Get to know Warko, the Cooperative Platform for UMKM Go Digital

Warko is a startup company (startup) based multi-stakeholder cooperatives that claim to be the solution MSMEs in this digital age. The focus is on helping digitization stalls, kiosks, shops and motorcycle taxis online.

Startups This local platform was started by local young people from Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, namely Warko CEO Adam Nugraha Wiradhana, COO Warko Mimin, and CFO Warko M. Riyan who are optimistic that they can bring their platform to compete with other players. startup national.

Get to know more about the multi-stakeholder cooperative platform, along with an explanation regarding Warko, along with the services offered and the reasons why MSMEs need to use it. Read more.

Get Closer to the Warko Platform

Working on it since the end of 2019, the founders of Warko saw that their platform could shed light on the problems experienced by MSMEs, especially regarding local stalls which are increasingly being eroded by the presence of modern retail.

Through its programs, Warko's mission is to help MSME actors to be empowered so that they can survive and even compete in the digital market through digitization.

In addition, MSMEs are expected to be more competitive in facing competition with modern retailers. Until now, Warko claims to have embraced 18 thousand MSMEs to join this business, and 2 thousand business people have joined as members.

Why Do MSMEs Need to Look at the Warko Platform?

Warko offers services where MSME actors can make own shop on the platform. MSMEs can provide and sell products for household daily needs easily without having to meet directly with buyers.

The way it works is that small business actors such as stalls, kiosks, shops and motorcycle taxi drivers can join Warko not only as partners, but further as cooperative members.

With the multi-party cooperative system that is carried out by Warko, platform users from both the business actor and buyer side will get points as the remaining business results. Warko considers that its platform is different from the others because it focuses on community businesses that are rarely touched.

Warko Services and Features that Support the Digitalization of MSMEs

The main service that Warko offers to MSME actors is to provide website free of charge as a liaison between MSMEs and various digital platforms and E-commerce local, national and international.

Some of the features provided in the MSME digitization service include buying and selling systems, shipping goods and cooperatives. In addition, Warko also provides supporting services and features in the form of digital training, digital tools to digital templates for MSMEs.

Warko's products as a whole include the following:

• Branding and stall management.
• Mobile App for stalls, motorcycle taxi drivers and buyers.
• Warehousing for shop supplies.
• Dashboard to monitor sales performance.

Launching the Kalimantan Post, CEO of the Warko Digital Nusantara Cooperative, Adam Nugraha Wiradhana, said that the platform developed by Warko is basically not much different from the application Grab and Gojek. The difference is, Warko focuses on targeting people's stalls that can sell all their wares.