Things You Should Do To Run a Successful Hyperlocal Business

The hyperlocal economy works specifically as the name insinuates. It helps in catering to the needs of a small-sized geographical area. Buyers or consumers can order products like milk, newspaper, grocery and other stuff over a phone and the shopowner delivers the same to their doorstep. Not only this, the food delivery app-based services, personal care services, house care services, etc, all are part of the hyperlocal business. 

These kinds of shops are mostly used to their business through offline or physical storefronts but in this post covid era, they are now advancing to the next level by availing the benefits of hyperlocal commerce via different available apps. The concept today is highly massive and has been adopted by a majority of businesses to give new life to offline stores. 

The thing a store owner must follow while operating a  store on the hyperlocal marketplace is to deliver the products and services to the users as quickly as possible at a reasonable rate. Delivering products to people within the stipulated time is considered a service offered by the business. Apart from these, there are certain things we have to keep in mind while running a hyperlocal store. Let’s discuss a few of them below- 

Discovery Of Business
Hyperlocal business model spins around geography-based technology that plays a major role to make a vendor go online and competitively. This will allow the vendors to reach the local users offering them their services & products. If a business owner can deliver things of needs of his/her customers within stipulated time with or without any delivery charge at credit, can help to grow business as well as loyal customers. So, before choosing the hyperlocal app, vendors should finalize what service they want to offer to their customers. As if there is demand you will face fewer challenges while operating your business just like the demand & supply law of economics.  

Communication For orders
Gone are those days, when customers will walk into your physical store to get things. Now they want things to be delivered to their doorstep so that they can concentrate on things that they love to do. So, to make receiving orders easier, the vendor should introduce multiple channels like WhatsApp, SMS, Phone Call or even emails. The more you make it easy for the customers to communicate with your business, the more orders you will get. Even, when the order gets delivered if the business can communicate the status of the orders then it will also be counted as an added benefit. 

Also, communication can help you to resolve any dispute or difficulties which you might face while operating. If you are facing any difficulty with any customer regarding any order or payments, then communication is the only way out. If you are using any Hyperlocal Commerce App, you can ask for help, which is again an added way of communication. 

Bahikhata Management
We all know that people usually purchase milk, groceries and other daily needed stuff from their local Kiranawala on credit on day to day basis and make payment once a week or a month and this is where the problems occur. In the majority of the local shops a.k.a Kirana stores, they maintain their ledger or khata manually. Not only it is error-prone but also there is a huge probability of damage of losing it due to any mishap. Apart from this, due to multiple transactions, there is a huge chance that you might forget one or two transactions which will be impacting your businesses’ profitability.

To make bookkeeping easy and error-free, technology has stepped in. Now you can maintain your khata digitally via your smartphone. These apps not only make it easy for you to reconcile your total transactions but also you can share these with your customers so that they can cross-check them and make payments online. With these digitalkhata apps, credit and debit transactions have become more transparent than ever.  

Responsibility
Delivering products and services related to day to day needs on a daily basis (Subscriptions) in a short time with or without delivery charge makes the hyperlocal marketplace different from eCommerce. By delivering products of daily needs at a reasonable price on credit will help you to increase your loyal customers, and if they get the confidence in your service then there is a huge possibility that they will refer your store to their neighbours and friends, as having a delivery person who can deliver things on their available timing works as a cherry on the top. 

To make your business operations smooth and more reliable, there are many hyperlocal commerce apps available in the market. All of them are made to make the business owner’s life easy. They all have different characteristics like with some you only can maintain online khata, with another you can maintain a subscription business. But today we’ll be introducing you to Zopnote – Billing, Collection & Digital Khata App for Your Offline Business. 

With Zopnote, not only you will be able to maintain hisabkitab digitally, but also you can send payment reminders along with payment links with their preferred payment options to your customers. Along with that we have curated it in such a way where you can manage the subscriptions with ease without any error. With these added transparencies, your relationship with the consumer will get strengthened day by day. 

To know more about Zopnote, you can visit Zopnote.com and to download the app from the Google Play Store, you can click here. Do you think we have missed any hurdle that you face and which should be mentioned here, please do comment and let us know your thoughts.