Skydropvec-01warehousing
No Indian warehouse
Shipping every order from Dhaka means each parcel crosses a border on its own. Transit takes weeks, and a return crosses back — costing more than the sale was worth.
invite-only betabd → in corridor
Your India operation,
running without you.
Skydrop holds your stock in an Indian warehouse, confirms every COD buyer by phone before anything ships, and dispatches through our courier partners. You keep selling — the operation behind it is ours to run.
- < 3 weeks
- to first dispatch
- < 15%
- RTO we aim for
- ₹0
- Indian entity
corridor mapdac → in metrosillustrative
origin
DAC · Dhaka
warehouse
India
couriers
Delhivery + 1
stock held
Indian warehouse
every COD order
Confirmed by phone
dispatch
Courier API
COD money
Remitted to BD
CALL_CONFIRMEDbuyer verified by phone
STOCK_RECEIVEDbin-level put-away
ORDER_PICKEDFIFO batch allocation
ORDER_PACKEDmanifest attached
AWB_GENERATEDCourier API
DISPATCHEDhanded to courier
NDR_ROUTEDunreachable — held, not shipped
OUT_FOR_DELIVERYwebhook tracking
DELIVEREDCOD collected
RTO_INSPECTEDrestock or write-off — your call
REMITTEDINR → BDT settlement
CALL_CONFIRMEDbuyer verified by phone
STOCK_RECEIVEDbin-level put-away
ORDER_PICKEDFIFO batch allocation
ORDER_PACKEDmanifest attached
AWB_GENERATEDCourier API
DISPATCHEDhanded to courier
NDR_ROUTEDunreachable — held, not shipped
OUT_FOR_DELIVERYwebhook tracking
DELIVEREDCOD collected
RTO_INSPECTEDrestock or write-off — your call
REMITTEDINR → BDT settlement
SEC 02diagnostics6 failure points
Selling into India fails six ways.
Run the check on a solo India launch and every subsystem throws the same class of error: you need an operation you do not have, and each piece of it is a prerequisite for the next.
scope
BD seller · first year in India
corridor, on your own
High friction
time to first dispatch
6+ months
capital before order one
₹50 lakh+
cluster 01 // the building
2 audited / 2 failedweeks in transit
vec-02operations
No warehouse operation
Receive, put away, pick, pack, dispatch, take returns back in. That is a staffed building running a real stock system, not a spare room and a spreadsheet.
cluster 02 // the contracts
2 audited / 2 failedvec-03carrier access
No courier contract
Indian carriers sign Indian entities. Without one you cannot get an account at all — and rates are set against volume you have not shipped yet.
vec-04money rail
No way to get paid
COD is collected in rupees, in India. Getting it back to Bangladesh needs Indian banking, GST-compliant invoicing, reconciliation against what the courier actually paid, and a remittance route.
cluster 03 // the customer
2 audited / 2 failedvec-05cod confirmation
No one calls the buyer
India is a COD market, and an unconfirmed COD order is a guess. Ship it blind and a large share comes straight back — you pay to send it, pay to return it, and the goods arrive used or not at all.
vec-06support
No support in Hindi
Your customer is in India and expects to be answered in their own language, within the working day. From Dhaka, in English, on a different clock, that does not happen.
diagnosis
Every one of those is solvable. Solving all six, in order, before you have sold anything — that is the part that stops people. Skydrop is the six already built.
SEC 03flight plan4 phases · end to end
Four phases, end to end.
One corridor, instrumented the whole way — from the first consignment you send us to the COD landing back in your account.
you operate
phase 00 · you sell
- phase 0101/04
Ship your stock once
You send inventory to our Indian warehouse — one consignment, not one parcel per order. We count it in and it becomes sellable stock you can watch.
- Bin-level put-away
- Batches, FIFO/FEFO
- Append-only stock ledger
- phase 0202/04
We phone every buyer
An order is not dispatched because it was placed. Our call desk reaches the customer first and confirms the order, the address and the amount they will pay.
- Every attempt logged
- No answer → re-queued
- Unreachable → held, never shipped
- phase 0303/04
Pick, pack, dispatch
Confirmed orders are picked against the batch they were reserved from, verified at the pack bench by scanning what goes in the box, and booked with a courier.
- Scanned into the box
- Waybill via courier API
- Refused lane → second courier
- phase 0404/04
Delivered, or properly returned
Tracking runs off courier scans. What comes back is opened and inspected — and the COD that was collected is remitted to you in Bangladesh.
- Public tracking · EN + HI
- Returns inspected per item
- COD remitted to BD
SEC 04instrumentsbuilt for one lane
Built specifically for the BD → IN corridor.
