A directory lists your shop. Flipns lists what is in it.
A business directory answers “who sells this near me” with a phone number. It is a genuinely useful thing, and it is not the same thing as being able to show the item, the price and whether it is in stock. Flipns gives a local seller a free public page with the products on it.
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What Justdial is built for
Justdial is a local search and business directory: buyers look for a category of business in their area, and businesses receive enquiries. It is built around connecting a buyer to a business, and it is good at exactly that.
Flipns and Justdial, side by side
| Capability | Flipns | Justdial |
|---|---|---|
| What gets published | Individual new and used products, each with photos, a price in rupees, a condition and stock, plus a seller page that collects them all. | A business entry — what the business is, where it is, how to reach it. |
| What a buyer sees before contacting you | The exact item, its price, its condition, your rating, your badges and how long you have traded. | Your business details and whatever the directory shows for your category. |
| How a buyer reaches you | In-app chat with structured offers, optional forwarding of messages to WhatsApp or SMS, and an option to publish your verified number on a listing for 100 credits. | Enquiries and calls routed by the directory. |
| Cost | Free to publish your page and your products, with no commission. Promotion is optional and priced per listing. | Free and paid business-listing tiers, set by the platform. |
| Your page | flipns.com/u/<handle> — a public, indexable page with your live products, reviews and verification, shareable as one link. | A business profile within the directory. |
| Reach beyond the platform | Structured data on every product and profile page, sitemaps, llms.txt, a public API and an MCP server, so listings can appear in search results and AI answers. | Discovery primarily through the directory's own search. |
When Justdial is the better choice
No platform wins on everything, and pretending otherwise is how a comparison page loses a reader. These are the cases where we would point you at Justdial instead.
- You are a service business — a clinic, a repair shop, a caterer — where the thing being bought is not an item with a price on it.
- You want enquiry calls routed to you rather than messages from buyers about specific products.
- Your customers already search that directory by habit for your category.
Take an offline shop online in an afternoon
There is no onboarding call, no plan and no setup fee. Create an account, choose a handle, and photograph your stock — the assistant writes each listing from the photos, so putting fifty items online is fifty photo sessions and very little typing.
When you are done, flipns.com/u/<handle> is your shopfront: everything you have live, your ratings, your badges, one link to put on a board, a bill, a WhatsApp status or a visiting card.
- Free to publish, with no commission on anything you sell
- Multiple units of the same item, so stock works properly
- New and used stock side by side under one profile
- Reveal your verified phone or WhatsApp number on a listing if you would rather be called
Being found is the point
A page nobody can find is a pamphlet. Flipns pages are server-rendered, indexed, marked up with structured data describing the product, the price, the condition and the seller, and listed in the site's sitemaps — and there is a public API and an MCP server so AI assistants can answer questions about what is actually available.
Category and city pages sit above your listings and link down into them, which is how a search for a category in your city can reach a shop it has never heard of.
Where a directory still wins
If what you sell is a service rather than an item — you fix things, you cater, you teach — a marketplace built around products with prices is the wrong shape, and a directory is the right one. Flipns lists goods, property and jobs.
It is also worth being clear that Flipns is new. A directory that has been running for two decades has habit on its side, and habit is worth a great deal. Being on both costs nothing.
Justdial is a trademark of its respective owner. Flipns is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Justdial. Statements about Justdial describe what it is broadly built to do, based on publicly available information as of . Products change, so check current details with Justdial directly. Every statement about Flipns describes the product as it works today.
Frequently asked questions
- How can a local shop publish its products online for free in India?
- Create a free Flipns account, choose a handle, and publish each product with a photo — the AI assistant writes the title, description, category and condition for you. Your public page at flipns.com/u/<handle> collects everything you have live, at no cost and with no commission on sales.
- Is Flipns a business directory?
- No. A directory lists businesses; Flipns lists the products themselves, with photos, prices, condition and stock, plus a seller page that gathers them together. If you sell services rather than items, a directory is the better fit.
- What does it cost a business to sell on Flipns?
- Nothing to publish, and no commission on a sale. Credits are optional and buy visibility — 10 credits to feature a listing for a day, 8 to bump it back to the top — with 100 credits granted to every new account.
- Can customers call me directly?
- Yes, if you want them to. Revealing your verified phone or WhatsApp number publicly on a listing costs 100 credits and is a per-listing choice. Otherwise buyers reach you through Flipns chat, and messages can be forwarded to WhatsApp or SMS for 0.25 credits each.
Try Flipns alongside Justdial
Listing is free and there is no commission, so running both costs you nothing but the photographs.
Free to list · No commission on sales