Two years since its launch, ONDC is struggling to achieve scale. At a time when its venture capital-backed e-commerce rivals are reducing cash burn, the platforms strategy is raising a few important concerns.
The platform is also offering “pre-team” and “pre-idea” founders the opportunity to work with operators and network participants such as Namma Yatri, Plotch.ai, SellerApp, Magicpin.
On ONDC, merchants will have the freedom to negotiate better prices with logistics providers while on the e-commerce platforms, they have little control over the service-level agreements.