metagaonFor companies and startups
Sell into districts no distributor will service.
The reason a rural household cannot buy your product is rarely that they do not want it. It is that no distributor will carry stock that deep and no courier will promise a village address. We are a storefront on a network that already goes there.
What a storefront is
Your own page, not a listing
Layout, colours, logo and sections, set by you. It renders in the app without waiting for a release.
One catalogue, two faces
The same product carries a household price and wholesale trade terms. Which one a visitor sees is fixed by whether they are signed in as a verified shopkeeper or a household — a consumer never sees trade rates.
Enquiries and quotes
A village buyer asks about a pump; you answer with a priced quote with lines and an expiry; it becomes an order without anybody re-typing it.
Freight priced honestly
By weight and distance, on a vehicle actually able to carry it — rather than a percentage of the bill that pays ₹4,000 to move one box.
Paid before it moves
Payment is confirmed on our side before an order is released, so nobody is charged for an order that does not exist.
Demand by place
District-level demand built from what households actually asked for and what shops could not source. Not a pin code — a panchayat.
The shops have a supply problem too
A village shop runs out because its wholesaler is a phone call and a bus ride away, and it cannot afford to hold stock against uncertainty. Underneath the consumer marketplace there is a second one: village shop to block wholesaler to district bazaar, on the same vehicles.
It is guarded for sellers and never shown to consumers. A village family has no business seeing what their shopkeeper pays for a bag of cement.
Or buy an answer instead of a storefront
A researcher, an agri-input company, a lender sizing a rural product, or a block administration checking whether a scheme landed, can put a short set of questions to households in chosen blocks. The household answers in Hindi, or by speaking, and earns points for it.
What makes it worth buying is that the respondent is a verified household in a real village, and whether somebody who says they buy fertiliser monthly actually does is answerable — because the orders are in the same system.
Tell us what you sell, and where.
Include what you make, the districts you are trying to reach, and roughly what a typical consignment weighs. That last one decides more than people expect.