Your catalogue in a single image, sent in chat

There is a message people who sell in chat receive more than any other, and it is not "how much". It is "what have you got?". It comes from a new customer, from an old one who has not been by in a while, from the one you already sent it to last week but who cannot find it any more.

And every time the answer is the same effort: you type ten lines by hand, you hunt for photos in the gallery, you send them one at a time, and halfway through another message arrives and you lose the thread.

Why a website is not the answer

The first idea is "I'll make a website, or a page, and send the link". It works less well than it seems, for three concrete reasons:

• the link leaves the chat: another app opens, and in that other app the customer is one tap from anything else;
• the site has to be kept up to date, and a site with old prices is worse than no site;
• in many places the network comes and goes, and a page that does not load is a customer who does not buy.

The customer did not ask for an online shop. They asked what you have. They want to look, not browse.

What actually works: a photo

An image with your items inside — photo, name, price, grouped by category, with your name at the top — solves everything at once:

• it opens in any chat, on any phone, even with no network;
• the customer does not have to install anything or open any address;
• it stays in their gallery: when they want to reorder they find it, instead of writing "what have you got?" again.

It is an illustrated price list. The customer looks at it and writes "send me two of that one". The sale stays in the chat, where it was.

How Yataio does it

Yataio's showcase is exactly this: your stock turned into a single image. From the stock you choose what goes in — everything, a category, or a hand-picked selection — and the app builds the image with photos, names and prices taken from the items you already have. What you see is what will arrive.

You send it in chat or save it to the gallery to reuse. If you change a price, you make a new one in two taps, with the updated data.

It is part of the Pro version, together with documents carrying your logo and colours: the showcase carries your header at the top, so whoever receives it knows straight away whose it is.

The showcase is explained in the guide. If the problem is answering the same things over and over, there is an article on ready-made phrases; if it is knowing what you have left before saying "yes, I have it", this one.