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Our Solutions

Driven by Family, Empowered by Flexibility

At Taxi Connect South Africa, we understand the value of being there for your family. That’s why we’ve designed an opportunity for you to work flexibly, between 8:00 and 18:00, using your own vehicle—whether it’s a 🚐 or an Avanza—to deliver packages and groceries on behalf of our retail partners.
This isn’t just a job—it’s a chance to earn extra income while moving closer to your goals.

Work on Your Terms

It’s simple: adjust your work, not your life. With us, you decide when to work. Use our easy On/Off Duty function to plan your week in advance or select shifts daily based on your availability. Choose the slots that suit your schedule, so you can focus on what truly matters—your life, your family, and your future.

Safe, Secure, Reliable Deliveries

We prioritize safety and reliability by working with trusted, permitted drivers from local communities. Our commitment is to provide fast and dependable deliveries, helping our retail partners thrive while supporting local economies.

Impact Beyond Deliveries

Our journey has been transformative. For our 🚐 fleet, we’ve helped drivers grow their net income from R10,000 to R31,000 per month. But we’re not stopping there.

Addressing Unemployment: With township unemployment reaching 70% of the 34% national rate, we’re creating jobs and giving the taxi industry a lifeline.

Empowering Youth: By focusing on essential skills and delivering top-quality customer service, we’re opening doors for the next generation in this evolving industry.

We’re not just about vehicles—we’re about empowering communities, creating opportunities, and driving change.

Hub & Spoke Partner

Connect your products to the businesses that need them using TaxiConnect as your logistics partner.

Vendor Partner

Ensure secured delivery of your basket and shopping essentials from one of our partner wholesalers or retailers.

Entrepreneur Partner

Unlock new income revenue streams and expand your Taxi business into the delivery of goods and services.

Delivery Partner

Earn delivery fees in your down hours delivering goods and services to businesses in your area.

We deliver.

Our Why

Empowering Underserved Communities

Shelfline is transforming grocery delivery by leveraging Chat-to-Order and Delivery as a Service (DAAS) to address the unique challenges faced by traditionally underserved communities. By using innovative payment methods and partnering with community-based delivery networks—such as the taxi industry and leveraging the Quantum and Avanza vehicle networks—we’re creating a solution that’s both practical and impactful.

The Challenges We Address

Cost and Accessibility

For many in townships, the expense and logistics of grocery transportation can be significant barriers. Our solution makes grocery delivery more affordable and accessible.

Employment Opportunities
By involving local drivers, we’re not only facilitating deliveries but also creating meaningful income streams within communities.

How We Make It Happen

Entrepreneurial Training
Beyond deliveries, we equip community members with the skills they need to succeed, fostering a spirit of entrepreneurship.

Delivery as an Enabler
Our DAAS model goes beyond simple logistics—it’s a catalyst for change, connecting people to essential services and creating opportunities for growth.At Shelfline, we’re not just delivering groceries; we’re delivering solutions, opportunities, and hope to communities that need them most.

What We’re Solving

Tackling Challenges in Last-Mile Delivery

At Shelfline, we are focused on overcoming the key challenges in grocery delivery within underserved communities. Our innovative approach directly addresses these pressing issues:

Safe & Secure Last-Metre Delivery
We ensure that deliveries reach their final destination safely and securely, giving customers peace of mind while fostering trust in our service.

Local vs. Foreign Nationals
By prioritizing local drivers, we help address sensitive community dynamics, ensuring that opportunities remain within the neighborhoods we serve.

Local Community Drivers with Permits
We collaborate with licensed, community-based drivers, ensuring compliance and creating sustainable job opportunities for those who know the area best.

Payments & Cash Collection
Our solutions include innovative payment options and secure cash collection services, making it easier for customers in cash-based economies to access convenient delivery.

MOA with the Taxi Industry
Through our joint venture with the Taxi Industry, we are leveraging the taxi industry’s extensive network to enhance our delivery capacity and support local entrepreneurs.

Reliable Q-Commerce for Fast Deliveries
Our quick-commerce model ensures that customers receive their orders quickly and reliably, meeting the growing demand for convenience in township markets.

What We’ve Achieved with our Retail Partners

Shelfline has been a pivotal partner for retailers, delivering innovative solutions that enhance their operations and customer satisfaction. Here’s what we’ve accomplished:

Creating Out-of-the-Box Solutions
We’ve developed tailored delivery and logistics models that address the unique challenges of retailers diverse customer base in underserved areas.

