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.
eCommerce has been around for quite some time now, but mCommerce has recently taken a dominating place. Mobile internet usage has exceeded desktop usage by 51% and over two-thirds of the world population owns a smartphone. As more and more people adopt smartphones, mobile commerce too accounts for a significant portion of the eCommerce market.
Evidently, mobile commerce or mCommerce is the future and businesses are hopping on the bandwagon to take advantage of this exponential growth. Well, the Majority of the customers are spending more and more time on mobile phones and mCommerce is the one way businesses can reach them – directly.
How can Lokaly keep you ready for a mobile future?
Lokaly is a mCommerce platform which enables store owners to quickly and conveniently create a mobile store and start selling! Moving from brick and mortar stores to a mobile commerce store was a huge challenge – simply because creating a strong and robust backend and a ready to use frontend was both times consuming and pricy. Many local stores and businesses hesitated to even think about the mobile option. But, Lokaly eliminates any hesitation the users may have while taking the leap from bricks to clicks.
Lokaly enables local departmental stores to quickly go mobile and reach out to their mobile customers. It also has convenient features for maintaining a khata (credit) for regular customers.
There’s no doubt that mobile is the future – not only for eCommerce but also for all businesses. The sooner businesses work on mobile solutions the better prepared they will be for the future. If you are a local business looking for a ready mobile commerce solution, take a look at our ready to go live product – Lokaly!
When you are a local business, you have a regionally marked territory and seldom get customers beyond a certain point. Every store has one-time customers and then there are regulars – who order weekly or monthly. It’s a great business model and a very certain business strategy. But, with all that, there are still limitations on how you can retain customers as well as gain new ones. Local stores are rarely a monopoly – there is always competition in the vicinity. So, how do you ensure that your customers get the ‘delight’, the ‘ease’, and the ‘convenience’ that a local store can or must offer?
Well, Lokaly has the answer to this plea. Lokaly is an E-Commerce application for local departmental stores and businesses. Stores can easily create their account, and avail all the features – just like a mobile app would.
Each sale is now on a digital platform. The seller can then introduce a khata system where loyal customers receive store credit. You can also check analytics to understand how your business is going. The app also has integrated features for payment reminders and ready for pickup notifications.
Once the decision is made – to move from bricks to clicks, it’s just about choosing the right platform for setting up your online or mobile store!
Lokaly’s multi-store feature enables local businesses to operate multiple stores within a single panel. Sellers can personalize many aspects of each of the stores and control the access for each of the websites separately. This feature allows you to publish multiple eCommerce stores from a single product database. Store owners can target niche markets, carve out special offerings from their products, and publish special products on each store.
Here are some of the ways in which Lokaly can offer multi-store configuration:
If your business is ready – Lokaly offers a ready to go live solution to go mobile quickly!
Times are still uncertain and physical distancing is still a norm. Ever since the lockdown in early 2020, the local businesses and brick and mortar stores took the hit. Customers weren’t able to physically visit stores and buy things, and stores could not sell anything. Every local store and every local business looked for an online or mobile means of reaching out to customers. Till today, customers are hesitant to go out to buy things. Placing their orders online feels safer, more convenient, and more appealing to customers.
Well, if you are a local store and wish to increase sales – even in difficult times, here are a few ways in which Lokaly can help:
Well, if you are a local store and wish to increase sales – even in difficult times, here are a few ways in which Lokaly can help:
If you are a local store and wish to grow your business online, or move your business to an online model, it’s time that you select a platform that will enable you to do so. Lokaly is one such platform where users can simply sign up, create an account for their stores and upload their products, and even manage payments and credits for customers.
Web and Mobile – both offer businesses with opportunities to expand and increase their customer base. Local businesses with a limited budget find it overwhelming to create mobile apps and E-commerce websites from scratch. Platforms like Lokaly offer futuristic opportunities and solutions to these businesses!
The year 2020 saw unprecedented circumstances and businesses were forced to innovate or close down. Those who chose to innovate and keep up with the demands of the time – survived. Technology has always been an enabler for forward thinking businesses and in tough times technology enabled businesses to stay afloat. Well, Lokaly has been one such technology solution that enabled local businesses to keep going in times of crisis. It enabled them to keep in touch with their customers, engage with them and more importantly allow users to make purchases and place orders online. In a world where distancing has become a good thing, Lokaly managed to not only help businesses survive but some of them even thrived.
Lokaly keeps adding new and innovative features to help businesses further their goals. Here are some of the latest updates to the mobile app that stood by you when the world was locked down.
We are happy to announce some of the new features:
With new features rolling in, businesses can upgrade their app and install the new updates and leverage from their benefits!
Local businesses are the ones that took the initial hit of the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. Restaurant businesses especially thrive on the number of customers that walk into the door. The situation demanded that businesses make themselves more accessible to customers and serve their needs. This is only possible by offering easy ordering services, safe distancing and online payments and such features that keep customers in touch with your business.
Setting up a restaurant online and reaching out to customers is the key to keep business afloat during times of crisis. Lokaly is one of the online spaces where local businesses such as restaurants can quickly setup shop and begin serving their customers.
With Lokaly, restaurants can:
When it comes to hyper local businesses such as restaurants, trust plays a very important role and restaurants can benefit by taking charge of the situation and keeping customers well informed about their opening hours as well as their newly added online food delivery services. Customers to understand and trust a familiar name and it will help you not only keep your existing customers, but also create an entirely new avenue for customers to come flooding in – the mobile way!
Get your restaurant online instantly with Lokaly!
Lokaly is a solution for sellers and buyers. Sellers can register their stores and manage their accounts with various buyers online through the seller app. With the buyer’s app, users can order from their favourite store within their vicinity via the app. Lokaly acts as a gateway between you and the local stores.
How can users contact local stores?
Lokaly acts as a technology bridge between the sellers and buyers. Many local stores depend on the number of feet walking up to their storefront every day. Many times they lack in the extra efforts to reach out to a larger customer base. Lokaly offers local businesses with the opportunity to expand beyond their regular customers and look at a larger customer base. The buyers can conveniently place their orders from their favourite stores within their vicinity and within a few taps and swipes the job is done. Well, the stores can also offer regular customers with a ‘khata’ system of payment wherein the customer is offer a type of store credit which can be paid when the amount is due.
The good news is that buyers do not have to pay anything to use the Lokaly app. It is completely free and can be downloaded for free from Google Play Store or Apple App Store.
The app is pretty simple to use too. After logging in, users can see the local stores on a dashboard. Users can also see whether the seller has approved their khata. Everything is displayed on the dashboard so that users get direct access to the information they require. All payments for the orders placed are managed via a khata system and can be done directly via the app. This means that there is no need of separate apps for making payments too. All transactions are effectively managed within Lokaly.
With Lokaly, businesses get a wider reach and no longer have to be dependent on those customers who walk up to their stores!
