Your storefront, on every phone nearby
Your photo, your hours, your delivery area and everything you stock, found by the people who live around you.
For shops in the Andaman Islands
Pados puts your counter online: your products, your prices, your own delivery. Neighbours order from you, you pack it, and they pay you directly. No commission, ever, on what you sell.
- Free to join
- No commission on sales
- Paid at your counter
Delivery apps take a share of every sale. Pados takes none. Your shop gets its own counter on every phone nearby, your customers pay you directly, and every rupee of the sale is yours.
How it works · one order
From their phone to your counter.
1 of 5 · Your neighbour
Finds your shop
Your shop shows up in the Pados app for people nearby, with your photo, your hours and what you sell.
Pados · Junglighat
Open near you
Your shop
Your shop
Grocery · 400 m · delivers
An example order
- Your neighbour: Finds your shop. Your shop shows up in the Pados app for people nearby, with your photo, your hours and what you sell.
- Your neighbour: Fills a basket. Real items at your prices. They choose to collect it, or to have you deliver it.
- You: Your phone rings. The order rings on your phone or the shop computer, even with Pados closed. Accept it and say how long you need.
- You: Weigh it, pack it. Loose vegetables, fish and meat are weighed after you accept. Within 10% of the estimate it goes straight on; more than that and the customer agrees first.
- You: Hand it over, get paid. They pay you by UPI or cash, at your counter or at their door. Pados uses 5 credits for a pickup and 10 for a delivery, and nothing for a cancelled order.
What your shop gets
Orders that ring
A new order rings on your phone and the shop computer, even with Pados closed.
A catalogue with the photos done
Pick what you sell from the Pados catalogue, sorted into shelves, and set your price. Add your own items too.
Loose items, weighed fairly
Vegetables, fish and meat are weighed after you accept. A big difference goes to the customer to agree first.
Your own riders
Add the person who delivers for you, hand them the order, and keep a record of every trip and what you paid.
Reports that add up
Sales, profit and your best sellers, by day, month and year.
Try your own numbers
What would Pados cost my shop?
Nothing to join and nothing a month. A completed order uses a few credits, a cancelled one uses none, and every shop gets 100 free credits each month, and they do not carry forward.
60
5 credits each, when completed
30
10 credits each, when completed
Credits used
600
100 from your 100 free credits, 500 bought
You would pay Pados
₹500a month
An illustration from the numbers you chose, not a promise of orders. 1 credit is ₹1. Pados takes no share of what you sell: the customer pays you.
What it costs a shop
Pados is software for shops. Shops buy credits to use it. No monthly fee, no joining fee, no listing fee, and no commission on what you sell.
Credits pay for orders. 1 credit = ₹1.
- Every month, free
- 100
- credits, every month. They do not carry forward.
- A pickup order completed
- 5
- credits
- A delivery order completed
- 10
- credits
For example, 100 credits could cover up to 20 pickup orders or 10 delivery orders in a month. 10 pickups use 50 credits, and the remaining 50 could cover 5 deliveries. The free credits are spent before any you have bought, and whatever is left of them on the last day of the month is not carried over. Credits you buy do not expire. These are illustrations, not promised order volumes.
Need more? Buy credits only when you want to
Starter
₹100
100 credits
Standard
₹300
300 credits
Growth
₹500
500 credits
Business
₹1,000
1,000 credits
Enterprise
₹5,000
5,000 credits
Or any amount from 50 to 50,000 credits. No bonuses or discounts: ₹100 buys 100 credits, ₹5,000 buys 5,000.
- Credits are used when an order is completed: collected by the customer (pickup) or delivered (delivery). A cancelled order costs nothing.
- Free credits are used first and expire at the end of the month. Bought credits carry forward and do not expire.
- The customer pays you directly. Pados does not collect customer payments, hold your money, or take a percentage of your sales.
- Credits are for your shop only and cannot be transferred or cashed out.
- Unspent bought credits are refunded if you close your account, as set out in the Cancellations & Refunds policy and the Merchant Agreement.
Who does what
Pados is a technology company. It does not buy, sell, stock, carry or deliver anything. Your order is a sale between you and the shop.
Pados provides
The technology
Software a shop runs its day on, and the checks that keep the app safe.
- The app and the shop's storefront
- Catalogue, stock and order screens
- Tools to record deliveries and pay riders
- Approving a shop before it goes live
- Approving products, so banned and illegal goods stay off
- Sales, profit and order reports
The shop does
The selling
Everything a shop already did before Pados, still done by the shop.
- Owns and sells the goods
- Sets its own prices and what it stocks
- Takes the payment, by UPI or cash, into its own account
- Accepts, packs and fulfils every order
- Chooses and assigns its own riders
- Answers for quality, weight, freshness and returns
So if something is wrong with an order — it is late, short, or not what you wanted — the shop is the one who can put it right, and the one responsible for doing so. Pados will give you the shop’s details and take up a complaint that goes unanswered. See Cancellations & Refunds and Grievance Redressal.
Questions
What is Pados?
Pados puts local shops online. Shoppers find the shops near them and order for pickup or delivery. Shops get a storefront, an orders screen and a menu, and run it all from their phone or computer.
Does Pados take a commission?
No. Customers pay the shop directly and Pados takes no cut of your sales. Shops use credits: each completed order uses a few, and a cancelled order uses none, and every shop gets free credits every month.
What does it cost to start?
Nothing. There is no joining fee and no monthly fee. Every shop gets 100 free credits a month, and they do not carry forward. That could cover up to 20 pickup orders or 10 deliveries. If you need more, you can buy credits from ₹100, and 500 or more in one purchase gets 10% added. These are illustrations, not promised order volumes.
Who delivers?
The shop. Pados has no riders of its own: a shop that delivers adds its own rider (the owner can be the rider), assigns the work and pays them. Pados records the deliveries. A shop can also offer pickup only.
If something is wrong with my order, who do I go to?
The shop. The shop is the seller: it owns the goods, set the price, took your money and packed the order, so it is the one who can put it right and the one responsible for doing so. Pados is the technology the shop runs on and is not a party to the sale. Pados gives you the shop's name, address and phone number, keeps a record of what you ordered and were charged, and if the shop will not engage, takes up your grievance.
Does Pados check what shops sell?
Yes, and it is the one thing Pados does hold itself to. A shop is approved before it goes live, its trade decides which shelves it may use, and products are approved so that banned and illegal goods stay off the app. What Pados does not do is own the stock, set the price, weigh it, pack it or carry it — that is the shop.
How do I register my shop?
You register with the code of the Pados Growth Partner who covers your area. Then give your shop's details and location. The partner approves it, and it goes live.
Where is Pados available?
In any area that has a Growth Partner, and we are adding areas one at a time. If you do not have a code yet, write to us and we will tell you whether your area is open.
Shopping, not selling?
Order from the shops on your street with the Pados app.
Open your shop on Pados
- 1
Get your area's code
From the Pados Growth Partner who covers your area. No code yet? Write to us and we will tell you if your area is open.
- 2
Sign up your shop
With a Google account: your shop's name, location, hours, and whether you deliver.
- 3
Pados checks, you go live
We approve your shop and what it may sell, and neighbours can order from you.
