You make it, somebody else puts their name on it
Jalandhar has made sports goods for a century — balls, hockey sticks, gloves, nets, fitness gear — and a large share leaves the city under other people's brands.
That work is steady, but it has a ceiling. The buyer owns the customer, sets the price and can move the order to another unit next season.
Your own online store changes one thing: you start owning customers. A school buying twenty footballs, an academy buying kit, a parent buying a bat — each one is a name and a number in your own records.
It does not have to be big at the start. Thirty products listed properly, sold to India, is enough to learn what your own brand is worth.
What the store does not do — no separate wholesale price list
The first question every manufacturer asks is whether dealers can see dealer rates while the public sees retail rates. They cannot.
There is one price per product, shown to everyone. There is no trade login, no customer-group pricing and no page hidden behind a login that only dealers can open.
What exists is the coupon engine with threshold rules. Give a dealer a code, and the discount applies from a quantity you set. It is public in the sense that anybody with the code can use it, and in practice that is how most sellers here run it.
The cleaner route is to keep the two businesses separate on purpose. Retail prices on the website, trade rates on WhatsApp and email where they already live. The site then does not undercut the brands you manufacture for.
Sell a specification, not a promise
Sports equipment is bought on numbers. A buyer knows the size, the weight and the standard they need.
Use fields, not paragraphs: size, weight, material, cover, stitching, core, age group, and the standard the product is made to. A football listed as "Size 5, 410–450 g, hand-stitched, 32 panel" answers the question a photo cannot.
Add photos of the stitching and the valve, not just the whole ball. Those close-ups are what a coach looks at before ordering twenty.
If you already make to a brand's standard, say what the standard is — you are allowed to describe your own work even when you cannot use their name.
Schools, academies and the order that repeats every year
Your best online customers are not individuals. They are schools, academies, clubs and district associations buying the same kit each season.
Build products for them: a set of ten footballs, a starter kit, a net with the right rope and size. Say what is inside the set and what it weighs.
Keep customer records so last season's order can be repeated in two taps, and write your dispatch time in days on every product. An academy planning a season needs a date, not "soon".
A GST invoice on every order is what makes a school's accounts clerk approve the payment without a phone call.
Heavy, bulky and shipped across India
Nets, mats, boxing bags and sets of balls are heavy or large. The courier charges by whichever is worse — actual weight or the size of the box.
Set packed dimensions and weight at product level so the charge is right on every order. For very large items, say on the page that they ship by transport and that you will confirm freight before dispatch.
On Pro and Elite, courier automation books pickups and syncs tracking to a page on your own domain, which for a school waiting on kit is the message that stops the follow-up calls.
The other Jalandhar, on the same store
The city also makes leather goods, hand tools and agricultural implements, and has a large retail market of its own. These can share one store in separate categories.
Keep the sections clearly divided so a coach and a farmer do not land on the same page. The search box at the top does the rest, since buyers of both types type a product name rather than browse.
Being found by a coach, not by a brand
Your buyers search the product and the specification — the item, the size, the standard, sometimes "manufacturer" or "wholesale". Almost no unit here has a page answering those words.
One page per product with the specification in the title, plus one page explaining what you manufacture and for how long, is the method. Clean URLs, editable meta titles and a sitemap that updates when you publish come with the first plan, and Google Analytics shows which products bring enquiries.
What it costs and what to send us
Starter is a one-time ₹4,990 — no monthly fee, no commission, and the code and database are yours. Pro and Elite add courier automation, partial COD and server-side tracking as volume grows.
We work from Indore over WhatsApp and call. Send thirty products with full specifications, photographs including close-ups of stitching and material, packed sizes and weights, your dispatch time in days, and your GST number. Thirty listed properly beat three hundred listed roughly.
Plans & Pricing
Hosting (~₹500–800/month) and a domain (~₹800/year) are paid directly to those providers. No markup, no per-order commission.
Complete store, Razorpay + COD, GST invoicing, admin panel.
Adds Shiprocket, Partial COD, abandoned cart, Meta Pixel, reviews.
Adds Meta CAPI, WhatsApp automation, advanced analytics, multi-store admin.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why should a Jalandhar manufacturer sell under its own name online?
Can dealers see wholesale rates and the public see retail rates?
What should a sports goods listing contain?
How should heavy items like nets and mats be priced for delivery?
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