Today, if you want to reach your customers and most valuable leads for your small business in 2022, you need to be available digitally and must invest in your online presence. However, taking your offline business online or deciding whether to really invest in your ecommerce site for the first time can be challenging. To end that, we have listed below 5 platforms which are helping offline businesses go online by providing end to end solutions including creation of websites, payment, deliveries, etc.
QPe
QPe-Bringing Bharat & Offline Businesses Online. QPe is the destination for transforming brick and mortar businesses into digital stores & empower them to manage orders, payments, deliveries & marketing/Promotion suite by simply automating businesses. Envisioning the digital transformation of every business (from small shops to SMEs and MSMEs), QPe has set its goal to empower them by eliminating the monopoly of aggregators in terms of hefty commissions and no data control through tech solutions. QPe runs on a subscription-based model where store creation is free for the merchants/businesses. Being a SaaS-based application, QPe has enough bandwidth to serve the entire Bharat and can scale exponentially to meet the client’s demands, even in the global market.
DotPe
DotPe is a multi-channel commerce platform headquartered in Gurgaon. Founded in March 2020 by ex-Pay-U founder and team members, Shailaz Nag, Gyanesh Sharma, and Anurag Gupta, the company has on-boarded over 7.5 million merchants in the country, including both large & small business enterprises. DotPe offers retailers a full stack of business solutions including an online store, marketing suite, payments and integrated delivery. It is the only Indian platform to have successfully penetrated the entire landscape of offline to online commerce – from merchants in rural pockets of India to mega players. It recently raised $27.5 million from investors like Pay-U, Google, and Info Edge Ventures, bringing their total funding to $35.5 million.
Dukaan
Dukaan App is a DIY platform that enables merchants, retailers and others with zero programming skills to set up their very own e-commerce store using a smartphone in 30 seconds. It powers small and medium-sized businesses across India to start, grow, market and manage their businesses over the internet. Dukaan enables local stores to become digital and use WhatsApp to sell their products. All a dukandaar needs to do is download the app, register their business, which takes less than a minute, and list their products. The link to their store can be shared with customers via WhatsApp for direct orders.
Shopmatic
Shopmatic is a Singapore-based technology firm that provides e-commerce solutions to small businesses and individual entrepreneurs. Launched in 2014 with an objective to empower millions of aspiring entrepreneurs with a digital footprint, the company recently partnered with Singapore-based retail management solutions company Octopus. The partnership aims to address the gaps that exist for offline businesses in going online in the Asia Pacific region. This mainly caters to retail markets.
Meesho
Meesho, an Indian-origin social commerce platform, enables small businesses and individuals to start their online stores via social channels such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram etc. Meesho is an Indian-origin social commerce platform founded by IIT Delhi graduates Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal in December 2015. Headquartered in Bengaluru, it was also a part of the first batch of Google Launchpad – Solve for India program.
