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Quick Commerce Data Scraping Services

Collected per pincode, because that is the only level q-commerce exists at.

Quick commerce data scraping is the automated collection of pricing, availability and assortment data from rapid-delivery platforms operating dark stores — captured per delivery pincode or zone, because catalogue, price, stock and delivery promise all vary by the micro-market a shopper is standing in.

Quick commerce has no national price and no national catalogue. Two pincodes four kilometres apart can differ on assortment, price and delivery promise at the same moment. Collect nationally and you have measured nothing.

Free pilot on your own sources, returned in 48 hours. No card, no trial clock — and you keep the sample data either way.

Pincode and zone level collection Stock-out detection within the hour Free pilot sample in 48 hours
qcommerce_pincode_2026-08-05.jsonl LIVE FEED
{"platform":"blinkit", "pincode":"560034", "city":"Bengaluru", "dark_store_hint":"koramangala_2", "sku_name":"Amul Gold Milk 500ml", "brand":"Amul","pack":"500 ml", "category_path":["Dairy","Milk"], "mrp":34.00,"selling_price":33.00, "unit_price_per_l":66.00, "in_stock":true,"qty_cap":6, "delivery_promise_min":9, "handling_fee":4.00,"surge_fee":0.00, "shelf_position":3,"is_sponsored":false, "observed_at":"2026-08-05T09:02:11Z"} {"platform":"zepto", "pincode":"560095", "sku_name":"Amul Gold Milk 500ml", "selling_price":35.00, "in_stock":false, "oos_since":"2026-08-05T06:40Z", "substitute_shown":true}
2 of 6,204,880 sku-pincode rowspincode coverage 1,840 zones · schema v3.9
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Key facts at a glance

What it is
Managed collection of q-commerce pricing, stock, assortment and delivery promise, captured per delivery pincode or zone
Why pincode matters
Dark store catalogues differ by micro-market, so a national figure describes no actual shopper's experience
Stock-out tracking
Out-of-stock events with timestamps, duration and whether a substitute was shown
Assortment
SKU listing presence per pincode, revealing where a brand is stocked and where it is absent
Delivery promise
Displayed delivery minutes plus handling and surge fees, which vary by time of day
Shelf position
Where a SKU appears in category and search results, and whether placement is sponsored
Refresh
Hourly on priority SKU-pincode sets; several times daily as standard
Who it's for
FMCG and D2C brands, q-commerce platforms, retail teams and consumer investors
Pincode-levelcollection granularitynot city averages
Hourlyfastest refresh availablestock-out capture
1,800+delivery zones coveredand expanding
OOS durationmeasured, not just flaggedwith substitutes

Key takeaways

  • What it is: Managed collection of q-commerce pricing, stock, assortment and delivery promise, captured per delivery pincode or zone
  • Why pincode matters: Dark store catalogues differ by micro-market, so a national figure describes no actual shopper's experience
  • Stock-out tracking: Out-of-stock events with timestamps, duration and whether a substitute was shown
  • Assortment: SKU listing presence per pincode, revealing where a brand is stocked and where it is absent
  • Delivery promise: Displayed delivery minutes plus handling and surge fees, which vary by time of day
  • Shelf position: Where a SKU appears in category and search results, and whether placement is sponsored

Last verified 5 August 2026 by the Actowiz Solutions Data Engineering team.

Definition

What is quick commerce data scraping, and why is pincode the only valid unit?

Quick commerce data scraping is the automated collection of structured data from rapid-delivery grocery and convenience platforms — the ones promising delivery in ten to thirty minutes from a network of dark stores rather than from a warehouse or a supermarket shelf.

The dark store model changes the data problem completely. A traditional retailer has a national catalogue with regional variation. A q-commerce platform has a different catalogue in every delivery zone, because each dark store carries only two to five thousand SKUs chosen for that micro-market and restocked on local demand.

