.