Online Platform Offering Permanent Discounts: PayLess
Online Platform Offering Permanent Discounts: PayLess
Rabindra Dhungel
Whether it's having dinner at a luxury restaurant on Durbar Marg or choosing clothes at a fancy clothing store. How enjoyable it would be if the discount became your usual 'privilege'.
Can't you pay a thousand rupees a year for this special facility?
Roshan Rai, a 35-year-old discount platform from Bhojpur, PayLess is offering you this special discount in real life.
The PayLess was established on 1 Baisakh 2075 to provide permanent relief to the people. But fortunately, the PayLess is adding value to the overall e-commerce ecosystem by providing relief to the purchasing power of consumers who are overwhelmed by Covid 19.
Looking at the website, PayLess looks like an online marketplace for products. This is actually a discounting platform.
Anyone who becomes a member of the PayLess can get five to 40 percent discount at more than 400 product outlets in the Kathmandu Valley. For this, to subscribe to the service of PayLees, you have to pay Rs. 1000 annually and download the iOS and Android app of PayLess.
After downloading and installing the app of PayLess, the user can register in it and become a member.
For this, you can put your information, photo, contact number or date of birth in the app. Then there is the option to pay from which service.
However, those who have any doubts or dilemmas regarding the services of the company can meet the employees of the company by pressing the 'Request for Membership' button and register the consultation and services. PayLess members will receive a Privilege Discount Card from the company. Members will get a discount from the partner outlet if shown.
PayLess has partnered with more than 400 outlets for discounts. Of these, more than 130 are restaurants, clothing centers, spas, parlors, futsal, furniture, pet shops and pastries.
In all of these places, members of the PayLess can get discounts of five to 40 percent. Currently, the service of the payLess centered only in Kathmandu is being prepared to be made public in Pokhara as well.
"We create 15- to 35-second animated videos of our partner companies and promote them for free on Facebook and social media," said Roshan, "and those companies and outlets offer our customers discounts on services and goods."
According to Roshan, the PayLess, which currently has 1,000 members, expects to reach 900,000 users with a similar partnership with Citizen Bank.
"Customers of citizen Bank can also get discounts from our partners," says Roshan, "but we do not charge them a membership of Rs 1,000 a year." We also share a few percent of their debit and credit card swipes. '
Places can be viewed based on location and discount rates using the PayLess app. Users who use it will have to keep their location and internet on. After shopping or dinner, users will be able to get discount facility according to the discount rate.
Roshan told us that the service is offering a refund of up to Rs 10,000 per annum to the service recipients who can save up to Rs 10,000 per annum by getting a discount from the payLess.
The PayLess, which has been making discounts the main service of the business model, is now placing items of various brands and outlets in its PayLess Marketplace as an additional service.
"We have teamed up with Citizens, Global IME, Machhapuchhre and NMB to sell high-end products such as TVs and refrigerators from the platform," he said. Apart from this, we also collaborated with Wallet like Selpe, Khalti for the sale and distribution of vegetables during Covid.
"Even though the company was founded two years ago, it took about 10 months to build and partner the app," says Roshan us. "We only launched the service two months ago."
Although the company has just started, it expects to make a profit as it has about a thousand members.
Roshan, who has experience in running an IT company after completing his MBA, and three other co-founders and shareholders have so far invested Rs 2.6 million in the PayLess.
Roshan has other plans in the future to make discounts the main model of his business.
"We are now planning to launch the campaign on Baisakh 1. We are planning to give a 40-inch TV by lucky draw to buy goods from our platform and also give food vouchers. '
He also said that the PayLess would break its subscription charge and increase the fee by adding service half-yearly or fortnightly.
He also plans to bring subscription-based video streaming to Nepal in the coming days like Netflix.
A team of eight, including Managing Director Roshan Rai, is currently working at the PayLess, which is moving from individual to large scale to fulfill people's fascination with discounts.
Rabindra Dhungel
Whether it's having dinner at a luxury restaurant on Durbar Marg or choosing clothes at a fancy clothing store. How enjoyable it would be if the discount became your usual 'privilege'.
Can't you pay a thousand rupees a year for this special facility?
Roshan Rai, a 35-year-old discount platform from Bhojpur, PayLess is offering you this special discount in real life.
The PayLess was established on 1 Baisakh 2075 to provide permanent relief to the people. But fortunately, the PayLess is adding value to the overall e-commerce ecosystem by providing relief to the purchasing power of consumers who are overwhelmed by Covid 19.
Looking at the website, PayLess looks like an online marketplace for products. This is actually a discounting platform.
Anyone who becomes a member of the PayLess can get five to 40 percent discount at more than 400 product outlets in the Kathmandu Valley. For this, to subscribe to the service of PayLees, you have to pay Rs. 1000 annually and download the iOS and Android app of PayLess.
After downloading and installing the app of PayLess, the user can register in it and become a member.
For this, you can put your information, photo, contact number or date of birth in the app. Then there is the option to pay from which service.
However, those who have any doubts or dilemmas regarding the services of the company can meet the employees of the company by pressing the 'Request for Membership' button and register the consultation and services. PayLess members will receive a Privilege Discount Card from the company. Members will get a discount from the partner outlet if shown.
PayLess has partnered with more than 400 outlets for discounts. Of these, more than 130 are restaurants, clothing centers, spas, parlors, futsal, furniture, pet shops and pastries.
In all of these places, members of the PayLess can get discounts of five to 40 percent. Currently, the service of the payLess centered only in Kathmandu is being prepared to be made public in Pokhara as well.
"We create 15- to 35-second animated videos of our partner companies and promote them for free on Facebook and social media," said Roshan, "and those companies and outlets offer our customers discounts on services and goods."
According to Roshan, the PayLess, which currently has 1,000 members, expects to reach 900,000 users with a similar partnership with Citizen Bank.
"Customers of citizen Bank can also get discounts from our partners," says Roshan, "but we do not charge them a membership of Rs 1,000 a year." We also share a few percent of their debit and credit card swipes. '
Places can be viewed based on location and discount rates using the PayLess app. Users who use it will have to keep their location and internet on. After shopping or dinner, users will be able to get discount facility according to the discount rate.
Roshan told us that the service is offering a refund of up to Rs 10,000 per annum to the service recipients who can save up to Rs 10,000 per annum by getting a discount from the payLess.
The PayLess, which has been making discounts the main service of the business model, is now placing items of various brands and outlets in its PayLess Marketplace as an additional service.
"We have teamed up with Citizens, Global IME, Machhapuchhre and NMB to sell high-end products such as TVs and refrigerators from the platform," he said. Apart from this, we also collaborated with Wallet like Selpe, Khalti for the sale and distribution of vegetables during Covid.
"Even though the company was founded two years ago, it took about 10 months to build and partner the app," says Roshan us. "We only launched the service two months ago."
Although the company has just started, it expects to make a profit as it has about a thousand members.
Roshan, who has experience in running an IT company after completing his MBA, and three other co-founders and shareholders have so far invested Rs 2.6 million in the PayLess.
Roshan has other plans in the future to make discounts the main model of his business.
"We are now planning to launch the campaign on Baisakh 1. We are planning to give a 40-inch TV by lucky draw to buy goods from our platform and also give food vouchers. '
He also said that the PayLess would break its subscription charge and increase the fee by adding service half-yearly or fortnightly.
He also plans to bring subscription-based video streaming to Nepal in the coming days like Netflix.
A team of eight, including Managing Director Roshan Rai, is currently working at the PayLess, which is moving from individual to large scale to fulfill people's fascination with discounts.