Increased Efficiency
By optimizing delivery routes, leveraging local driver networks, and streamlining payment systems, we’ve significantly enhanced operational efficiency for retailers.

Increased Agility & Flexibility
Our solutions enable retailers to adapt quickly to market changes, including fluctuating customer demands and dynamic delivery conditions.

Improved Scalability
Through our robust delivery infrastructure, retailers can now scale its services to reach more customers across broader regions with minimal friction.

Enhanced Customer Experience
With reliable, safe, and fast deliveries, we’ve helped retailers build trust and loyalty among its customers, creating a seamless shopping-to-delivery experience.

Reduced Costs through Asset Optimization
By utilizing existing local networks, such as taxi and Avanza fleets, we’ve minimized capital expenditure and operational costs, allowing retailers to deliver high-value services at a lower cost.

Our Unique Selling Proposition (USP)

Shelfline stands apart through our commitment to driving meaningful change and delivering results:

Innovative Approach
We think beyond conventional delivery models, crafting solutions that cater specifically to underserved communities.

Local Empowerment
Our focus on employing licensed, community-based drivers ensures economic growth stays local while fostering trust within neighborhoods.

Agile and Scalable Solutions
We design systems that grow with our partners, maintaining flexibility to adapt to changing needs.

Cost-Effective Operations
Through asset optimization and collaboration with partners like Santanco, we deliver high-impact services while keeping costs low.

Unmatched Customer Focus
By prioritizing speed, safety, and reliability, we ensure an exceptional experience for end-users, building loyalty and satisfaction.

By combining community impact with operational excellence, Shelfline has become an indispensable partner for retailers, empowering them to serve their customers better while achieving their business goals.

We are all about B2B2C
Business and services to community, delivered by the community.

Entrepreneur

Empowering Entrepreneurs

Be your own boss! Your time, your day, your money! Grow with Taxi connect from a taxipreneur to an entrepreneur.

When you start your journey us, you will be empowered to drive impact across the communities, create jobs for the communities, delivering what the community needs. Safe, reliable and fast delivery is no longer just for urban areas, its for all.

Spaza

Enriching Local Businesses

Bringing efficient delivery of goods to spaza stores, taverns and homes in townships, rural areas and villages.

Store to door delivery means you get your orders quickly and safely. We have built the largest delivery platform in Africa, ensuring reliable delivery simply by partnering with TaxiConnect!

Taxi

Creating Jobs

We enable minibus taxi drivers, other ride hailing solution drivers and delivery entrepreneurs to join our platform and add to their revenue streams.

TaxiConnect will help you access markets previously unavailable helping you earn more while servicing the communities you are passionate about.

Our offer to you
Safe, reliable & fast delivery.

Safe

Safe and secured deliveries delivered by the communities and creating trust with driver profiles and identities plus knowing the community member.

Reliable

Multi-delivery solutions offering convenient delivery solutions delivered on nominated delivery time slots covering all routes in the townships and rural communities.

Fast

Taxi Connect utilises different types of vehicles in your community while offering multi delivery solutions allowing for us to deliver same day, on time and tracking your delivery.

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"Taxi operators transport over 15 million commuters every day"

- Stats SA Household Survey

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“Taxi Connect has made sure that i receive my stock safely and on time. I used to make 3 trips to stock up my shop. Taxi Connect saves me time and money.”

Kay Mailula
Spaza Shop Entrepreneur

"In TaxiConnect, Shelfline has developed technology to solve unemployment through a mix of human capital interventions with the right training models for SME and entrepreneurs sustainability."

Nhlanhla Ndlovu
NEDLAC Community Trust

"We are in full support of Shelfline South Africa's solution to digitise the Township economy and offer an E-commerce delivery solution which will capacitate, emancipate and deliver a new revenue stream for the transport sector"

Matsidikanye Moswane
Chief Government & Industry Officer - SA Taxi

"TaxiConnect offers us a unique last metre delivery solution and is the final step of our 121 process. The TaxiConnect offering is the most cost effective and efficient solution for us."

Tradeport

Hub & Spoke Partner

"TaxiConnect's digitization of rural and Township areas provides these areas with skills and therefore capacitating taxi owner and driver SME's as well as unemployed youth to take part in the last metre delivery ecosystem."

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