Half your buyers are furnishing an office, not a home
The city runs on offices — corporate parks, serviced floors, a very large number of small companies taking a new space every quarter, and start-ups that grow from six people to thirty in a year.
Every one of those is a furniture order, and it behaves nothing like a household one. The person choosing is not the person paying. Quantity matters more than uniqueness. The decision is made from a screen in a meeting rather than in a showroom. And there is a date, because the office opens on the first.
Most furniture sites give that buyer nothing to work with — one photograph of a chair in a room and a single price. They leave and ring somebody who answered the questions.
You do not need a second website. You need a section, priced and described for quantity, that treats the buyer as somebody assembling a room rather than choosing a piece.
What an office buyer needs on the page
Four things, and they are all unglamorous.
Dimensions in a usable form — not just the chair, but the footprint of a workstation cluster, because they are fitting it into a plan. Quantity availability — whether you can supply twenty of the same thing now or in three weeks, since a mismatched set is a real problem in an office in a way it is not at home. Materials and warranty in writing, because somebody will be asked to justify the choice. And a lead time, stated rather than promised on a call.
All of it belongs as structured fields on the product rather than in prose, so a buyer comparing three options is comparing the specifications instead of the photography.
GST-compliant invoicing is included from the start, which matters more here than in retail — a company purchase needs a proper invoice with the right tax fields, and a hand-typed bill will be sent back.
What the store does not do — nothing compares side by side
The feature this buyer wants most is not there. There is no side-by-side comparison — a visitor cannot tick three chairs and see their specifications in one table.
They will do the comparison anyway, in three browser tabs or on a sheet of paper. What you can control is how easy you make that. Consistent attribute names across a range, so that every chair lists height, seat width, material and warranty in the same order, is what turns three tabs into a usable comparison.
Where a range genuinely has variants, set them up as variants of one product rather than as separate products. A buyer choosing between three fabrics on one chair is better served than one hunting across three near-identical listings.
It is a modest limitation and it is honest to name it. The rest of the build is the same — the code and database are yours, and nothing is hidden.
The order that arrives as a floor plan
A good number of office enquiries do not start with a product at all. They start with somebody sending a layout and asking what will fit.
The website is not going to answer that, and it should not pretend to. What it should do is make the enquiry easy to send and easy for you to act on — a clear way to reach you, and a catalogue with enough detail that the conversation starts from a shortlist rather than from nothing.
WhatsApp alerts matter here because these enquiries arrive outside shop hours, often from somebody who has been given the task at the end of a working day. The first substantive reply usually gets the shortlist.
Keep the household side of the business visible too. Many of these buyers furnish their own flat within a year of furnishing the office, and they come back to whoever made the office easy.
Delivery into a tower is its own job
Twenty chairs going into a seventh-floor office is not a delivery, it is an operation — a service lift that has to be booked, a security desk that needs names in advance, and a window when the building permits material movement.
None of that is your customer's fault and all of it becomes your problem if it is not discussed first. Ask at the order stage: which floor, is there a service lift, what are the permitted hours, and who is the contact on site.
Because checkout fields are configurable, those can be actual fields rather than a phone call. It is an afternoon of setup and it prevents the day where a truck sits downstairs for three hours.
For household orders in the same city, the ordinary version applies — the room it is going to, the floor, and whether there is a lift.
Money on an order this size
A twenty-chair order should never go out on plain cash on delivery. A refusal costs you a truck, a crew and half a day, and the goods come back to occupy space.
For company buyers, an advance and the balance against invoice is normal and nobody will object to it being stated on the site. Partial COD collects that advance online at checkout so it applies to everybody without an awkward conversation each time.
Made-to-order pieces deserve a larger advance, and the page should say so before the buyer reaches checkout. Somebody commissioning eight workstations in a specific finish understands why; somebody discovering it at the last step feels ambushed.
UPI and card work well here — a company paying online leaves a cleaner trail than cash, which is usually what their accounts department prefers anyway.
What it costs and how the build runs
Starter is a one-time ₹4,990 — no monthly fee, no commission, and the code and database belong to you. Pro and Elite add courier automation, partial COD and server-side tracking as volume grows.
We are based in Indore and work with Gurugram businesses over WhatsApp and call. To start, send product photographs, full dimensions including packed size, materials and warranty terms, lead times, and your delivery areas with charges. If you want floor, service-lift and site-contact fields at checkout, say so at the beginning — it is easier before launch than after.
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
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