Limeroad sellers can rejoice, you will be paid in a day, down from the existing month-long wait for your dues

After introducing various beneficial features for its sellers, Limeroad has brought yet another initiative due to the demonetisation. Sellers will now be paid 24 hours after the transaction. Earlier Limeroad would credit the money to the sellers on a monthly basis.

Founder CEO Suchi Mukherjee explains,

“This move will increase the vendor’s working capital cycle, thus empowering them to further scale their respective businesses,” she said, ecommerce industry in India, for whom timely payment has been a major concern.”

Sellers testify that the move has helped them in toto. According to Priyanka Kataria, a Jaipur-based vendor,

“It is helping in improving cash flows and furthering payments to fabricators and artisans, which will a great help during this cash crisis when we are seeing delayed payments from almost everybody. Our interest cost will get greatly reduced and we’ll be able to offer more affordable products to our customers, as we can negotiate better prices of raw material by doing faster payments to local fabricators.”

Seller incentives

Limeroad has always looked out for its sellers; particularly small sellers and handloom artisans. The fashion portal has extended support to its sellers including:

• Easy loans. The company teamed up with FlexiLoans to enable its sellers to get quick loans at low interest rates and flexible repayment.

• Promoting MP handicrafts. It tied up with the Madhya Pradesh Laghu Udyog Nigam to sell products made by MP artisans.

• Incentive penalty policy. In a bid to help maintain high standards, Limeroad introduced an incentive and penalty policy. Sellers get incentives for prompt delivery, and a penalty for delivery delays due to lack of stock, and increased returns.

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