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= TackThis! = TackThis! is an online store creation platform in the Philippines and Singapore. The software as a service (SaaS) website is a product of Takatack Technologies PTE Ltd, and powered by Voyager Innovations, a wholly owned subsidiary of PLDT and Smart Communications, Inc.

'''TackThis! Concierge''' is a service for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which handles online store creation, inventory and logistics management, payments, and customer service.

TackThis! is complemented by online store discovery platform Takatack.

History
TackThis! started as a proprietary project of Paywhere, an e-commerce startup co-founded in Singapore by CEO Dickson Gregory, COO Damian Chow and CTO Vincent Lao in 2010. Paywhere was incubated by Red Dot Ventures, Singapore’s National Research Foundation, and NUS Enterprise.

In August 2015, Philippine telecommunications firm PLDT, through unit Voyager Innovations, bought Paywhere and its platforms TackThis! and Takatack, for US $5 million.

Voyager had been working with Paywhere to market TackThis! in the Philippines since 2014. The move was indicative of PLDT Group’s goal to build its new digital unit Voyager Innovations Inc, into a competitive digital economy platforms enabler for emerging markets where only 1 per cent to 5 per cent of 1 million registered SMEs have websites, with only a fraction of those having transactional online stores.

Awards
TackThis! was awarded the Best E-Commerce Technology Provider by Smart Awards and Best SME Service by Asia Communication Awards. It was also a finalist for the Best Emerging Market Initiative by Asia Communication Awards.

Takatack
Takatack Philippines is an e-commerce discovery platform that hosts merchants powered by online store creator TackThis!, and partner affiliates such as Zalora Philippines and Galleon Philippines.

The platform as a service (PaaS) also creates white-labeled marketplaces.

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