What varies by pincode, simultaneously

  • Assortment. A SKU listed in one zone is genuinely absent in the next, not out of stock — it was never ranged there.
  • Price. Platforms increasingly price by zone, reflecting local competition and dark store economics.
  • Stock. Dark stores hold hours of cover, not weeks, so stock-outs are frequent, short and zone-specific.
  • Delivery promise. The displayed minutes shift with distance to the nearest dark store and with current load.
  • Fees. Handling fees, surge fees and free-delivery thresholds vary by zone and by time of day.
  • Shelf position. Category ordering and sponsored placement differ per zone, so share of shelf is a local metric.

Why national aggregation fails here worse than anywhere else

In most retail categories a national average is a crude simplification. In quick commerce it is closer to a fabrication: it blends zones where a SKU is ranged with zones where it never was, and averages stock-outs that lasted forty minutes with zones that never went out. The resulting number does not describe any shopper's experience anywhere.

We collect per pincode, keep the pincode on every record, and let you aggregate afterwards. That drives volume — one SKU across 1,800 zones is 1,800 records per run — so we scope zone and SKU sets deliberately with you rather than defaulting to everything.

What we collect

Six categories of quick commerce data

Most brands start with availability and price on their own SKUs, then add competitor assortment and shelf position.

Pricing per zone

Price as an actual shopper in that pincode sees it.

  • MRP and selling price
  • Zone-level price variation
  • Unit price normalisation
  • Bundle and multi-pack pricing
  • Discount depth versus MRP

Availability & stock-outs

The metric that matters most in q-commerce.

  • In-stock state per pincode
  • Stock-out start time and duration
  • Quantity caps per order
  • Substitute shown on out-of-stock
  • Recovery time after restock

Assortment & listing presence

Where a SKU is ranged, and where it never was.

  • SKU listing presence per zone
  • New listing and delisting events
  • Range breadth by category and zone
  • Competitor assortment overlap
  • Zone-level range gaps

Delivery promise & fees

The convenience economics shoppers actually judge.

  • Displayed delivery minutes
  • Handling and surge fees
  • Free delivery thresholds
  • Time-of-day fee variation
  • Serviceability by pincode

Shelf position & search

Digital shelf, at zone level.

  • Category shelf position
  • Keyword search rank
  • Sponsored versus organic placement
  • Share of visible shelf per category
  • Competitor displacement by zone

Content & ratings

Listing quality on a very small screen.

  • Title, pack size and image
  • Rating and review count where shown
  • Offer badge and tag presence
  • Content completeness per SKU
  • Category and tag classification
Service scope

What the ecommerce data scraping service includes

A managed engagement, not a tool licence. We own the pipeline and everything that breaks in it.

✓ Included in every engagement

  • Zone sample design around dark store clusters, not raw pincode lists
  • Separate listed and in-stock fields so availability metrics mean what they say
  • Stock-out start timestamps so duration and recovery are measurable
  • Shelf position and sponsored flags for trade spend verification
  • Fixed-time collection windows so peak and off-peak fees separate
  • Source discovery, scoping and a written collection plan
  • Free pilot on your own sources before any commitment
  • Full pipeline build, hosting and proxy infrastructure
  • Schema design, validation and sampled human QA on every run
  • Ongoing maintenance when source layouts change — our cost, not yours
  • Delivery to your warehouse, bucket, SFTP or API endpoint
  • Documented methodology and compliance notes for your legal review

× Not included — stated upfront

  • Order placement, account creation or use of customer credentials
  • Rider, courier or customer personal data
  • Platform-internal dark store inventory or sales figures
  • National catalogue claims, which do not exist in this model
  • Anything behind a login, paywall or credentialed session
  • Personal data beyond a documented lawful basis
  • Licensed third-party datasets we do not hold rights to
  • Guarantees about fields a source simply does not publish
Schema

Quick commerce data fields you receive

Every engagement delivers a documented schema. These are the core fields; the full dictionary runs to 100+ and is agreed during scoping.

