Who We Are

Handgadi is a brand of Handbandi Retail Pvt Ltd.

We in Handbandi Retail Pvt Ltd, are solving the problems of street vendors by helping them 'socialize', in both general and literal sense, through our web app Handgadi.com. Handgadi is guided by our sense of purpose: To be Earth's most social, most seller-friendly, most customer-friendly, while being the most eco-friendly company

Problems faced by street businesses

Street vendors have remained left out of the eCommerce sector boom that India has seen over the past few years. They do not have any mechanism to enable them to participate easily and profitably in the eCommerce market in India.
They lack the knowledge to socialize their businesses, develop their own websites or do business on eCommerce marketplace platforms such as Amazon, Flipkart, Blinkit, etc.

Street businesses face mainly five challenges which are:

1. Can not afford the burden of enormous marketplace fees (including delivery fees, shipping charges, fixed fees, collection fees, and commissions charged by eCommerce platforms) further aggravated by 18% GST.
2. Facing wastage and product quality degradation problems due to lack of customers and proper storage facility.
3. Complexities of smartphone app-based processes which are very difficult to understand for the street vendors who are not so educated, many of them do not even have smartphones.
4. They are unable to reach all the needy customers in their area and are not able to keep a big inventory to serve large orders due to lack of capital and thus are not able to grow their businesses. And because of that customers also have to opt for more expensive products sold by shops and online eCommerce platforms.
5. Face adversity from the agents of local govt bodies due to improper infrastructure, lack of knowledge on the street vendor rights and regularly having to pay bribes to keep surviving in this business.

How do we solve these problems

We in Handbandi Retail Pvt Ltd, are striving to solve these problems of street vendors by helping them 'socialize', in both general and literal sense, through our web app Handgadi.com.
Please contact us to know more about our business model.

Join the biggest network of street businesses in India

We are creating a unique eCommerce platform built for the street business sector which has remained largely informal and unorganized but has massive growth potential.
Street vendors have done business in India for many ages and are an integral part of Indian society who not only deliver quality goods to customers' homes directly but also sell those goods and products at a very cheap rate.
Ecommerce platforms that are operating in the market charge enormous marketplace fees per product sale, such an additional burden on an already very low-profit margin is not affordable for the street vendors.

We offer the benefits of an eCommerce platform that is tailor-made for such local street businesses through a very low-priced monthly subscription model.
The data that we gather will continuously help us to create better machine learning models to predict and recommend efficient ways to do business that create more profitable outcomes for street vendors.

We invite you to join Handgadi - the biggest network of street businesses in India, to grow your business to its true potential and beyond.