Pantree

Surya Teja Reddy
5 min readDec 19, 2020

New age solution for all your home needs.

Imagine walking into the grocery store and getting everything at a large market, it could be tiring because you realize that everything you need is available, but you are spending your valuable time in just glimpsing through all the unnecessary stuff unless you are the most patient being in this world. My idea is to make a better-organized grocery shop which offers you the benefits of trust, health and time.

It is probably not surprising that it is an interesting time to be in the online grocery business. Every year people relying on the internet for the grocery are increasing.

By this time, you might have understood what Pantree is all about. Pantree is an online platform which delivers all your grocery requirements to your home from your trusted stores in your locality. We bring Grocery stores at the comfort of your home.

MARKET DEMAND:

Are you a working professional who has no time to take care of your homely needs? No worry we are here to help you.

Most people in the working community spend a lot of time at work and reaching their home gives them immense pleasure. So, going out to a busy grocery store or a shopping mall for just their daily needs is wearying. Where we come to action.

Aiming to satisfy the entire community of Pantry we would like to take over CTA of buying fresh fruits and vegetables directly from farmers at the government decided prices.

This would help both farmers and our users who will be provided fresh farm food.

Relevant Products in the market:

Currently, many companies are working in this field and are quite successful.

Some famous companies are Big basket, grofers and amazon pantry.

However, we are unique in our way.

Firstly, we rely on the nearby stores of your community which people have already had belief in from a long time so that we can deliver goods of good quality

Since we rely on nearby stores, Delivery will be optimized (i.e., Things will be delivered safe and very quick, unlike many companies.)

We entertain stores to participate in our system so that they can attract more customers and build profits.

Required Knowledge or Expertise:

Art of programming is an essential part of any e-commerce portal.

Hosting the app and website without errors is a basic thing which a company needs to do.

We would need the requirement of some of the high-level languages like JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, PYTHON, CSS, MEAN , RUBY ON RAILS.

Java is a popular object-oriented class-based programming language that is used to build eCommerce websites. It also comes equipped with robust tools to make developers more productive.

Ruby on Rails is a popular option to get your eCommerce website up and running quickly. Ruby is very flexible and a highly efficient solution for building complicated online stores and websites.

Python is another popular programming language that is highly efficient with enhanced readability. As a result, a lot of developers tend to favor this option.

Your Solution:

To get a clear understanding of Pantree look at this.

· We are an online e-commerce platform ready to take care of most of your home needs.

· We combine with grocery stores in your neighbourhood, to give you a swift and carefree experience.

· Our app contains all the grocery-based stores in your neighbourhood. You can place orders for your goods from your choice of stores

· We also buy fresh vegetables and fruits from farmers at MSP (minimum support price).

· MSP would be kept at 1.5 times the cost of production (as per recommendations from the M S Swaminathan chaired National Commission for Farmers).

· At last, we benefit the seller, the consumer, and the farmer.

Estimated Budget:

To ensure the smooth running of the entire cycle, we would require the successful running of the application.

To reach this we will require an estimated budget of 50,000 INR to 2,00,000 INR. (i.e., 10,000 USD to 30,000 USD)

Product Pricing:

There is no need to put a price tag on an e-commerce platform.

However, our consumers would only pay for what they buy.

Marketing Plan:

· We can promote our idea through popular online platforms such as YouTube

and television.

· Pamphlets can also be distributed around crowded areas such as malls.

· We can also Perform a flash mob on the essentiality of healthy food.

Risk Analysis:

Most eCommerce platforms are prone to online security breaches and cyber-attacks, which would leak confidential data. To overcome this, we will put a monthly cyber risk analysis to update our application with latest technologies and thereby overcoming data breach.

One more issue is with Client Disputes and Refunds.

Sometimes the customer has been charged for the product and sometimes product description does not match the real product.

Moreover, many refund frauds can also occur.

To avoid such problems, we came forward with some solutions.

· Checking the product at multiple checkpoints before checkout.

· Not charging the customer until and unless you are sure that all items have shipped and delivered.

· Using tracking number for each order that is placed and shipped.

· Barcode scanners help in minimizing payment-related errors.

Milestone and Timeline:

The deployment of product for common people’s use would require approximately 3 years.

Planning is the most important part while starting a business. This part should be done taking utmost care and takes approximately one year.

Implementing, testing, and improving the product needs to be done from time to time, however, when done for the first time will take half-an-year.

And the next and last step is launching and marketing which might take up to a year.

CONCLUSION:

However, we will not stop until we bring this in front of you.

Become a part of our development phase, share your views below regarding additional features which we can impart in our product so that our product will be more user friendly.

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