Deliverable schema — v3.9 core fields (full dictionary: 100+ fields)
Field Type What it captures Refresh
platform / pincode / city string Platform and the delivery zone the record was collected from Every run
dark_store_hint string Serving dark store where the platform exposes it, useful for cluster analysis Every run
sku_name / brand / pack string Product as listed, with brand and pack size parsed into separate fields Daily
mrp / selling_price decimal Printed maximum price and current selling price in the zone Per cadence
unit_price decimal Normalised per-litre, per-kilogram or per-unit price for cross-pack comparison Per cadence
in_stock / oos_since boolean / timestamp Availability with the timestamp a stock-out began, so duration is measurable Hourly tier
substitute_shown boolean Whether the platform offered an alternative when the SKU was unavailable Hourly tier
listed boolean Whether the SKU is ranged in this zone at all, distinct from being out of stock Every run
delivery_promise_min int Displayed delivery time in minutes at the moment of collection Per cadence
handling_fee / surge_fee decimal Fees applied on top of basket value, which vary by zone and hour Per cadence
shelf_position / is_sponsored int / boolean Position within category or search results and whether placement is paid Per cadence

Not listed and out of stock are separate fields for a reason. A brand chasing a stock-out in a zone where the SKU was never ranged is solving the wrong problem, and most datasets conflate the two.

Coverage

Platforms and markets we collect from

Quick commerce is concentrated in specific markets. Coverage is built zone by zone, and zone selection is the main cost lever.

Blinkit Amazon Now Flipkart Minutes DashMart Gopuff ZeptoSwiggy InstamartBigBasket NowJioMart ExpressDunzo DailyGetirGorillasFlinkBolt MarketWolt MarketRohlikInstacart (rapid)Uber Eats groceryDoorDash convenienceTalabat MartCareem QuikNoon MinutesRappi TurboJiffyZappDelivery Hero DmartsPincode-level coverage in metro IndiaGCC city-level zonesEuropean metro zones

Q-commerce platforms expose catalogue only after a location is set, so collection is inherently zone-based. We scope pincode sets with you — a representative 200 zones often answers the question that 1,800 zones would answer at nine times the cost. Request a source we don't list →

Markets served

Countries and markets where this service is in highest demand

We deliver into 40+ countries. These are the markets where this particular service is requested most, and the reason demand concentrates there.

Highest-demand markets for this service, and why demand concentrates there
Market Why demand concentrates here
India The deepest quick commerce market globally, with genuine pincode-level catalogue variation across several national platforms.
United Arab Emirates & Saudi Arabia High delivery penetration in dense cities, with rapid assortment expansion and frequent price movement.
Netherlands, Germany & Nordics Metro-level dark store networks with mature operations, used mainly for FMCG availability tracking.
United States Rapid delivery with different economics and less zone-level catalogue variation, so scope is usually narrower.

North America

United StatesCanadaMexico

United Kingdom & Ireland

United KingdomIreland

Western Europe

GermanyFranceNetherlandsBelgiumSpainItalySwitzerlandAustria

Nordics

SwedenNorwayDenmarkFinland

Middle East

United Arab EmiratesSaudi ArabiaQatarKuwaitIsrael

Asia Pacific

SingaporeAustraliaNew ZealandJapanSouth KoreaMalaysiaIndonesiaThailandVietnamPhilippines

South Asia

IndiaBangladeshSri LankaPakistan

LATAM

BrazilArgentinaChileColombia

Africa

South AfricaNigeriaKenyaEgypt

We run production collection across 40+ countries. Coverage depth varies by market and by source, so we confirm what is actually available for your specific markets during scoping rather than claiming uniform global coverage. Ask about a market we don't list →

Who buys this data

Which teams buy quick commerce data scraping as a service

FMCG and D2C brands dominate, because q-commerce has become a primary channel with almost no native visibility.

Head of Ecommerce / Q-commerce

FMCG and D2C brands
The problem

Q-commerce is a major channel but you cannot see where your SKUs are ranged, in stock, or priced correctly across thousands of zones.

What we deliver

Pincode-level listing presence, availability and pricing for your SKUs across every platform, with stock-out duration measured rather than just flagged.

Metric that moves

On-shelf availability %

Trade Marketing Lead

FMCG brands
The problem

You pay for placement and visibility but have no independent verification that it appeared, in which zones, or for how long.

What we deliver

Shelf position and sponsored placement tracking per zone and category, so paid visibility is verified against what was bought.

