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Bab Colis
Storefront and order tracking built for cash-on-delivery sellers
- Score
- 42
- confidence 42
- Evidence
- 1
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 0
- named in sources
- First version
- 35 d
- estimate
- Type
- Mobile app
- PWA: installs on iPhone and Android
- Market since
- 2006
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Mobile app: Sellers manage their shop, confirm orders, hand off batches to couriers, and track cash owed while moving through their day away from a desk. Sample screens on a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Orders to confirm
12
- Order 1048Oran
- Order 1049Algiers
- Order 1050Setif
- Order 1051Annaba
- Order 1052 (flagged)Blida
About this appAI proposal
Bab Colis is a storefront and order desk for online sellers whose customers pay the courier in cash. Build a mobile shop, take orders with a phone number and address, confirm them, hand them to a delivery partner and see which cash has come back.
It is made for small and mid-sized merchants in Algeria and similar markets. Card-first tools treat cash as an afterthought. Bab Colis treats it as the main path.
Every order moves through confirmed, shipped, delivered, returned and cash received. You see the money you are owed by each courier, not only the sales you made.
- Tagline
- Sell, confirm, deliver, get your cash.
- Voice
- PracticalDirectWarm
- Why this name
- Bab means door in Arabic and colis means parcel in French, both everyday words in the region. Together they mean the parcel at the door.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Cash-first checkout
Short order form: name, phone, wilaya, address. No card step. Light enough for slow mobile connections.
No member yet
Order confirmation queue
Call or message each buyer from one list and mark orders confirmed or cancelled before anything ships.
No member yet
Courier hand-off
Send confirmed orders to a delivery partner as a batch and keep every status in one place.
No member yet
Cash owed ledger
See cash collected by couriers, what has been paid to you and what is still outstanding.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Sell, confirm, deliver, get your cash.
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. These tiers are a starting point to test, based on order volume.
Starter
Free
- Up to 30 orders a month
- Storefront and order queue
- Cash ledger
Shop
$15 a month
- Up to 500 orders a month
- Courier batches
- Return tracking
- No-show flags
Growth
$39 a month
- Up to 3,000 orders a month
- Team seats
- Export and analytics
Would you pay Shop · $15 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. Each shop has a public storefront link and order form that merchants share on social media and in messages. Buyers see a small Powered by Bab Colis line on the form and order confirmation.
- Do they become customers?
- Buyers are mostly shoppers, but some run their own shops. Test how many click the footer link and start a free shop.
- First customers
- Solo and small-team online sellers in Algeria who sell fashion or accessories through social media and take cash on delivery, with 20 to 200 orders a month.
- Where to reach them
- Seller groups on social media: Join Arabic and French seller communities, offer free setup to ten sellers and learn their order flow.
- Courier partners: Ask one or two local delivery companies to recommend the tool to their merchants for cleaner batches.
- First milestone
- Ten sellers run real orders through it for a month and five of them pay for the Shop tier.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 364 stars in 56 days
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Courier integrationsDelivery partner APIs or CSV exportBatches and status updates depend on what local couriers offer; start with CSV.
- This app · MessagingClick-to-call and chat linksOrder confirmation happens by phone or chat, so the app opens them with the order details.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialMerchants may already run on social media chats and spreadsheets and may not switch unless the cash ledger saves clear time.
- PlatformCourier APIs may be missing or unstable, forcing manual CSV hand-offs that weaken the main promise.
- RegulatoryLocal rules on online selling, data storage and taxes are unchecked and must be reviewed per country.
- CommercialTaking payment for the subscription may be hard where merchants lack international cards, so local billing must be tested.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.