ONDC growth: 40x jump in merchants this year so far; orders peak to 25,000 per day

Ease of doing business for MSMEs: The number of retail merchants on the government’s open e-commerce network Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) has grown by 40 times in 2023 so far, the latter said in a statement on Thursday. In September last year, ONDC had started its beta testing with grocery and food delivery segments in Bengaluru.

Since then, the network has seen “quantum leaps especially in the last few months,” ONDC said with the number of “retail merchants increased from over 800 in January 2023 to more than 35,000 as of now, while the number of orders increased from 50 per day in Jan to peak at 25,000+ orders per day in the last week.”

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