Metric that moves

Return on trade spend

Supply Chain / Availability Lead

Brands and distributors
The problem

Stock-outs at dark store level are invisible until sales dip, and by then the cause is unrecoverable.

What we deliver

Hourly availability monitoring with stock-out start times, duration and substitute detection, aggregated to zone clusters.

Metric that moves

Lost sales from OOS

Revenue / Pricing Manager

Brands and platforms
The problem

Zone-level price variation means MRP compliance and competitive positioning cannot be assessed centrally.

What we deliver

Selling price versus MRP per zone with unit-price normalisation, revealing where discounting has gone beyond agreed limits.

Metric that moves

Price realisation

Category Manager

Q-commerce platforms
The problem

Assortment decisions per dark store need competitor range visibility that no internal system contains.

What we deliver

Competitor assortment by zone with range breadth, new listing detection and price bands per category.

Metric that moves

Basket size

Investment Analyst

Consumer and retail funds
The problem

Q-commerce theses need observable assortment, pricing and availability data rather than platform-reported metrics.

What we deliver

Longitudinal zone-level panels covering assortment breadth, pricing, fees and availability by platform and city.

Metric that moves

Signal lead time

Use cases

How quick commerce data gets used in practice

Four patterns, with the outcome each is judged on.

On-shelf availability at dark store level

Availability is checked hourly per SKU per pincode, with stock-out start time recorded so duration is measurable and recovery time after restock is visible. Because listing presence is a separate field, zones where the SKU was never ranged are excluded from availability metrics rather than depressing them.

Outcome: Availability measured as shoppers experience it, with lost-sales windows quantified rather than estimated.

Assortment gap and range expansion

Listing presence is tracked per zone, showing where a SKU is ranged and where competitors are present but you are not — which is the specific, evidenced argument a platform category team responds to.

Outcome: Range expansion conversations grounded in zone-level absence data rather than national share arguments.

Trade spend verification

Shelf position and sponsored flags are captured per zone and category, so paid placement can be verified against what was actually purchased, including how consistently it appeared across zones and hours.

Outcome: Trade and retail media spend verified independently rather than accepted on platform reporting.

MRP compliance and price realisation

Selling price is compared against MRP per zone with unit-price normalisation across pack sizes, exposing zones where discounting exceeds agreed limits or where pack architecture has been undercut.

Outcome: Price positioning defended zone by zone instead of assessed on a national average that hides both tails.

Engagement examples

Two engagements, anonymised

Clients rarely permit naming. These are real engagement shapes with identifying detail removed, so you can judge whether the work resembles your situation.

FMCG brand · India

A 40% availability gap turned out to be an assortment problem

Situation

The brand's dashboard reported severe unavailability across metros and escalated it to supply chain, where weeks were spent investigating replenishment.

What we ran

Pincode-level collection with listed and in-stock as separate fields, so never-ranged zones were excluded from availability and reported as range gaps instead.

Result

Most of the gap proved to be zones where the SKU was never ranged, redirecting effort to a category conversation.

D2C brand · GCC

Paid shelf placement could not be verified independently

Situation

The brand bought category placement across platforms but had only platform-side reporting to confirm it appeared, and in which zones.

What we ran

Hourly shelf position and sponsored-flag capture across a defined zone sample, compared against the placement schedule purchased.

Result

Placement delivery was verified independently, with inconsistent zones evidenced.

Examples are anonymised at client request. Named references are available on request under NDA. See published case studies →

The 48-hour sample — run on your sources, not ours

Before you commit to anything, we run this service against your own sources and send you the output. If the coverage isn't there, the sample will show you that too — which is the point. We would rather lose the deal at the pilot than at month three.

  • Real extraction from your actual sources
  • Returned inside two business days
  • Coverage and QA note included
  • You keep the data either way
  • No card, no trial clock
  • Named engineer on the call
Get my free sample Book a 20-min scoping call Reply within one business day. Reference calls available under NDA.
How we engage

Three ways to engage us

Same collection pipeline and QA underneath. The difference is who holds the schedule and how the data reaches you.

Managed service (most common)

We own the collection, the QA and the delivery. You receive clean data on a schedule and never touch a scraper.

