Salesforce Commerce Cloud E-Commerce Build for Grind & Pound Multi-City Storefront Launch

NSIQ Infotech

NSIQ Infotech

Salesforce Partner

June 24, 2026

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Salesforce Commerce Cloud E-Commerce Build for Grind & Pound Multi-City Storefront Launch

CLIENT REQUIREMENT

Business Overview

Grind & Pound is a leading supplier of premium flour and spices, serving both household and commercial customers across India. The company had traditionally relied on offline sales channels, limiting its market reach and growth potential.

The Challenge

Without an online sales platform, every customer order depended on direct offline interactions, restricting business expansion to existing networks and local markets. As Grind & Pound planned to serve customers across more than 20 cities, managing city-specific product availability and pricing became increasingly complex.

Location-Based Pricing Complexity

Product pricing varied significantly between cities due to differences in freight charges, logistics costs, and regional supply chain factors. The business required a solution capable of dynamically reflecting these location-specific pricing structures while maintaining a seamless customer experience.

The Solution

NSIQ Infotech implemented a fully functional e-commerce platform using Salesforce Commerce Cloud. The solution was designed to support multi-city operations, enabling customers to browse products, view location-specific pricing, and place orders online through a centralized digital storefront.

Multi-City Commerce Enablement

The platform was configured to manage city-based product availability, pricing rules, and inventory visibility. Customers automatically received accurate pricing and product information based on their selected delivery location, ensuring transparency and competitive pricing across all supported markets.

Business Impact

By launching a scalable Salesforce Commerce Cloud e-commerce platform, Grind & Pound successfully expanded beyond traditional offline sales channels. The company gained the ability to serve customers across multiple cities simultaneously, increase market reach, streamline order management, and create a strong foundation for future digital growth.

CHALLENGES

Flour and Spice Availability Varies by City, With No Way to Reflect It Online

Different cities in Grind & Pound's network stock different SKUs based on regional demand and logistics capacity without location-aware catalog logic, any online storefront would either list unavailable products or hide items that are in stock, directly causing lost orders and customer distrust.

A Single National Price Would Lose Money or Lose Customers

flour to a Tier 2 city costs materially more than delivering within a metro; setting one flat price nationwide meant either absorbing losses on remote orders or pricing out city customers who had cheaper local alternatives. Every order priced incorrectly was either a margin hit or a lost sale.

No Visibility Into Stock Levels Across 80+ SKUs Until It Was Too Late

Grind & Pound manages over 80 flour and spice SKUs across 20+ cities; without automated stock monitoring, the team discovered stockouts only when orders came in that could not be fulfilled each one a lost sale and a customer who had reason not to return.

Post-Order Customer Communication Was Entirely Manual

Every order confirmation, dispatch notification, and delivery update required a team member to send it manually a process that could not keep pace with order volume and was causing delayed responses that damaged customer confidence in a category where freshness and reliability are buying criteria.

No Integration With the Delivery Partner Meant Delayed Dispatch and Blind Logistics

Without a connected delivery system, orders had to be manually handed off to the logistics partner and tracking information had to be fetched and relayed separately adding delays to every shipment and making it impossible for customers to self-serve their tracking information.

Solution

01 Commerce Cloud Storefront Built From Scratch

NSIQ Infotech designed and developed a full e-commerce storefront on Salesforce Commerce Cloud using the Storefront Reference Architecture (SFRA), covering product catalog, cart, checkout, customer accounts, and order management. This gave Grind & Pound their first-ever digital sales channel one built to handle multi-city complexity from day one.

02 Pincode and City-Based Product Catalog

A custom JavaScript controller was built on top of SFRA to filter the product listing page in real time based on the city or pincode a customer enters, calling a backend service that returns only the eligible SKUs for that location. Customers in Chennai now see only what is deliverable to Chennai eliminating the cart abandonment that occurs when buyers add a product only to find it unavailable at checkout.

03 City-Level Dynamic Pricing Engine

Separate Commerce Cloud Price Books were configured for each city, allowing Grind & Pound to set a distinct price per SKU per market; prices update automatically when a customer selects their location. This unlocked the ability to price competitively in metro markets while recovering freight costs on orders to remote cities directly improving margin without manual price management.

04 Automated Low-Inventory Alerts via Salesforce Flow

Salesforce Flow was configured to monitor stock levels per SKU per city and trigger automated email and internal notifications when any product drops below 15% of its safety threshold. The procurement team now receives advance warnings in time to reorder, estimated to prevent ~70% of the stockout incidents that previously caused unfulfilable orders.

05 WhatsApp, AI Chatbot, and SMS Post-Order Messaging

Commerce Cloud was integrated with the WhatsApp Business API, an AI chatbot layer via webhook, and a third-party SMS gateway, with automated message sequences mapped to order confirmation, dispatch, and delivery events. Approximately 85% of all customer communication after an order is placed now goes out automatically, letting Grind & Pound scale order volume without adding communication headcount.

06 Delivery Partner API Integration

A custom Apex REST connector was built to link Commerce Cloud with Grind & Pound's third-party delivery partner, automating the dispatch request at the point of order and pulling live tracking data back into the storefront for customer self-service. This removed the manual dispatch handoff entirely and gave Grind & Pound the logistics speed needed to compete on delivery experience.

07 Role-Based Sales and Operations Dashboards

Separate dashboards were configured for the Store Admin, Inventory Manager, Logistics Coordinator, and Management, each surfacing the city-wise sales figures, SKU-level stock health, and delivery partner performance relevant to their decisions. With live visibility into which cities and which flour or spice products are moving fastest, the team can respond to demand in hours instead of days.

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Results

Conclusion

Business Transformation and Growth Enablement

Before partnering with NSIQ Infotech, Grind & Pound had no digital sales channel and was unable to sell its products online. Today, the company successfully accepts and manages orders across more than 20 cities in India, providing customers with accurate product availability and location-specific pricing tailored to their market.

Commerce Cloud as a Growth Engine

Salesforce Commerce Cloud now serves as the foundation of Grind & Pound’s digital commerce strategy. The platform enables rapid expansion into new markets by allowing administrators to introduce new city-specific price books and catalog rules without requiring significant redevelopment or infrastructure changes.

Automated Customer Journey

From product discovery and online ordering to post-purchase communications, key customer interactions are automated through the platform. This has improved operational efficiency, enhanced customer experience, and reduced the manual effort previously required to manage orders and customer engagement.

Preparing for AI-Powered Personalization

As part of the next phase of digital growth, Salesforce Einstein Product Recommendations will be introduced to deliver personalized product suggestions based on customer purchase behavior. By recommending complementary flour and spice products, the solution is expected to increase customer engagement and improve average order value.

A Scalable Foundation for Expansion

The Commerce Cloud implementation provides a flexible and scalable framework capable of supporting new cities, product categories, and customer segments as the business continues to grow. The platform ensures that expansion can occur efficiently without disrupting existing operations.

Beyond an E-Commerce Website

NSIQ Infotech delivered more than an online storefront. We built a comprehensive digital commerce infrastructure that enables Grind & Pound to scale its operations, strengthen customer relationships, and accelerate business growth across multiple markets.

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