Retail & Supermarkets

The business OS for retail and supermarkets.

Inbox, voice, loyalty, payments, and back office in one place—built for how Kenyan retailers actually run: WhatsApp orders, M-Pesa checkout, and stock that stays honest at the till.

+12%

Gross margin improvement

Pilot stores avg.

KES 3.2M

In-chat revenue / quarter

Multi-branch retailer

-67%

Weekly ordering time

The challenge

Customers expect instant answers. Margins cannot wait.

Shoppers message on WhatsApp while your team is on the floor. Carts stall on stock questions; promos go out blind; finance finds out about shrink late.

High abandonment when replies are slow
Promo and shelf price drift erode margin
Ordering and receiving still live in spreadsheets
Peak weekends break every manual process
The Qallio approach

Independent by choice. Unstoppable by design.

Qallio gives independent retailers the same connected stack chains take for granted—without a six-month POS rip-and-replace.

Qallio Style Assistant
Online

From first message to measurable outcome.

Walk a high-intent shopper from DM to paid order: inventory-backed answers, M-Pesa checkout, and a clean trail for your team.
WhatsApp · Instagram DM · Web chat
1

Customer reaches you

Shopper messages your verified WhatsApp or Instagram after seeing a product on Stories.

2

Agent + knowledge

Agent answers sizing, care, and return questions from your catalog KB and FAQs.

3

Workflows & tools

Live stock check via Shopify/WooCommerce; draft order and M-Pesa or card checkout link.

4

Human handoff

Bulk or B2B requests route to a store associate with full chat context.

5

Supervisor view

Inbox + dashboard show conversion, revenue attributed to thread, and open escalations.

Example: Kitenge dress checkout on WhatsApp

Realistic flow for a Nairobi fashion retailer running Shopify — customer pays via M-Pesa.

Open

Customer asks for size M in stock; agent confirms qty from Shopify in under a second.

Ground

Fit guidance pulled from your approved product notes—no generic advice.

Act

Creates draft checkout; customer pays KES 3,500 via M-Pesa STK push; receipt + tracking fires.

Escalate

Custom alteration request → ticket to alterations desk with transcript.

Prove

Supervisor sees closed-won from WhatsApp, average handle time, and policy hits.

What you get

Modules that work together

Conversational commerce

  • Catalog and stock-aware answers on WhatsApp
  • M-Pesa checkout in the same thread
  • Loyalty earn and redeem at payment

Protect margin

  • Catch cost and promo mistakes before checkout
  • Shrink and movement visible in dashboards
  • Campaigns tied to real basket data

Run the back office

  • Orders, products, and suppliers in one workspace
  • Industry labels your staff already use
  • Reporting in KES for owners and finance

Stop letting sales slip through the DMs.

Walk through a retail flow on WhatsApp—from browse to M-Pesa paid.