ABOUT US
How does Sky.Garden work?
SkyGarden is an ecommerce platform built for African businesses.
Business owners that want to use the platform download the Sky.Garden Merchant
App from Google Play or the App Store and set up an account. All they need to provide are their personal
details, unique name of their shop and other shop details such as opening hours,
location and mobile money (MPesa) phone number
The Sky.Garden merchant app is a fully stocked inventory management system that
business owners use to upload products, specify price points, stock levels, variants and much more.
Once products are uploaded they immediately appear on the customer marketplace which is a website
under the URL www.sky.garden. Each business owner gets a unique link for both their web shop and
each of their products that they can share to their networks directly from the app.
In the event that a customer makes a purchase for product on the platform,
Sky.Garden’s platform will ensure end-to-end fulfillment of the order. The order will be
dispatched through one of our delivery partners which enables us to accomplish same day
deliveries across urban areas. After a product is successfully delivered, the seller is paid
immediately through mobile money (MPesa).
There are no entry costs or registration fees with Sky.Garden, there are also
no monthly fees. Sky.Garden works on commission, and takes a service fee of 8% on every transaction.
As business owners are uploading their products, there are 2 fields for price - ‘Your Prices’ & ‘Sales
Price’. ‘Your Price’ is the amount of money you will get from the sale of an item. While ‘Sales Price’
is the amount the customer will pay for the item, which includes Sky.Garden’s 8% service fee.
That way, sellers can very easily put in how much they want to make from the sale of an item minus
Sky.Garden’s 8%.
What kinds of merchants does Sky.Garden attract?
Sky.Garden attracts business owners selling everything from mobile phones &
electronics to fashion, household items, decor, art and even safety equipment.
What problem is Sky.Garden solving?
The state of E-commerce in Kenya caters exclusively to the top tiers of the economic pyramid, which leaves little room for individuals and
businesses that exist within the lower segments of the economy to reap the benefits offered by online transactions.
Many of the business that you find running in informal marketplaces don’t have a sophisticated eCommerce platform that they can use to expand their geographic reach. Most of the platforms that they have access to are littered
with fraudulent cases that makes it hard for them to present themselves and their products as legitimate.
Another major problem businesses face is distribution. They may get a potential customer that wants a delivery made to them, however the cost and headache of make it happen have driven many business owners to only rely on walk-in customers. Some business owners don’t have physical
stores as well, and spend lots of time and money dashing from location to location picking and dropping products.
With Sky.Garden business owners have the benefit having their
products delivered for them by our trusted delivery partners, at absolutely no cost to them
