Transforming E-Commerce: Shiprocket Collaborates with Skye Air for Groundbreaking Drone Deliveries
Shiprocket, India’s leading E-Commerce Enablement Platform, has announced its ground-breaking collaboration with Skye Air, India’s leading SaaS based drone delivery solution provider. This strategic partnership is set to revolutionize the e-commerce landscape and introduce a game-changing capability to deliver shipments via drones. As the first-of-its-kind offering in India, this transformative alliance showcases Shiprocket’s unwavering commitment to pushing the boundaries of technology to bring better solutions to its sellers and customers.
The partnership enables faster order fulfilment within urban traffic congestion with the help of Skye Air’s autonomous drone logistics solutions. By integrating drones with highly adaptable on-demand interfaces, Skye Air minimizes disruptions to partner operational processes, thereby enhancing shipping capabilities and ensuring unparalleled customer satisfaction for both B2B and B2C operations. This innovative partnership will debut in Gurgaon with over 5 drones. The introduction of drone delivery services will not only provide Shiprocket sellers with the ability to offer same-day and next-day deliveries but also revolutionize the entire delivery process, making it more efficient, eco-friendly, and customer-centric.
“Shiprocket is on a mission to empower Indian merchants with inclusive, tech-driven solutions to ease their business operations,” said Saahil Goel, Co-Founder & CEO of Shiprocket. “Our collaboration with Skye Air represents a significant step towards achieving that goal and propelling the e-commerce landscape towards future advancements throughout India. By introducing drone delivery services in Gurgaon, we are redefining the future of e-commerce and providing our sellers with a competitive edge in the market.”
“Skye Air is dedicated to revolutionizing drone delivery and making it a mainstream logistics solution in India, and our collaboration with Shiprocket is a significant step in that direction,” said Ankit Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO of Skye Air. “By leveraging our state-of-the-art tech stack and infrastructure, including Skye Pod and Skye Tunnel, we aim to enable faster, safer, and more efficient deliveries. Together, we are paving the way for same-day and next-day deliveries, providing an unmatched delivery experience for Shiprocket’s merchant base.”
The partners will enable merchants to opt for drone delivery just like any other logistics service. Central to this partnership is Skye Air’s one-click, seamless, plug-and-play solution that seamlessly connects fleets with the unmanned airspace, ensuring compliance and safety. As a cloud-based service, Skye UTM is adaptable and can be deployed in any country or region with ease, making it a perfect fit for Shiprocket’s dynamic operations.
About Shiprocket:
Shiprocket is India’s largest eCommerce enablement platform on a mission to empower the businesses of Bharat to scale their ventures by unleashing the true power of eCommerce. The platform helps the sellers at every step of their eCommerce journey, creating an operating system for direct commerce. Their stack of tech integrations enables shipping, fulfilment, customer communication and marketing tools as well as providers for SMEs, D2C retailers, and social commerce retailers in India.
Launched in 2017, Shiprocket is on a mission to create a seamless logistics data platform that connects retailers, carriers, and consumers across national and international locations. Shiprocket provides a technology stack to help retailers integrate their shopping websites on Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, Zoho, and others with the platform’s multi-carrier API to manage orders, prints, and shipping labels. It also avails tracking information from multiple providers including managing Cash on Delivery (COD) orders and payment reconciliation. Shiprocket also offers state-of-the-art fulfilment solutions with more than 45 warehouses located across India. The technology stack provides a robust post-purchase experience to consumers resulting in higher engagement and lower RTO (failed deliveries). With 25+ courier partners on board, the brand permits pan-India as well as international shipping deliveries. Its shipping solutions are available across 24,000+ pin codes within India and 220 countries and territories worldwide.
About Skye Air:
Skye Air is India’s leading drone delivery company with base of operations in Delhi-NCR. The company is focused on streamlining drone deliveries as a mainstream logistics solution for healthcare, e-commerce, quick commerce, agri-commodity and other industries.
The company is marking its monopoly in multiple geographies across India working with major companies across sectors. The mission of the company is to enable faster, sustainable, cost-effective and efficient deliveries across verticals and bring in the rightful impact to reduce cost and time for its clients.
The company has also conducted the World’s longest BVLOS medicine delivery flight with Flipkart Health of 104 km between Baruipur and Medinipur in West Bengal delivering medicines reducing the delivery time by ~80% compared to conventional means. Using its drone delivery technology, the company has penetrated various urban, semi-urban, and remote areas of the country.
