Overview
AgriComm Bazaar is an online B2B trading platform for agricultural commodities, cotton seeds and cotton bales to begin with. Their aim was to become the trusted technology partner in a corner of the market that had never had one.
Sphinx Solutions helped AgriComm Bazaar turn a business idea into a working digital exchange for agri commodity trading.
Technology has been reshaping manufacturing for years. Agricultural trading had stayed offline and traditional the whole time, and AgriComm wanted to be the thing that changed it.
They came to Sphinx Solutions with the idea of moving commodity trading out of the mandi and onto a platform. Our team went through it properly and turned it into something buildable that still answered the business case.
What we delivered let AgriComm raise customer satisfaction and average order value, make the process transparent, and give traders a reason to come back rather than a reason to phone someone.
AgriComm arrived with a niche idea: transparency in agri commodity trading. The market as it stood was run by brokers and middlemen, and nobody had built the alternative, so there was nothing to copy.
Automate the whole trading process for cotton seeds and cotton bales, in a way that suits the seller and the buyer at once, and break the barriers of traditional trading while you are at it.
The hard part was underneath. Multiple inventory locations and prices that move needed a backend that could carry both without falling over or lying to anyone.
The trade itself is only half a transaction. Delivery, unloading, invoices, a broker’s note, disputes, settlement and the payment reference all had to live on the same order, or the platform would just move the phone calls somewhere else.
And it had to be secure enough to carry agricultural trading across India, with no existing system to look at for how that should work.
Sphinx Solutions built AgriComm both a web app and a mobile app, aimed at standardising how cotton seeds and cotton bales are traded.
The point of all of it was to let traders work around the clock, skip the unnecessary calls, and get the best price on goods they can actually verify.
“The advanced digital platform gave our customers a strong foundation for continued growth.”
Tech stack
What people usually ask about AgriComm Bazaar and about building something like it.
It runs through the same stages as any serious build: conceptualisation and project planning, deep market research, design planning and prototyping, choosing the tech stack, front-end and back-end development, testing and deployment, then ongoing support and maintenance.
Anywhere from $5,000 to $50,000. There is no fixed rate: it depends on how complex the app is, the tech stack, the developer’s hourly rate, the features and the category it falls into.
A marketplace ends at the sale. A commodity exchange has to carry the whole trade afterwards: delivery and unloading, the broker’s cut, invoices, disputes, settlement and the payment reference, across stock held in several places at prices that move. Getting that right is most of the work.
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