One of the biggest decisions you will make for your business is the choice of the eCommerce platform that is scalable and will ensure long term growth. The platform should also help customers that are engaging with your brand to reduce friction while they’re getting the product they need. Ensuring employees have what they need to implement campaign strategies and at the same time be ready to use without add on cost for maintenance and installation.

Whether you are a brick and mortar store with a strong local presence or are looking for an enterprise eCommerce solution, building one from scratch is out of the question! The time frame and the cost is simply too high for such an endeavour.

The good news is that there are a number of ready to use eCommerce solutions such as Lokaly that enable you to go online instantly. These solutions are highly customisable too. Being white labelled, you need not worry about how it will ‘look’ for your brand.

Lokaly is ready to use, white labelled eCommerce solution. It enables local stores to quickly go online by quickly upload the products and begin selling.

Some of the features of this marketplace are:

  • Completely White-label solution
  • Customized & Branded Solution on App Store
  • Your own Marketplace subscription model
  • Customizable Features
  • Increase your revenue
  • Ensure your business continuity in the Lockdown or stay home period

Lokaly can be completely customised to suit your business requirements. It’s the easiest and fastest way to reach your customers where they are – online. It not only helps you keep up with the latest in the online world, but also helps keep in compliance with the latest no contact delivery policies for the covid 19 rules. With customisations, you can make the app look, feel and serve your customers as your business requirements.

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:

Completely White-label solution

create your very own store. You can completely rebrand Lokaly with your specific branding requirements.

Customized & Branded Solution on App Store

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.

Your own Marketplace subscription model

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!

Customizable Features

If your business requires features not built into the product, we can customize it to include the features you need.

Increase your revenue

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!

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:

Faster time to market

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.

Easy maintenance

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.

Cost efficiency

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.

Customizable advanced UI

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.

Easy integration with the existing apps

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.

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:

Lokaly Statistics

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.

Order statistics

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 

payment modes tells you which customers have paid by which methods. The methods available are:

  • Add to credit account
  • Cash on delivery
  • Online payment
  • Card on delivery

Order count by the hour 

This section offers you with the information such as the order count, amount and items count.

Credit account

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.

Last orders

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.