  • Dedicated engineer assigned to your account
  • Site changes fixed by us, not reported to you
  • Scheduled delivery to your warehouse or S3
  • Named contact on Slack or email

Best fit: Teams who need the data, not the infrastructure.

API access

The same collection pipeline exposed as an authenticated REST endpoint your systems query directly.

  • On-demand and scheduled endpoints
  • Rate limits agreed to your load profile
  • Sandbox keys for integration testing
  • Versioned schema with deprecation notice

Best fit: Product and engineering teams building on live data.

One-time or project extraction

A defined pull for a specific question — market sizing, diligence, a pitch, a one-off audit.

  • Fixed scope agreed in writing upfront
  • Single delivery with full QA report
  • Methodology documented for your records
  • Converts to managed if you want continuity

Best fit: Research, strategy and diligence work with a deadline.

Pricing

Every engagement is quoted individually, because the honest answer depends on your scope: how many sources, how many records, how often, and how the data reaches you. We scope it with you, run a free pilot on your own sources, and then quote a fixed monthly figure — no per-request metering and no overage billing when volumes move. Request a quote and you will have a number after one call.

Build vs buy

Should you build q-commerce collection in-house or hire it as a service?

Zone-based collection multiplies volume before you add a single SKU, and that is where in-house builds break.

In-house build vs self-serve tool vs Actowiz managed service
Consideration In-house scraping team Generic proxy / DIY tool Actowiz managed feed
Time to first usable data 6–12 weeks of engineering before anything is trustworthy Days, but output needs manual cleanup before use Free pilot in 48 hours, production in 5–10 business days
Who fixes it when a source changes Your engineers, at the cost of their roadmap You do — tools report failures, they don't resolve them We do, same business day, inside the retainer
Data quality assurance Whatever your team has time to build None beyond HTTP success Schema validation plus sampled human QA on every run
Compliance documentation Rarely produced, then requested urgently by legal Not provided; terms risk sits with you Sources, method and lawful basis documented for review
Accountability Distributed across a team with other priorities A support ticket queue A named engineer and an account owner
True annual cost Engineer salaries, proxies, hosting, ongoing maintenance Low licence fee plus significant hidden analyst time One fixed monthly retainer, quoted after scoping

Why listed and in-stock must never be the same field

This sounds like a schema pedantry point. It is the single most consequential design decision in quick commerce data, and getting it wrong sends brand teams chasing problems that do not exist.

Three states, not two

  • Listed and in stock. The SKU is ranged in this dark store and available to buy now.
  • Listed and out of stock. The SKU is ranged here but currently unavailable. This is a supply chain problem with a fix.
  • Not listed. The SKU was never ranged in this zone. This is a commercial and category problem, and no amount of replenishment will change it.

Most datasets collapse the last two into "unavailable". The consequence is predictable: a brand sees 40% unavailability in a city, escalates to supply chain, and burns weeks discovering that most of the gap is zones where the platform never ranged the SKU. Meanwhile the actual stock-outs — short, frequent, in high-value zones — get lost in the noise.

How we separate them

Two fields, always. listed records whether the SKU exists in that zone's catalogue at all. in_stock records buyability where it is listed. Availability metrics are computed only across the listed population, so your on-shelf availability figure means what the phrase actually means.

Range gaps then become their own metric, and a far more valuable one commercially: a list of zones where competitors are ranged and you are not is a concrete argument for a category conversation. That argument does not exist if the data called it a stock-out.

Zone selection: how to get national insight without national cost

Every q-commerce buyer wants complete coverage, and almost nobody needs it. Because catalogue only appears after a location is set, collection cost scales with zones multiplied by SKUs multiplied by frequency — three multipliers, which compounds fast.

The maths people underestimate

500 SKUs across 1,800 pincodes at hourly refresh is 21.6 million observations a day, per platform. The same 500 SKUs across a well-chosen 200 pincodes at hourly is 2.4 million — roughly a ninth of the cost. The question is whether the 200 answer the same business question, and usually they do.

