White label software comes as monthly or annual subscriptions. They are mostly available under the SaaS model. The seller company brands the model and offers it to clients and users as their own. Important tips for choosing the right software are given here.
White label Design and programming Products: web design products, website builders, and web app design programs fall under this category of software.
They range from lead generation tools to social media management, SEO tools, PPC tools, and reporting tools.
Look for shared values and beliefs in partner agencies. Successful partnership build-up depends on smooth interchange and exchange.
Be aware of the range of services you can access and how they integrate with your needs. Look for systems that allow direct communication in your name and on your domain.
Telephone conversations, online chats, and reports all carry your logo although they come from the parent agency.
A conference bridge plan provides a neutral interaction space without revealing contact numbers. Direct calling plans offer a special contact number that customers recognize as the company’s service number.
contractual obligation to maintain confidentiality during the contract and beyond. Look for a no poach clause.
All client interaction comes from the parent agency. There is no scope for outsourcing such interaction. The parent agency employs only trained professionals to interact with clients.
Professionals involved in client interaction are under the same non-disclosure contract as the agency.
We need to put referrer blocking systems in place for brand protection. Browser level blocking prevents source tracking. This ensures no trails are left for analytics to pick up.
Local departmental stores are the most popular businesses and dominate the market in a particular area. The main reason is their accessibility and simple approach, hassle free buying experiences, friendly behaviour and most importantly, emotional attachment of the customers.
Especially for regular customers, it’s a matter of trust and loyalty. However, this model of operation is highly contact-based.
Times have changed and there is a need to change this model of operation too. With the increasing emphasis on contactless operations for local businesses, how can local businesses maintain their existing customer base’s loyalty and trust?
The answer is – by offering them with easier and convenient means to contact them without actually visiting the store. Lokaly offers exactly this.
In a contactless safe distancing world, Lokaly helps take your local store online and helps keep your regular customers. You can instantly take your products online and accept online payments too.
Here’s what you get with Lokaly:
create your very own store. You can completely rebrand Lokaly with your specific branding requirements.
Although you can simply download and use it as-is, Lokaly can also be customized if needed. You can add your store specific features that caters to your customer base.
Many people believe that mobile applications are usually expensive. Lokaly challenges this notion by offering affordable alternatives. With Lokaly, you can pay as you go!
If your business requires features not built into the product, we can customize it to include the features you need.
Apart from your regular customers, a mobile store will enable you to increase your customer base and revenues!
Ensure your business continuity in the Lockdown or stay home period – sign up for a solution that can take your business online within a few clicks!
Attracting customers to your online store requires smart marketing techniques to engage and convert them to long-term buyers.
Over the past 12 months, online sales have skyrocketed – mainly because, the whole world has been locked down and people are confined to their homes.
The regular stores had been shut down too. The online marketplaces however thrived. So, if you already have an online store, here are some smart marketing tips to keep your existing customers and attract new ones to drive epic growth for your business.
Ecommerce purchases have accounted for 16% of all the sales in the US last year. The eCommerce sales are predicted to keep growing even in the post COVID era.
Content personalization – If your store is online, it is very important to note that content is the main driver for your customers. So, content personalization is one trend to look out for.
Audience, Competition, and trends – create your marketing strategies with your audience in mind. It’s also essential to do complete competition analysis. Check the latest trends and create a comprehensive plan for your products.
Social media – social media is one of the most trending places today. People share what they purchased, how they found it, and what were their experiences while they used the product.
Emails – emails are more powerful than we think.
They can target new customers, retarget old ones, and remind customers of abandoned shopping carts. These are a powerful means of getting people to buy more.
So, if you have already taken your store online – there were a few smart ways to do more with your store to drive sales.
Increasing sales is one of the primary goals for all businesses. Whether you are a local departmental store or a huge e-commerce giant, businesses are always on the lookout for different channels to increase their online sales. There are many techniques you can use to get more and more people to order from your store. The very first move would be to take your store online – if it’s not yet. Either a mobile commerce store or a web store would be the right place to begin.
