This week's rates, in one place
Rice, oil, dal, sugar. The items customers phone to check before walking over — answered on the page, updated when your own cost changes.
An online page for your grocery shop — ₹500 a month
Your regulars send you the same monthly list every time. Give them a page where they can tick it off, see this week's rates, and send the order without either of you typing it out again.
A grocery shop is not ten items, it is four hundred — in three brands and four sizes each, at rates that move week to week. The usual advice is to photograph everything, which nobody has time for. The way this actually works is that you put up what people order most and what people ask the price of most, and leave the rest to the counter.
Start your grocery pageWhat grocery shops put on their page
Sizes and brands as separate lines
One kilo and five kilo are different prices, and customers know exactly which one they want. Listing them separately stops the argument at delivery.
The monthly list
Your regulars order roughly the same thing every month. They tick through the page, send it, and you pack it — instead of dictating it over a phone call while you are serving somebody else.
How far you deliver
Say which streets you cover and from what order value. It stops the calls you were always going to say no to.
What is out of stock today
Mark it and it greys out. Customers stop ordering what you cannot supply, and you stop making apology calls.
Do I have to photograph four hundred items?
No, and you should not try. Start with the thirty or forty things people actually phone about — the staples whose rate changes, and whatever your shop is known for. That covers most of the questions you get asked.
Everything else stays exactly as it is: they come in, or they call you.
Questions grocery owners ask
- My rates change every week. Do I have to update it every week?
- Only for the items whose rate actually moved. It is a few seconds each on your phone, and it saves you telling the same new price to thirty people one at a time.
- Can customers pay before delivery?
- Yes, on your own UPI QR, straight to your bank. Or leave it as cash on delivery — many shops do both and let the customer choose.
- What about credit customers?
- Nothing changes. The page is where they see what you have and send the list; how they settle with you stays between you and them, exactly as it does today.
- Will this compete with the big delivery apps?
- It is not trying to. Those apps take a cut and own the customer. This is your own page, your own prices, your own UPI, and your own regulars — nobody in the middle.