Meesho provides a complete set of mobile tools for small businesses in India to manage ecommerce on Facebook and Whatsapp. ^[1] It was founded by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal. ^[1]

A Meesho profile can be made by using the mobile app by linking your business’s Facebook page. Meesho automatically creates an online store for you that can be managed from Meesho’s mobile app. You can update products, edit the store, manage orders etc. Sellers can share these links on Facebook and Whatsapp with customers. These customers can easily browse through the product collection and initiate a chat anytime with the seller. Even the sellers get realtime updates of the shop visitors and the products they are visiting and even they can start a chat on WhatsApp with these customers right from the app. When the sales is closed, the seller can share a payment link on WhatsApp and accept payments by all major methods in India Credit Card/ Debit Card and Wallets.

Sellers can keep their customers updated with new products on Facebook Messenger using Meesho’s chatbot automated updates.

Meesho is different than Shopify in that it caters to an Indian market rather than just American.

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