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Show the licence, the van and the delivery hour before a purchase manager asks.

A website for an institutional food supplier is the page a purchase manager, warden or trust checks after receiving your rate sheet: the items, the licence, the vehicles, the delivery area and a form that asks for the kitchen's size and slot. GullySales builds it so a buyer can vet you without a call and you receive an enquiry you can quote.

Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

A supplier and buyer review dry goods for institutional kitchens

What website means

A website is the page a customer lands on after searching, clicking an advert or scanning a code, and it decides whether they call or leave. GullySales builds and maintains sites that load quickly, explain the offer plainly and make the enquiry form or phone number easy to find.

Last updated 6 Oct 2026.

For institutional food suppliers

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The site looks like a grocery shop”

    A cart and a kilo price tell a hostel manager you sell to homes. Bulk buyers want items, grades and a way to ask.

  • “Photographs show produce, not the operation”

    A heap of tomatoes does not say whether the van reaches the hostel by five. Show the loading bay, the vehicles, the cold room and the packing.

  • “The form asks for a name and a phone number only”

    A warden's real question is the head count, items and hour. Without those fields you get a number to call back and nothing to quote.

What we do

What we deliver for institutional food suppliers.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. A home page that names the kitchens you supply

    The kinds of kitchen, the items, the delivery area and the first hour of delivery, in the first screen.

    Result: A buyer knows in seconds whether you serve their kind of kitchen.

  2. Item pages with grade and pack

    Each product line with varieties, pack sizes, minimum order and the source, written as text.

    Result: A buyer can compare you without asking.

  3. A credentials page

    FSSAI licence as printed, GST registration, vehicles, storage and handling, and past supply letters you may share.

    Result: Onboarding questions are answered before they are asked.

  4. An enquiry form for kitchens

    Kitchen name, meals cooked, items, delivery hour, a sample request and a WhatsApp number.

    Result: Each enquiry arrives ready to quote.

  5. Photographs of the operation

    A shoot plan for the loading bay, vans, cold room, packing and the delivery at a kitchen door, with permission from anyone shown.

    Result: A buyer sees the supplier, not only the stock.

  6. Enquiry tracking by page

    Which pages the enquiries came from and which became trials, against the baseline recorded when work starts.

    Result: You know which page brings the right kitchens.

How the result is measured

  • Page load time
  • Bounce rate
  • Enquiries from the website

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

What the page must show

What a food supplier's website must show before a purchase manager or warden forwards it.

FSSAI licence and GST number
Print the licence number and category as on the certificate, with the GST number, in the footer and on the credentials page. Update it when the licence is renewed.
Items, grades and pack sizes
A table by item with the grade or variety, the pack and the minimum order. A buyer who must ask what you carry will ask another supplier instead.
Delivery area and hour
Name the localities your vans reach, the order cut-off and the hour of delivery. A kitchen planning an early cook checks this before the rate.
Vehicles, storage and handling
Photographs of the vans, the cold room if you have one and the packing area, each captioned with what it is for. Do not show a cold chain you do not run.
Kitchens you supply
Name an institution only with its written permission. Otherwise describe the kind: a hostel, a hospital kitchen, a canteen. Never imply an endorsement.
A form that asks about the kitchen
Ask for the kitchen's name, meals cooked, items, delivery hour and a sample request, with a WhatsApp number. Send the answers into the same record as phone enquiries.

Who it is for

This is written for these institutional food suppliers.

  • Rice, dal and grain suppliers for hostels and canteens
  • Fresh vegetable and fruit suppliers
  • Dairy, paneer and egg suppliers
  • Meat, poultry and fish suppliers
  • Edible oil, spice and grocery wholesalers
  • Frozen and processed food suppliers for hotels and restaurants
  • Suppliers to school meal and government hostel kitchens
  • One-stop suppliers who deliver a kitchen's full list

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Your licences and papers are not up to date, so a credentials page would publish documents you could not support.
  • Nobody answers the site form during the day, and a form that goes unanswered looks worse than no form.

How it works

How the website work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Confirm structure and content

    We agree the page list, what each page must answer, and who supplies the text and photographs, before any design starts.

  2. 2

    Design the templates

    The home page, a service page, a location page and the enquiry page are designed first, on phone and desktop, and shown to you.

  3. 3

    Build and test

    The site is built and checked on real phones and the common browsers. Every form, call button and WhatsApp link is tested end to end.

  4. 4

    Load real content

    Actual copy, images and information replace placeholders. Pages are read through once by you, since you spot wrong details we cannot.

  5. 5

    Check before launch

    Tracking, page titles, the sitemap and the privacy page are checked on the staging site. If an old site exists, its addresses are mapped so old links still land somewhere.

  6. 6

    Launch and hand over access

    The site goes live and we record the domain, hosting, content login and analytics in your name. The first live enquiry is traced to confirm tracking works.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2 · you are here

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.

We are on IndiaMART. Why do we need our own website?
A directory listing is rented space, and your rivals sit beside you on it. A buyer who gets your rate sheet will look you up, and your own site is the one place where the licence, vehicles and delivery area are yours to show. Keep both saying the same thing.
Should the site be in Kannada or Hindi as well as English?
Write in the language of the person who reads. Purchase offices and corporate buyers read English; wardens and kitchen managers may find the local language easier. Start with English and add the local language for the kitchen-facing pages when your enquiries show the need.
Will the site load on a kitchen manager's phone?
Most of your kitchen buyers will open it on a phone with an uneven connection. Keep photographs light, write the item table as text rather than an image or a heavy PDF, and test it on a mid-range phone before launch.
Who should own the domain and the hosting?
The company, registered in the name of a director or the business and renewed from an account you control. Keep the login with the owner, not with a salesman or a freelancer. If a developer holds the domain, moving it later becomes a negotiation.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

Your next practical step

Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps, mostly taps. Skip anything you would rather answer on the call.