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e-Money Implementation Barriers and Challenges: A Case of Indonesian Interbank Network Company
Kirana Widyastuti, Putu Wuri Handayani, Ave Adriana Pinem and Iik Wilarso

Abstract: The development of e-Commerce triggers the use of e-Payment as a payment instrument in online shops. XYZ company as one of the payment solution provider in Indonesia developed an electronic money product named e-Money M. By the end of 2014, e-Money M users had only reached 1.25% of total users targeted in the business plan. This research is intended to identify the barriers and challenges e-Money M. Data was collected through questionnaires and interviews. The survey respondents are 125 e-Money M users. The qualitative data was collected through interviews to the e-Money M development team and customers. The research evaluated six challenges and barriers of e-Money M implementation namely user acceptance, security, infrastructure, socio-cultural factor, user convenience and user preference. The result from the questionnaires show that user preference is the most significant barrier faced by e-Money M implementation. From the interviews, we found the reasons of lack user tendency choosing e-Money M are the limitation of merchants, limitation of access method and limitation of transaction channel. From management view, it was found that e-Money M has difficulty in acquiring customers caused by lack of experience in B2C business and competitor’s strength customer’s base.

How to cite this article
Kirana Widyastuti, Putu Wuri Handayani, Ave Adriana Pinem and Iik Wilarso, 2017. e-Money Implementation Barriers and Challenges: A Case of Indonesian Interbank Network Company. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 3281-3285.

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