This app can help you shop at Balogun market from your House

This Startup Wants To Help You Shop At Balogun Market From The Comfort Of Your House

If you've ever gone to Balogun market - or any Nigerian market at all - this startup should intrigue you. If you'd like to avoid unsolicited body contact, this startup should more than intrigue you.

Nigerian startup, BuyChat, launched their commerce-enabled chat app that connects traders with customers and allows for purchases to be made digitally. BuyChat helps users discover, chat and haggle with traders in the various markets in Lagos, pay for goods within the app and have them delivered to their homes. The app uses the user's location to match them with traders in their city while viewing inventory.


Balogun test provided the blueprint for the launch of BuyChat -connecting buyers and sellers on Whatsapp. BuyChat is BalogunMarket.ng’s expanded Whatsapp feature.

Olayinka Oluwakuse, founder of BuyChat, says in an interview:

"Really, we arrived in the market with empathy for the small time traders in Balogun Market and how the big e-commerce traders in Nigeria at that time ignored them and left them behind."

"We focused on the most basic level of communication that they used majorly and realised it was already their entry into the digital age."

 

BuyChat is currently focused on Lagos markets, but they have plans to expand to other Nigerian and African cities. The app is available for download on the Google Playstore.


Source:konbini.com

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