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Also serving Quilon
A Kollam business selling cashew kernels, coir mats or backwater stays now meets most customers on a phone screen first, and that screen should be its own.
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An example
A provisions distributor on the Big Bazaar axis starts the day before the shops open. Salesmen on the Kottarakkara and Karunagappally routes are already logging orders from small shops on the dealer app, each checked against live godown stock and the dealer's credit limit before it is accepted. At the godown, pick lists print in route order. A retailer in Anchal who prefers to order himself opens the same app on an old phone, sees his price list and outstanding, and places a repeat order. The owner, on the train from Kollam Junction, watches orders arrive and approves one that crosses a credit limit.
For years a Kollam exporter needed little more than an email address and a stall at a trade fair. That has changed. Overseas buyers check a supplier's website before replying. Domestic customers want cashew gift packs delivered. Travellers compare houseboats on their phones. Many local firms still depend on a brochure site made a decade ago, or on a page inside somebody else's marketplace.
Acube designs and builds websites, web applications and mobile apps for Android and iOS, including cross-platform apps in Flutter, and has done so since 2011 for 200+ clients. For a Quilon business the useful project is usually specific: a dealer ordering app for the Big Bazaar trade, a booking engine for Ashtamudi stays, a furniture catalogue for the wood cluster, or a field app that feeds ERPNext.
Case studies
Dumas Bakes N Meals Private Limited
Dumas Bakes N Meals — ERPNext Lifted On-Time Deliveries by Over 40%
EVM Wheels (part of the EVM Group)
EVM Wheels — 70% of Self-Drive Rentals Now Book Themselves Through the App
Kera Cabs
Kera Cabs — 55% of Bookings Moved Off the Phone and Into the App
Houseboat and homestay owners on Ashtamudi pay commission on nearly every booking because their own site cannot show availability or take a confirmed reservation. A booking site with live availability and online payment brings repeat and referred guests to you.
Distributors on the Big Bazaar axis take orders from small shops by call and WhatsApp, then retype them. A simple ordering app showing each dealer's price list, schemes and outstanding puts the order straight into the system.
Furniture makers and coir exporters send PDF catalogues that are out of date within a season. A web catalogue with sizes, finishes, specifications and an enquiry form, maintained by your own staff, gives buyers something current.
App projects run well at a distance once the groundwork is done face to face. We come to Kollam to meet the people who will use the product, agree screens on paper, and then build in short cycles from Kochi with a working version shared every few weeks. Launch, training and the first days of live use are supported on site.
Strategy and UX. The user, the journey and the success measure, defined before design.
Design. Wireframes and clickable prototypes you sign off.
Development in sprints. Built and demoed step by step, so you steer early.
Testing. Performance, security and testing on real devices.
Launch and support. App Store and Play Store submission handled, then monitoring and updates.
The scope and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
Backwater tourism
Booking sites and apps for houseboats, resorts and tour operators around Ashtamudi, Munroe Island and Thenmala, with availability calendars, seasonal rates, online payment and guest messages, connected to accounts so every booking is also a ledger entry.
Retail and wholesale trade
Online stores for Kollam retailers and ordering apps for wholesalers, tied to ERPNext stock and pricing so the app never sells what the godown does not have, with a companion app for delivery staff.
Wood and furniture
Catalogue and order-tracking apps for the wood cluster's workshops, with design galleries, custom-size enquiries and delivery scheduling, plus internal apps that record timber purchases and job progress on a phone.
It depends on who uses it and how often. Customers who visit occasionally are better served by a fast mobile-friendly website. Dealers, drivers or field staff who use it daily benefit from an app. We will say which your case needs before quoting.
With ERPNext, yes, directly through its API, which keeps stock, prices and orders in step. With Tally the options are narrower and usually involve scheduled syncs. We check this early, because an ordering app showing wrong stock does harm.
You do. On completion the code, designs and store listings are yours, published under your own developer accounts. We remain available for maintenance and new features, and most clients keep us on, but you are free to go elsewhere.
After a first conversation about who will use the app, what it must do and which systems it connects to, we agree the scope and send you a written quotation. The price, the deliverables and the timeline are fixed against that scope before any work starts, so nothing grows without your sign-off.
You speak to someone who does this work, not a call centre. They ask about who the app is for, what it has to do and which systems it must read and write. If it looks like a fit, we agree the scope and put it in writing, with the timeline, before any work starts. If it does not, we tell you.
Big Bazaar, Downtown Kollammarket
north–south bazaar axis of the old town with rice, spice and cloth traders; Pharma City behind the District Hospital groups pharma and surgical distributors
The old town's rice, spice and cloth traders and the pharma distributors behind the District Hospital are natural users of dealer ordering apps tied to stock and credit.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgKollam KSWTD ferry terminaltransport
State Water Transport jetty at Cutchery with ferries to Munroe Island and the backwater villages and the eight-hour Kollam–Alappuzha service
Ferries to Munroe Island and the eight-hour Alappuzha service put backwater travel in front of tourists who then look for houseboats and stays on their phones.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWood Processing Cluster, Kollam (Wood Empire consortium)cluster
MSE-CDP cluster with a common facility centre under MSME-DFO Thrissur; the district profile records 66 functional units, about 500 jobs and a diagnostic-study turnover of Rs 250 crore, with no exports.
Sixty-odd furniture and wood units sell entirely in the domestic market, per the district profile, so a catalogue and order app is their nearest route to buyers outside Kollam.
Source: dcmsme.gov.inPlaces and organisations are named for local context only. Acube Innovations is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
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