Namaste for Business: your listing, your offers and your events, from a laptop

Until now, everything a business did on Namaste happened inside the app, on a phone. That is fine for posting a question. It is not how anybody runs a shop. The menu is on the laptop at the counter, the flyer for Saturday is a PDF somebody emailed, and the owner has a till to watch while they type.

So there is now a place built for that: namaste.community/biz. We call it Namaste for Business. It uses the same account as the app — the same email and password, or Google, or Apple — so an owner who is already on Namaste simply signs in.

🧰 What you can do there

📷 Start from a photo

Most offers already exist as a picture: a flyer in the window, a board by the door, a post you made somewhere else. So instead of retyping it, you can hand the photo to the assistant in the portal. It reads the flyer and fills in a draft — the title, the dates, the price, the details.

It only ever proposes. What comes back is an ordinary form with the fields already filled in, and every one of them is yours to change. Nothing is sent anywhere until you have checked it, ticked the box confirming the information may be published, and pressed submit. If you would rather type, the same forms are one button away.

Getting started

1. 1

   Sign in, or create an account

   Already on Namaste? Sign in with the account you use in the app. New here? Create one — it takes a minute, and you do not need the app to do it.
2. 2

   Verify your phone

   One text message. Until then you can draft as much as you like, but nothing goes to the team for review — it keeps the directory to businesses with a real person at the end of a number.
3. 3

   Add your business

   From a photo or from the form. You will see it marked as in review, and hear from us once it is live.
4. 4

   Post your first offer

   Once the listing is approved, a photo of your flyer is enough to start one.

📊 What the numbers do — and don’t — tell you

The Performance page counts views of your business, and separately of each offer and event, over the last few days or all time. Next to them sit the two numbers that matter more: how many people asked for your contact details, and how many left an enquiry.

Tell us what is missing

This is the first version, and the people it is for are the ones who know what it still gets wrong. Inside the portal, Something wrong? Tell us reaches a person, and so does WhatsApp. If the assistant misreads your flyer, or a form asks for something your business simply does not have, that is exactly what we want to hear.

And if you know a shop, a restaurant or a tailor that should be on Namaste — send them namaste.community/biz.