SundayKart - Making Sundays more enjoyable

Do busy work schedules and lazy weekends don’t allow you the time to step out and drive yourself to buy groceries, fruits and other local household items? Your house needs repair, but since you are not at home most of the time, you are not able to coordinate the timings with the repair person?

Well, this has become quite a common scenario today with increasingly buys schedules, changing lifestyles and boredom of the weekend duty of shopping for the house. Boom! A few amazing entrepreneurs took these problems into consideration and came up with an amazing solution of using the growing internet base to allow you time for everything yet not disturb priorities – SundayKart.

SundayKart , the brainchild of an NRI Satya Ponnuru, is an online e-commerce platform that connects customers with the local stores. Stores including those that sell groceries, flowers, fruits and also services like restaurants, food courts, repair services etc.

Launched in May 2015, this startup is the product of Akshita Lakshmi Technologies Pvt. Ltd.  Satya completed his BE from Manipal University in India and went abroad to pursue his masters is computers from University of Louisiana. He worked with companies like Sandisk, CISCO, Intel and Qualcomm and currently lives in California.  Satya is very passionate about startups and is a budding entrepreneur.

Sai Kalyan Kurapti, a startup enthusiast and  a computer engineering graduate from AIET, JNTUK,  is the COO SundayKart. The team consists of 20 fabulous people who have played a key role in the growth of the startup.

“ Today’s complex conditions of lifestyle lead to insufficient time to fulfil the needs and household necessities. Today, internet has become essential to human life. Because of busy lifestyles, every person wants to buy through internet. SundayKart invites local stores/services to be online and serve their loyal customers with zero capital.” says the proud founder, Satya.

SundayKart offers services like  –

• Groceries
• Restaurant food
• Sweets
• AC repair
• Mechanics
• Plumbers
• Carpenters
• Electricians
• Painters

Customers can order or choose services existing in their local areas and shall get the delivery at their doorstep. On the other hand, stores get the benefit of connecting with all kinds of customers living nearby – thus bringing in old and new customers.

How does the services work?

SundayKart has ensured customer ease and has made the process of ordering as simple as the below steps –

• Select items as per requirement
• Place your order by purchasing the items / book the service required
• Wait for the delivery/ execution of the service
• Once you place the order, the request reaches the store. After the store receives the order, the order is made ready and delivered to you. You can check the quality and then make the payment

To keep things simple SundayKart introduced a ‘franchise model’. According to this, the franchise can easily focus on marketing/sales & operations in their local areas/cities to make their business successful while the technology part will be taken care by SundayKart. This model allows potential and passionate people to start a SundayKart franchise in their respective area to build the market & start grabbing the stores and services along with local customers. SundayKart currently has franchisees  in Eluru & Bhimavaram.

Since the last 10 months, the firm has been operating from T-Hub, the most happening place for startups in the city.In just few month since inception, this startup got an opportunity to showcase their startup at the “DHI labs – NDTV GET IN THE RING” event held at Novotel Hyderabad.

They have also been appreciated by The Federation of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Chamber of Commerce of Industries- FTAPCCI and got shortlisted for NASSCOM 10,000 startups.

SundayKart is available to customers and stores through mobile apps, phone calls and desktop. Make the best use of this startup to save your time and energy to step out of the house to avail local services. With SundayKart, make your weekend a happier one.

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