Zalon is a technology-driven B2B platform where -
A) Salon owners can:
1. Procure all the authentic beauty products, consumables & tools from different brands and suppliers and get free doorstep delivery reliably.
2. Manage Inventory, staff recruitment, attendance, payroll & commission calculation, Customer Relationships, Billing, WhatsApp marketing, etc.
B) End Customers can:
1. Search for the best salons in their neighborhood
2. Read Salon's reviews, check digital catalogs for each salon, compare prices
3. Book online appointments at their favorite salons and get notified of the latest offers and discounts.
4. Buy authentic retail products from prominent brands at the best prices with reliable delivery.
C) Brands can:
1. Get analytics and insights on trending products region-wise.
2. Optimize the expenses on their product's supply chain and rely on Zalon 's sales force to market new products.
3. Rely on Zalon 's mobile application for promoting new offerings, latest discounts, and on-demand products e-trainings.
4. Connect with Salon owners through Zalon 's mobile app.
Zalon is to provide 360 help and support Salons to ease out their daily operations be it Procurement, Inventory management, Staff recruitment, attendance & payroll, Commission calculation, Customer Relationship Management, etc., or Digital Marketing through social media, etc.
Startup Description
Technology sits at the core of Zalon to make all day-to-day operations easy to track for all key stakeholders and clients (salons).
Mission – To simplify the salon ecosystem with modern digitization techniques using technology.
Key stakeholders for the salon ecosystem are Salon owners, Beauty professionals, Brands, & End Customers. Key workflows while operating salons are Procurement, doorstep delivery of quality beauty products & consumables, Inventory management, Staff recruitment & management, Customer Relationship Management, Billing, Commission calculations, Salons Digital Marketing, etc.
Zalon is on a mission to digitize the Salon industry’s workflows to make it easier to operate salons pan India using SAAS-based mobile applications, to bring ease and comfort to each of the stakeholders’ day-to-day challenges.
Vision – To be one one-stop end-to-end solutions provider for all stakeholders in the Salon Industry across India. All the salon owners pan India can now focus on giving the best customer services to their customers, and trust Zalon with confidence for providing solutions for the rest of the challenges to operating their salons, as Zalon is bringing expertise to solve these common challenges faced by Salons with the industry’s best-followed practices & procedures along with latest technology driven mobile applications.
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Business Model
Revenue Model: It is a framework for generating financial income and identifies the sources of revenue for a product or service.
The revenue model would be a combination of a few revenue streams:
1. Margin earned from trading professional grade salon products, furniture, tools, etc., getting bulk discounts for purchasing bulk quantities for 1000s of salons, who trust Zalon for their procurement needs.
2. Monthly fees for providing SAAS software to salons to manage their operations
3. Salon consulting fees: where the Zalon team consults with salon owners to advise them and provide personalized solutions for each salon’s problems like how to grow the salons, how to keep hygiene, how to keep staff engaged and happy, how to retain customers, how to acquire new customers.
4. Digital Marketing subscription fees: To manage salons’ social media pages like Instagram, Facebook, etc, Zalon charges a small monthly fee where the Zalon team works with salon owner to market their latest offerings, promotions, and discounts.
5. Staff Recruitment Services: Zalon plans to provide beauty professional recruitment services for salons. As part of this initiative, Zalon has been building a huge dataset of all beauty professionals, which can be shared with Salon owners so they can make a well-informed decision on which professional to hire for their salon. This will be a paid service.
Customers
based in
India
Business
Modal Type
Mobile App
Type of
Sales
B2B, B2B2C
Competitors
Booker, Fresha, Zenoti, BuyUMe
Teams
Sunil Khatri
COO and Co-Founder
Sourabh Lodha
CTO & CoFounder
Abhiishekk Raj Pandey
Co-Founder & CEO
Tell us a bit about how founding team knows
each other.
Through Networking Sessions, Panel Discussions and Workshops, Q&A Sessions and Interactive Discussions, Social Events, Online Platforms. Founders may strike up conversations with one another during these sessions, leading to potential collaborations or partnerships. Founders with similar interests or complementary skills may attend these sessions and connect over shared passions or challenges. Founders may connect over common interests or experiences raised during these discussions. Its strong.
Why did you decide to start this
company?
During covid we got too much time to think and spent with ourselves, that's the time we come up with the problem of salon owners who are facing issues in running the salons from inventory to software.
Are all the founders full-time on this
project?
Yes
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