If you are planning to go mobile, there are plenty of ready options. Gone are the days when you spend months on end in developing an eCommerce or a mobile commerce platform. With platforms like Lokaly, you can simply create a store and upload products instantly! Well, going online is one way to increase online sales – here are a few pointers to drive more sales via your online store:
This is one of the basic things you need to take care of. The first look of the store should be appealing and attractive. A user’s decision to enter your store (like in the real world) largely depends on the impression you are able to create within the first 3 seconds. So, the first look counts – make the most if it.
After a customer has stepped into your store, make sure you have something amazing to offer them. The product images are the only reference they have to what you are trying to sell. So, invest in high-quality product images.
Create marketing campaigns and ensure that you create them with consistent messaging. It helps customers understand what you do and what your brand stands for.
Do not underestimate the power of social media – whether your business is small or big. Include features to instantly share your products on social media.
The right effort in the right direction will enable you to get the most out of your online store and drive sales and enable a faster growth rate for your business.
Using the latest technology in e-commerce significantly boosts a company’s chances to become a market leader. The latest technology can offer innovative solutions for enticing customers online. One such technology is Flutter, which takes cross-platform app development to a new level. Some of the main benefits of selecting flutter for e-commerce mobile application development are:
In today’s competitive business landscape, speed matters above all. The use of cross-platform app development allows reducing the time to market. The product can be released sooner and the app will be available on two devices – Android and iOS while performing like a native app – stable and reliable.
It’s known that the release of the application is just the beginning. Maintenance of the application is a large part of the process. It’s time consuming and it costs you too. Flutter’s apps solve these problems as well. In Flutter, adding new features and fixing bugs is easy. There are plugins and widgets available to accommodate any new features you want to.
This is one of the most important advantages of Flutter. Because it is cross-platform, two separate teams need not be hired to develop the e-commerce app. So, it saves costs. Developing an app on flutter requires less financial, human and material costs than developing a native application.
With the focus on the end user, many companies focus on immersive user experiences. Flutter has a wide range of tools and widgets to help design flexible and advanced UI features.
Many companies are apprehensive about creating new apps and discard the old ones. Flutter is flexible and enables you to embed code even in the native mode. Flutter has many more benefits. The transition to cross-platform development is gradual, but a less painful process for businesses.
Flutter is stable, reliable and definitely an option for businesses who wish to move to mobile e-commerce – soon!
Lokaly is an e-commerce app and built using Flutter technology.
The restaurant business is hyper-local and the lockdown made them close shop and depend on take away orders for sustaining. Not many restaurants were prepared for an online model of operation. But, with the pandemic and the lockdown that followed, it became imperative for restaurants to take the leap and go online quickly. This is exactly where Lokaly can help:
Instant setup
Lokaly helps quickly set up an online restaurant that can instantly enable you to reach out to your customers. Take-away and food delivery options help keep these restaurants afloat even in times of crisis. Restaurants can create an online food ordering system and share their latest menu items with customers.
Discounts and offers
One way to ensure customer loyalty is to offer special offers and discounts on various items on the menu. The Lokaly app enables you to quickly set up discounts and offers. You can update combos, bestsellers, enable users to find various cuisines, and get a restaurant list by selecting cuisines.
Attract new customers & keep the old
Discounts and offers not only attract new customers but also help retain the existing ones. Further, they offer a great means to give value to customer’s money. Discounts not only add to the overall customer experience but also help boost sales and improve your engagements with customers.
Lokaly offers restaurants the one ingredient that could enable you to not only go from a brick and mortar model to an online model with great features to support better customer experiences and drive more sales – even in times of crisis. Customers tend to trust their regular restaurants and seeing your mobile application that offers all their favourite menu items for online order placement will definitely create a positive impact and drive more sales.
Get your restaurant online instantly with Lokaly!
Dashboards are essential admin tools that help you keep on top of everything that’s going on with your online store. They display all the data in a visual format that makes it easy to get a glimpse of everything that matters for your store.
