Connect your products to the businesses that need them using TaxiConnect as your logistics partner.
Ensure secured delivery of your basket and shopping essentials from one of our partner wholesalers or retailers.
Unlock new income revenue streams and expand your Taxi business into the delivery of goods and services.
Earn delivery fees in your down hours delivering goods and services to businesses in your area.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Safe and secured deliveries delivered by the communities and creating trust with driver profiles and identities plus knowing the community member.
Multi-delivery solutions offering convenient delivery solutions delivered on nominated delivery time slots covering all routes in the townships and rural communities.
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.
"Taxi operators transport over 15 million commuters every day"
- Stats SA Household Survey