Shelf availability and price checks in informal trade

How a shelf check works

1. The player must be at the shop: a location fix within 80 m of the shop is required before the check opens.
2. For each product: is it on the shelf, yes or no.
3. If yes, a few "more than this?" cards halve the price band until it is within R2. The phone never types a price.
4. An optional photograph of the shelf is taken live in the page, with its own location fix.
5. A second, independent visit (another account, another phone, at least an hour apart, within seven days) must give the same answer for it to count.

The questions this answers

• Which priority product is unavailable when customers actually want to buy it?
• What does the customer actually pay for this exact product and pack?
• What changed between your own visits or your distributor reports?
• After a fix, is the product back and is the price where you set it?

What it is, and is not

It is a counter check by people who shop there, compared across independent visits. It is not a till-scan feed, a census of every outlet or a measure of sales; if you already get that from another source, 2Klip is for the gap between those readings.

Alcohol is checked only by adults the service has verified as 18 or older, in a separate outlet check.

What to send us

Scope, sample, price and delivery are agreed per project before any work starts. 2Klip does not publish a coverage figure or an accuracy percentage, and a fact is only called verified once independent checks agree.

1. The decision: what will you do differently once you have the answer?
2. The scope: which areas, places, products or boards matter, and by when?
3. The evidence: what would you accept as proof, and what would make you reject it?
4. The output: the file, the fields and how often you need it.

Questions and answers