ShopLyne – Mumbai’s New Seller-Friendly Mobile Marketplace. We would love your feedback!

Hi everyone!

I’ve been reading posts on TheRodinhoods for quite some time now and I keep coming back for the wealth of experience from entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs that this platform provides. There’s this wonderful sense of support and community that comes out in every post and the comments that follow. I’m looking forward to being a part!

Every time I’ve read a post here, I’ve wanted to talk about our latest project and now it’s finally time I can tell you all about it. It’s a local shopping app that we’ve launched in Mumbai called ShopLyne.

Our app is a platform for users to buy directly from handpicked local stores in Mumbai across various product categories, including beauty & cosmetics, home decor, gadget accessories, sports & fitness, pet supplies & more. We also give users a curated retail experience which is a compilation of the best discounts, offers and brands available across established local stores in the city.

We’re essentially a platform where users who’ve been buying from their trusted local stores for years can now order from them through our app. We want to focus on the experience of shopping locally that online/mobile shopping has been sorely missing – trust, familiarity and a sense of community. In a way, ShopLyne is an extension of the idea that we began working on 4 years ago at Real Reviews, the world’s only consumer video reviews platform. You’ll see some of these video reviews on the app as well.

From the sellers’ perspective, ShopLyne is the only mobile commerce platform in India that gives sellers direct contact with their customers and complete control from the moment they sign up – they upload their own inventory, retain control over their pricing, have their own dashboard to manage orders and they even make their own deliveries.

We essentially want to move away from the faceless seller phenomenon that’s prevalent online and give local retailers a mobile platform they can call their own. Our app-within-an-app model gives every store that signs up with us its own personal branding space and navigation area within the app. For a seller, it’s as good as having his own app combined with all the benefits of being in a marketplace.

Well, that’s the idea! We’re still in the process of signing up more stores and would love to know what you guys think. We could really use your feedback to make our app better.

You can download the Android app from the Google Play Store. Apple users, I’ll let you know when the iOS version is out in a few weeks. 

I look forward to connecting with all of you! 

Uttarika Kumaran

Co-Founder, ShopLyne

Google Play Store Link 

Twitter: @uttarika

UPDATE – MARCH 03, 2016

Our iOS app is live! Check it out here.