Not a general aggregator with a corridor bolted onto the side. Every instrument below exists because this particular lane demands it.
lane
Dhaka → Indian metros
signature instrument // cod call deskruns before every dispatch
Every COD order is confirmed by a person, on the phone.
Not an SMS nobody reads and not an automated voice call. An agent rings the customer, confirms what they ordered and what they will pay, and logs the outcome. No answer and it goes back in the queue; still unreachable at the attempt cap and the order is held rather than shipped on a guess.
what we aim for
<15%
RTO rate · our target
commonly seen
40%+
COD shipped without a confirmation call
outcome logillustrative
> attempt 1 · ringingCONFIRMED
> attempt 1 · no answerRE-QUEUED
> attempt 2 · ringingCONFIRMED
> attempt 1 · busyRE-QUEUED
The outcomes above are the real vocabulary the call desk records against an order — confirmed, re-queued, or held at the attempt cap. The rows are an example, not a live feed.
supporting instruments
6 systemsA real stock system
Bins, batches, an append-only ledger and low-stock alerts — so what the screen says is on the shelf is what is on the shelf.
More than one courier
Booked through the courier API. A lane the first one will not carry is re-routed to the second; if both refuse, a person places it by hand.
Returns you can see
Every returned parcel is opened and inspected at the warehouse. Restock or write off is your call, item by item, and the stock moves to match.
The numbers that matter
Confirmation rate, NDR rate, RTO rate, dispatch times — reported per order, not summarised into one figure that hides the bad week.
Answered in Hindi
Your customers reach a desk that speaks their language, on their clock — for the confirmation call and for whatever they ask afterwards.
You stay in Bangladesh
No Indian office, no Indian staff, no GST registration to begin. Stock is held and dispatched under ours until you outgrow that.
SEC 05manifest3 routes compared
Skydrop, on your own, or on a marketplace.
The same eight questions asked of all three routes. Where a figure is an estimate rather than something we measure, it says so.
basis
typical BD seller · category agnostic
Skydrop
this service
- Time to first dispatch
- < 3 weeks
- Capital before order one
- Pay per order
- Indian entity required
- Not to start
- COD confirmed by phone
- Every order
- Stock held in India
- Our warehouse
- Returns handling
- Inspected, per item
- Brand and customer data
- Yours
- Money back to Bangladesh
- Built in
Do it yourself
own Indian entity
- Time to first dispatch
- 6+ months
- Capital before order one
- ₹50 lakh+
- Indian entity required
- Yes
- COD confirmed by phone
- Build the desk
- Stock held in India
- Lease and staff it
- Returns handling
- Yours to solve
- Brand and customer data
- Yours
- Money back to Bangladesh
- Arrange it yourself
Marketplace
sell on theirs
- Time to first dispatch
- 1–2 months
- Capital before order one
- Low
- Indian entity required
- Varies
- COD confirmed by phone
- No
- Stock held in India
- Their terms
- Returns handling
- Limited visibility
- Brand and customer data
- Theirs
- Money back to Bangladesh
- Marketplace terms
sec 06parcel lookupno sign-in needed
Already expecting a parcel?
Enter the waybill number from your delivery message. The tracking page reads in English and हिंदी.
SEC 07queries6 answered
Questions we are asked often.
If yours is not here, write to us — a real answer beats a page that hedges.
Sellers registered in Bangladesh. Skydrop is invite-only through the beta — write to us with a little about your store and we reply within one working day.
Export-eligible goods with enough margin to absorb shipping and the occasional return: apparel, handicrafts, beauty, packaged snacks. Anything heavy, fragile or restricted at the border is a poor fit, and we will say so rather than let you find out with a consignment.
COD is collected in rupees in India and credited to your ledger as the courier settles it, net of the charges for those orders. It is then remitted to you on a schedule that suits you. GST-compliant invoicing is handled on our side.
Every returned parcel is received and opened at our warehouse and inspected item by item. You decide whether each unit is restocked or written off, and the stock ledger moves to match — so what you are told you own is what is actually on the shelf.
Not to start. We are the operational layer: stock is held and dispatched under ours. If you grow to the point where your own Indian entity makes more sense, we help you move to it rather than holding you there.
A flat delivery fee per order, agreed with you before you ship anything, plus a fee on a parcel that has to come back. There is no Indian company to register and no warehouse to lease. The exact figures depend on what you are sending, so they are settled when we talk rather than guessed at on this page.
sec 08 // clearance
Ready to ship into India?
Tell us what you sell and where you are today. We read every one of these ourselves and reply within one working day.
- to first dispatch
- Under three weeks
- up front
- Your stock only
- to register in India
- Nothing