You are here. On a small (few-paged) website out of the millions out there. And you're probably thinking, "what is this all about?". In this article, we explain exactly that - along with how to make the best use of The Price Marketplace platform.
Let's start by going over the main pages. Our platform has the following pages: Home, Prices, About, Blog, Contact, and Stores. Certain other pages have a locked or coming soon tag, indicating that they are not yet available for accessing.
Home: The first page you land on when visiting our platform. This page has relevant information on actions you can take and how you can interact with the features and services here. It also bears our FAQ section that summarizes what our platform is about, how it works, and how to contribute.
Prices: Straight out the most important page on our platform. It features a dashboard of quick highlights and deep insights, as well as visual map locations of markets and a news section. All food item, price and market updated by users are avaialble on this page,
About: Here, you'll find out what drives us and what our plans for the future are.
Blog: You are currently reading this on one of our blog-detail pages. Well, except you came across a screenshot of it. Look out for the latest market or tech information and updates to our product or policies here.
Contact: Every good platform leaves a channel of communication - and so do we. Our contact page displays links to our handles on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Chat with us at anytime.
Stores: This page lists out every foodstuff store, mart or supermarket registered with us. Use this to find releavant stores close to you.
Now that we've listed out the different pages, it's time to answer the question of how you can interact with our platform. The various ACTIONS you can take are:
Add Prices: This feature allows retailers and every day customers to add the prices at which they buy and sell staple foods in their locality. Just be sure that your price updates are recent and accurate.
Partner with Us: Store owners and foodstuff retailers or vendors have this one. They can use this feature to register their interest in listing their businesss on our platform. We will require some information to verify that they exist before officially partnering with them.
Download CSV: Are you into research or policy-making? We've provided a one-click button for downloading our database of prices and markets - no questions asked. We hope this helps non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and government agencies make better policies as far as consumer protection, price regulation and monitoring is concerned.
The above shows how our platform DELIBERATELY carters to everyday Nigerians who go foodstuff shopping, businesses concerned with selling food items, and ministeries, agencies or NGOs who have a heart for the people. Our goal remains price transparency and regulation with the aim of addressing the huge discrepancies on the ground as well as checking the actions of food market actors.
We hope you enjoy our product and we are always available to hear your feedback and suggestions.
Extra: Use the search feature to find a detailed list of specific food items with their prices and the markets and states where they were listed in.