How we design the zone set

  • Revenue-weighted metros first. Q-commerce revenue is heavily concentrated. A modest set of zones in top metros covers the majority of category value.
  • Dark store clusters, not administrative pincodes. Several pincodes are served by one dark store, so their catalogues are near-identical. Sampling one per cluster removes redundancy without losing signal.
  • Deliberate variation. Include high-income, mid-market and price-sensitive zones, since assortment and pricing differ systematically across them.
  • A rotating audit tier. A broad, low-frequency sweep across many zones validates that your dense sample still represents the wider picture.

We design this with you before quoting, because scoping the zone set well is worth more than any efficiency in the collection itself. If you already track supermarket pricing, this pairs directly with grocery data scraping — the same brands, the same categories, two very different channel economics.

How it works

How a quick commerce engagement goes live in 5 to 10 business days

Pincode sets and SKU scope are designed first, since zones multiplied by SKUs multiplied by frequency drives everything.

Scope the sources and fields

You send us target sites, regions, SKUs or keywords. We return a field-level schema proposal, coverage estimate and refresh recommendation — usually within two working days.

Pilot sample, free

We extract a real sample from your actual targets so you can inspect field fill rates, edge cases and match quality before any commitment.

Production build and QA harness

Our engineers build extractors, then wire validation rules: type checks, range checks, duplicate detection and golden-record comparison against a manually verified subset.

Scheduled delivery into your stack

Feeds run at your chosen cadence and land in the warehouse or bucket you already use. Schema changes are versioned and announced before they ship.

Ongoing monitoring and SLA support

We watch coverage drift, fill rates and source changes daily. A named engineer owns your account, and layout breaks are fixed by us — not queued for you.

Formats & destinations

JSON, JSONL, CSV, Parquet or XLSX, delivered to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, SFTP, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks or a REST/GraphQL endpoint. Webhooks fire on completion, and every batch ships with a manifest containing row counts, schema version and QA results so your pipeline can fail loudly instead of silently ingesting a bad file.

Compliance & data ethics

We collect publicly accessible catalogue and pricing pages, using generic location input to set the delivery zone. We do not create customer accounts, use customer credentials or place orders. Courier, rider and customer personal data is never part of the deliverable. Collection rates are set low enough to avoid burdening platform infrastructure, and methodology is documented per platform.

Service commitments

What we commit to, in writing

These are contractual, not marketing copy. They appear in the engagement document.

Service level commitments written into every managed engagement
Commitment What we hold ourselves to
Pilot turnaround A real sample from your own sources within 48 hours of scoping, at no cost.
Go-live Production collection running within 5–10 business days of sign-off.
Delivery punctuality 99.5% on-schedule delivery, measured monthly and reported to you.
Breakage response Source layout changes triaged same business day; critical sources inside 4 hours.
Data quality Schema validation on every run plus sampled human QA before any delivery leaves us.
Escalation A named engineer and an account owner, not a shared ticket queue.
Change requests Field additions and source changes handled inside the retainer, not re-quoted.
Exit Your historical data exported in full on request. No lock-in, no export fee.

Why teams pick Actowiz for this work

  • Engineers, not a dashboard. You get people who fix breakages, not a self-serve tool you maintain yourself.
  • We tell you what we can't do. Scope limits and coverage gaps are stated before you sign, not discovered in month three.
  • QA is part of the service. Schema validation and sampled human review run before delivery, every run.
  • Compliance is documented. Sources, method and lawful basis written down so your legal team can review them.
  • Fixed monthly cost. No per-request metering, no surprise overage on a month when a competitor adds SKUs.
  • Six years, 40+ countries. Long-running production pipelines across retail, travel, mobility and finance.
Definitions

Terms used on this page

Plain definitions of the terms used on this page, so procurement and legal reviewers are working from the same vocabulary as your data team.

Dark store
A small fulfilment site holding a locally selected range of two to five thousand SKUs, serving a delivery radius of a few kilometres. Its catalogue is local, which is why q-commerce data must be collected per zone.
Listed versus in stock
Two distinct states. Listed means the SKU exists in that zone's catalogue; in stock means it is buyable. Merging them turns commercial range gaps into apparent supply chain failures.
Delivery promise
The delivery time displayed to the shopper at the moment of collection. It moves with distance to the nearest dark store and with current platform load, so a single daily reading is not representative.
FAQ

Quick commerce data scraping: frequently asked questions

What brand and platform teams ask during evaluation.

