This central online portal for Philippine MSMEs uses the domain name “otop.ph”,
which will also act as extension for individual group sites and email addresses. It is
conceptualized and organized to function as directory listing with own profile page posting key data
and redirect to social media accounts and websites, if available, with easy and fast “search” access
feature to find competent MSMEs to accelerate economic growth. Without this “internet
infrastructure” facility for swift information dissemination, MSMEs will only be reactive instead of
proactively promoting globally to address industry needs missing out innovating early on to develop
competencies to take advantage of opportunities to gear up for e-Commerce businesses.
Under R.A. No. 9501 or the Magna Carta for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
(MSMEs), the term has two operational definitions based on asset and employment that shall refer to
“any business activity within the economy’s major sectors, namely: industry, trade, services,
including the practice of one’s profession, the operation of tourism-related establishments, and
agri-business”, which for this purpose mean those involving the manufacturing, processing, and/or
production of agricultural produce, whether single proprietorship, cooperative, partnership or
corporation whose total assets, inclusive of those arising from loans but exclusive of the land on
which the particular business entity’s office, plant and equipment are situated, must have value
(employee) falling under the following categories – Micro: not more than PhP3 million (1-9); Small:
more than P3 million to P15 million (10-99); and, Medium: more than P15 million to P100 million
(100-199), respectively, duly registered with the appropriate agencies as presently provided by law,
except in the case of micro enterprises as defined above.
