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The same order, a better deal on both sides of the counter.

Most platforms improve one side of a transaction by taking from the other. Saanjha is built so the buyer’s saving and the seller’s margin come from the same place — the cost that everybody else is re-paying on every order.

If you’re buyingIf you’re selling

Four different bets

These are not four versions of the same thing.

Each model made a different bet about what a household actually wants. Understanding the bet explains every difference in the tables below.

Quick commerce

Owns inventory in dark stores near you and re-pays the last mile on every order. That is what buys ten-minute delivery, and what makes it expensive to run.

E-commerce marketplaces

Aggregate national supply so almost anything is available to almost anyone. Distance is the trade: selection is huge, the seller is a stranger, and delivery takes days.

Managed home services

Standardise a job — a fixed rate card, a vetted professional, the platform accountable for the outcome. Consistency is the product, and the commission pays for it.

Saanjha

Aggregates demand instead of inventory. Thirty households’ small orders become one lot worth buying, from a seller those households can actually place.

If you’re buying

What changes for the person paying.

Speed is the one thing Saanjha does not compete on. Every other row is where planning a day ahead starts to pay — and each one says how, not just what.

For a household buying goods or booking a service
AttributeSaanjhaQuick commerceE-commerce marketplaceManaged home services
Optimised forBuying smarter when you can plan a littleHow: A trip is planned around a cutoff rather than dispatched on demand, so what you give up is a little time — not a subsidy somebody has to fund.Getting it to you in minutesSelection — almost anything, from anywhereA standardised job, booked in a few taps
Who sets the priceThe local seller, visible next to others nearbyHow: Saanjha owns no inventory, so it has nothing to price. The seller sets it, and you see it beside other sellers nearby.The platform, from its own inventoryThe seller, competing mainly on priceThe platform, as a national rate card
Who you are actually buying fromA shop or neighbour you can walk toHow: Membership is tied to where you live, so the sellers you see are ones with a real address within range of it.A dark store you cannot visitA seller you will never meetA professional the platform assigns
What the delivery costsShared across one run for a whole communityHow: One run serves a whole community, so the distance, time and vehicle are paid once and split — not re-paid on every order.Re-paid on every single orderShipping, or absorbed into the priceTravel time built into the rate
When something goes wrongThe person who sold it — plus a dispute processHow: Payment happens at handover between two people in the same building, so there is a person to ask before there is a process to follow.In-app supportIn-app support and a returns windowIn-app support, with the platform accountable
What builds your trustVerification, plus neighbours who already used themHow: Verification establishes who a business is; your community’s own history with them does the rest. Neither is a star average from strangers.The brand of the platformStar ratings from strangersThe platform’s training and vetting
Why this costs the seller nothing

If you’re selling

What changes for the shop or the professional.

This is the half of the comparison most marketing skips, and it is the half that decides whether a neighbourhood marketplace has anything to sell you.

For a local store, service provider or delivery partner
AttributeSaanjhaQuick commerceE-commerce marketplaceManaged home services
Cut taken from a saleNothing is deducted — the buyer pays you directlyHow: The buyer pays you directly. There is no moment at which Saanjha holds the money, and therefore no moment at which it could take a cut.15–18% take rate before discounts, plus fulfilment, storage and listing fees0% referral fee under ₹1,000; 2–25% above, plus fixed, collection and shipping fees, then 18% GST28.3% of the service value as standard commission
Who holds the money firstNobody. UPI to your own ID, or cash at handoverHow: No escrow and no settlement cycle, because payment and handover happen at the same moment.The platformThe platform, until a settlement cycleThe platform, paid out after the job is rated
Who sets your priceYouHow: There is no rate card and no buy box, so nothing ranks you by who discounted hardest.The platformYou — but the format rewards the lowest priceThe platform
Whose customer is itYours. A customer already yours is not resold to youHow: A household you have already served is recorded against you, so their next order is a repeat rather than a lead you buy again.The platform’sThe platform’sThe platform’s
Cost of being on the shelfNoneHow: There is no shelf to rent. Your listings sit in the communities you already serve.Listing fees per SKU, per statePer-order fees whether or not you profitBuying kit and consumables from the platform
How you growInvite your own customers with your QR codeHow: Your QR turns someone already standing in your shop into a member of your community, and the join is attributed to you.Pay for placementPay for ads and chase the buy boxAccept more jobs at the platform’s rate
Who funds a discountYou — so you set the terms and can stopHow: Offers are seller-funded by design, so the value, the conditions and the stop date are yours.Platform-funded, and it movesUsually you, inside a platform eventPlatform-set promotions
The three choices behind this column

Figures as published, checked 18 August 2026, and cited in full below. Fee schedules change several times a year — treat these as a snapshot, not a running total.

The mechanism

Why both sides can win at once.

A better price for the buyer usually has to come out of the seller. On Saanjha it comes from three structural choices instead.

  • The cost being saved is a fixed cost, not a margin. Distance, time, a minimum lot size and a vehicle do not scale with quantity. Split across thirty households they nearly disappear — which is why the saving does not have to be funded by anybody.
  • The platform never holds the money. Payment goes from buyer to seller directly, by UPI or cash at handover. There is no float, no settlement wait, and no commission that could be quietly deducted from a sale the platform never touched.
  • The customer stays the seller’s. A household a shop already serves is recorded as that shop’s, not recycled back to it as a paid lead. Repeat business is the reward for doing the job well, rather than something to be bought again each month.
How payments actually work

Being straight about it

Where the other models are better.

Each of these is better than Saanjha at the thing it was built for. If what you need is on this list, use them — we would.

You need it in ten minutes

Quick commerce genuinely solves this, and Saanjha does not try to. A community purchase has a cutoff and a trip; if the requirement is “now”, that is the wrong tool.

Nobody nearby stocks it

A national marketplace will have it and Saanjha will not. Hyperlocal supply is the whole point of Saanjha and also its hard limit.

You want one company accountable

Managed services platforms take responsibility for the outcome and back it with their own guarantee. Saanjha connects you to an independent local business — verification tells you who they are; it is not a warranty on their work.

You want it to be identical everywhere

A national rate card and a trained workforce deliver consistency across cities. Saanjha is deliberately local, which means your neighbourhood’s selection is not the next one’s.

What we are not claiming

The limits of this page.

  • No savings figure. Saanjha is in private pilot. We will publish real numbers when they are commercially validated, and not before.
  • No claim that Saanjha is free forever. Nothing is deducted from a sale today, and the model cannot deduct from money it never holds. Where Saanjha charges for something in future it will be billed openly and separately — never skimmed.
  • No claim about anyone’s intentions. Every figure here is published by the company itself or by a named third party, and linked below. The rest is how each model is structured, which you can check in their own terms.
  • Not everything described is live everywhere. Saanjha rolls out community by community. Availability differs by area.

Sources

Where these figures come from.

Saanjha is not affiliated with any of the companies named on this page. Product and company names are the trade marks of their respective owners, used here only to identify the models being compared. Something out of date or wrong? Write to us and we will correct it.

See it from your side of the counter.

The comparison is the short version. Each page below is the long one.

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