Because a national q-commerce catalogue does not exist. Each dark store carries two to five thousand SKUs selected for its micro-market, so assortment, price, stock and delivery promise all differ by zone at the same moment.

A national figure blends zones where a SKU is ranged with zones where it never was, and averages a forty-minute stock-out with zones that never went out. The result describes no shopper's experience anywhere. Every record we deliver carries its pincode so you aggregate afterwards, on your terms.

Two separate fields, and this is the most important distinction in the schema. listed says whether the SKU is in that zone's catalogue at all. in_stock says whether it is buyable where it is listed.

Datasets that merge them cause real damage: a brand sees 40% unavailability, escalates to supply chain, and discovers weeks later that most of the gap was never-ranged zones. We compute availability only across the listed population, and deliver range gaps as their own metric — which is commercially more useful, since a list of zones where competitors are ranged and you are not is an actionable category argument.

Within the hour on the hourly tier, with the stock-out start timestamp recorded so duration is measurable rather than just flagged. Recovery time after restock is captured the same way.

This matters because q-commerce stock-outs are short. A dark store holds hours of cover, not weeks, so a daily snapshot misses most of them entirely and systematically understates the problem. If availability is your primary use case, hourly on a focused SKU-pincode set beats daily on everything.

Usually far fewer than clients first assume. Cost scales with zones times SKUs times frequency, so zone selection is the main lever — 500 SKUs across 1,800 pincodes hourly is roughly nine times the cost of the same SKUs across a well-chosen 200.

We design the set around revenue-weighted metros, sample one pincode per dark store cluster to remove redundancy, deliberately include income-tier variation, and add a rotating low-frequency sweep to validate that the dense sample still represents the wider picture. That design conversation happens before we quote.

Yes. Shelf position within category and search results is captured per zone, along with a sponsored flag where the platform marks paid placement.

This is one of the higher-value uses of q-commerce data, because trade and retail media spend is otherwise verified only by the platform selling it. Zone-level and hour-level capture shows not just whether placement appeared, but how consistently — which is usually where the discrepancy sits.

Platform terms generally restrict automated access, and we say that plainly rather than implying the question is settled. Our practice: publicly accessible catalogue pages only, generic location input to set the zone, no account creation, no customer credentials, no orders placed, low request rates.

You receive a written methodology document per platform describing exactly what is accessed and how, and a DPA before signature, so your counsel can assess your specific use case. Any vendor telling you this is entirely without consideration is not being straight with you.

Yes — displayed delivery minutes, handling fee, surge fee and free-delivery threshold, all per zone and captured at the moment of collection.

These move with time of day and platform load, so a single daily reading is not representative. Where delivery economics are the focus, we collect at several fixed times daily so peak and off-peak behaviour separate cleanly rather than being averaged into a meaningless midpoint.

India is the deepest by a wide margin, with genuine pincode-level differentiation across several national platforms. The GCC is strong and growing. Parts of Europe have meaningful coverage in metro areas, though the sector has consolidated significantly there. US rapid delivery exists but with different economics and less zone-level catalogue variation.

We give you an honest per-market assessment during scoping. In some markets q-commerce is thin enough that grocery delivery data answers your question better, and we will tell you that rather than selling you the more expensive collection.

We quote individually, and here the quote is almost entirely zones × SKUs × frequency. Nothing else moves the number as much.

A focused SKU set across a well-chosen metro zone sample at several-times-daily refresh sits at the lighter end. Broad SKU coverage across thousands of pincodes at hourly refresh across multiple platforms sits considerably higher. Because zone design has such leverage, we do that design with you before quoting. One scoping call, a free pilot on your own SKUs and pincodes within 48 hours, then a fixed monthly quote. Request a quote.

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Send us a SKU list and a few pincodes. We return zone-level pricing, listing presence and availability within 48 hours, with listed and in-stock as separate fields.

Free pilot, no card, no obligation. We'll design a zone sample with you before quoting.
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