For anyone who sells something
Eleven services. One network.
Eleven services, and each trade works differently — so each has its own page: what you get, what it costs you, and what we take, in plain numbers. Two of them hold two trades, because a market kitchen and a household cooking for a neighbour are not the same business.
Which one are you?
Each is one service. Answer any question under a card and that is your page.
Customers from villages you could never reach, and no catalogue to build.
- Do you run a shop at a block market?
- Do customers ask you to send things out to their village?
- Would you rather price as you weigh than keep a catalogue?
Two different trades under one service: a kitchen at the market, and a household cooking for a neighbour who lives alone.
- Do you cook at a kitchen in the block market?
- Or do you cook at home, and could cook a little extra?
- Is there somebody in your village who lives alone?
Pottery and handloom — and gates, grills and frames cut to size. A catalogue without a website.
- Do you make something with your own hands?
- Do you take orders for work made to size?
- Do you want to be found without running a website?
Demand known before you plant, instead of discovered at the mandi.
- Do you farm land in a block we run?
- Would you rather know demand before you plant?
- Can you fill a few baskets a week?
Passenger fares and deliveries that fit around the trade you already run.
- Do you own an e-rickshaw, a tempo or a car?
- Are you already driving these roads?
- Would you rather name your own fare than be given one?
Listed as a person, not a business. No signboard and no registration.
- Do you have a trade but no shop to put it in?
- Do you work evenings, or between other jobs?
- Would you travel to the next village for a job?
You are paid for the first conversation whether or not it becomes a visit.
- Do you hold a current medical registration?
- Would you answer a call from a village you do not serve?
- Do you hold a clinic anywhere in the block?
Work booked by the week, and a day's wage settled the day it is agreed.
- Are you a mistri, a thekedar or a building trade?
- Do you bring your own crew?
- Are you tired of arguing about days at the end of the month?
A wedding is a dozen trades landing on one date. The pandit sets it; the tent, the halwai, the band and the lights have to meet it.
- Do you perform ceremonies?
- Or do you supply a wedding — tent, food, band, lights, photographs?
- Do you work a season rather than a week?
Sixty-one kinds of small work, at a price you set, on the days you choose.
- Do you have an hour free in your own village?
- Would you read a letter aloud, or walk somebody to the bank?
- Would you rather be paid for it than asked as a favour?
Districts no distributor will service, on a fleet already going there every day.
- Do you make or distribute a product?
- Are there districts no distributor will service for you?
- Do you need delivery you do not have to build yourself?
True whichever one you are
You set the price
No reverse auction, no platform undercutting you to win a customer. The number you put on it is the number.
No catalogue to maintain
A shop prices as it weighs. A kitchen prices from its menu. A maker prices the job. Nobody is asked to run a website.
Nothing to join
There is no signing fee for any trade, nothing monthly today, and no commission on what you sell. When a monthly fee does replace commission for shops and drivers, the price will be published before anybody is charged.
What it actually costs, in rupees
Carriage is paid by the household, not by you, and it is shown to them before they confirm. These are the live rates, and the example is a real five-kilometre delivery.
| What it costs | Who pays | |
|---|---|---|
| Joining | ₹0, every trade | — |
| Commission on what you sell | ₹0. Every trade, every category, at any volume. The bill settles to you whole and nothing is deducted from it. | — |
| Every month | ₹0 today. A flat monthly fee will replace commission for shops and drivers; we will publish the price before anybody is charged, and the first month is free. | — |
| Carriage on a standard delivery | ₹12 plus ₹3 a kilometre — ₹27 over the usual five | The household |
| A second or third shop on the same trip | ₹5 for each one after the first | The household |
| How that ₹27 is split | It is not. The whole ₹27 reaches the driver. Metagaon takes no platform fee off it and no share of it. | — |
The vehicles were already on those roads before any of this existed. That is why a delivery can be worth making at village distances and village basket sizes — it is additional income on a route somebody was driving anyway, not a trip that has to pay for itself from nothing.
Tell us what you do.
One form, and somebody who knows your trade answers it. Nothing is committed — it starts a conversation, not an account.
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