Lokaly has an extensive dashboard with information on your orders, payments, overdue, customers, modes of payments and lots more.
Here are a few things you can check out instantly on the Lokaly dashboard:
This gives you the numbers that indicate the number of stores you have in this marketplace, the total items, and the earnings. At a glimpse information of all these give you as owners a good understanding of where you stand as far as your store is concerned.
The order statistics offers useful information about the total number of orders that are pending, those that are currently running, those that are completed, and even those that are cancelled.
payment modes tells you which customers have paid by which methods. The methods available are:
This section offers you with the information such as the order count, amount and items count.
A credit account can keep track of the store credits that have been offers and to whom and also tells you which payments are overdue.
These statistics tells you the last few orders that were placed with your store.
With a dashboard, you can monitor and measure your business performance by tracking data points and gives you valuable insights into everything that you need to know. This gives you data to base your future business strategies on.
Lokaly is a ready-to-use marketplace that allows local businesses, including departmental and grocery stores, to take their store online with just a few clicks.
we implemented this solution for a US based grocery store for delivery service to their local customers.
The client was able to take grocery delivery to the next level via a website and mobile app to give their customers the convenience of shopping south Asian groceries online.
The solution also provides fast and contactless payments which are a need of the hour.
Lokaly offers a white label solution which is completely re-brandable and customizable too.
With Lokaly, customers could create an online store – complete with products, colour palette, logo, currency options and a lot more re-branding options were added. The customer could add all their branding and personalization elements easily to set up shop online.
Lokaly is a ready product with excellent features to help businesses who wish to go to market quickly. Rather than spending months on the development of an eCommerce platform from scratch, Lokaly offers departmental stores and grocery stores a ready-to-use and ready-to-launch platform. Businesses can instantly upload products and begin selling!
Although Lokaly is a ready-to-use platform, it also offers a means to customize features as per your business requirements.
Despite the pandemic and the lockdown that shut down the whole world, client saw an opportunity that could enable them to keep in touch with their customers. Creating an online presence instantly enabled them to take their grocery store online.
Lokaly has many such successful implementations. For more information about our products and services, feel free to email us at info@lokaly.in or call +91 79 40007881. Our experts will be happy to assist you with your requirements.
Lokal stores form a high percentage of local businesses – anywhere in the world. These local stores offer a simple approach, friendly customer service, and hassle free buying experiences. Many times, these local stores also offer door-step delivery, easy pick-up, and emotional attachment with the local residents within that particular area.
But, ever since the pandemic shut the world down in early 2020, local stores were the first to shut down. These local stores such as grocery, vegetable and fruit stores, and pharmaceutical stores were the first to get impacted as customers couldn’t go out and they had no immediate means to go online to take orders and deliver goods. This is exactly where Lokaly can help.
Lokaly ensures that customers get easier access to their favourite stores and adhere to the safe distancing rules by making online payments too.
Now where businesses are moving towards delivering the best customer experience with the help of Advanced technology. Using Artificial Intelligence or AI it is possible. Different form of AI provides predictive analysis, understands customer’s behaviour and shopping patterns. Based on that businesses can sense and predict their customer’s needs accurately on very large scale.
This is how Lokaly – Super App help their sellers to provide new kind of customer service and sell based on proven future trends and analytics.
“Restaurants are Looking Beyond…”, says an article by The Economic Times. Restaurants are now adopting platforms that charge lesser commission fees compared to dominant food aggregators. Asking for high commission and masking consumers’ data, restaurants are moving to marketplace-based platforms. These changes (aka savings from hefty commission %) will be rewarded to consumers as discounts on their online orders. This is going to enable a more modest and effective model – Direct to Consumer (D2C).
When businesses opting for ready-made solutions, where they can save cost, get access to their consumers’ data and manage online business easily. Lokaly is a ready-made and transparent solution for small to large businesses. Lokaly has partnered with 30+ restaurants based in Ahmedabad. Also, Lokaly has developed solutions for some famous brands in the USA. Lokaly provides free trial and support to sellers to know the platform better.
