A directory lists your shop. Flipns lists what is in it.

How Flipns compares to Justdial for local businesses in India: a free catalogue of the products you sell, with prices and stock, not only a phone number.

A business directory answers “who sells this near me” with a phone number. It is a genuinely useful thing, and it is not the same thing as being able to show the item, the price and whether it is in stock. Flipns gives a local seller a free public page with the products on it.

What Justdial is built for

Justdial is a local search and business directory: buyers look for a category of business in their area, and businesses receive enquiries. It is built around connecting a buyer to a business, and it is good at exactly that.

Flipns and Justdial, side by side

Capability	Flipns	Justdial
What gets published	Individual products, each with photos, a price in rupees, a condition and stock, plus a seller page that collects them all.	A business listing — name, address, hours, categories and photos — that can also showcase the products and services the business offers.
What a buyer sees before contacting you	The exact item, its price, its condition, your rating, your badges and how long you have traded.	Your business details and whatever the directory shows for your category.
How a buyer reaches you	In-app chat with structured offers, optional forwarding of messages to WhatsApp or SMS, and an option to publish your verified number on a listing for 100 credits.	Calls, chat or WhatsApp, and price enquiries, started from the business's listing.
Cost	Free to publish your page and your products, with no commission. Promotion is optional and priced per listing.	Free and paid business-listing tiers, set by the platform.
Your page	Every active listing and seller catalogue has a public link you can share. Buyers can open the link to see photos, asking prices, condition and seller details before contacting the seller.	A business profile within the directory.
Reach beyond the platform	Every active listing and seller catalogue has a public link you can share. Buyers can open the link to see photos, asking prices, condition and seller details before contacting the seller.	Every active listing and seller catalogue has a public link you can share. Buyers can open the link to see photos, asking prices, condition and seller details before contacting the seller.

When Justdial is the better choice

No platform wins on everything. These are the cases where Justdial may fit your needs better.

You are a service business — a clinic, a repair shop, a caterer — where the thing being bought is not an item with a price on it.
You want enquiry calls routed to you rather than messages from buyers about specific products.
Your customers already search that directory by habit for your category.

Take an offline shop online in an afternoon

Add clear photos and accurate details, choose your asking price and review your listing before publishing. Creating and publishing a listing is free.

When you are done, flipns.com/u/<handle> is your shopfront: everything you have live, your ratings, your badges, one link to put on a board, a bill, a WhatsApp status or a visiting card.

Free to publish, with no commission on anything you sell
Multiple units of the same item, so stock works properly
Fresh stock and one-off items side by side under one profile
Reveal your verified phone or WhatsApp number on a listing if you would rather be called

Being found is the point

Every active listing and seller catalogue has a public link you can share. Buyers can open the link to see photos, asking prices, condition and seller details before contacting the seller.

Category and city pages sit above your listings and link down into them, which is how a search for a category in your city can reach a shop it has never heard of.

Where a directory still wins

If what you sell is a service rather than an item — you fix things, you cater, you teach — a marketplace built around products with prices is the wrong shape, and a directory is the right one. Flipns lists goods, property and jobs.

It is also worth being clear that Flipns is new. A directory that has been running for decades has habit on its side, and habit is worth a great deal. Being on both costs nothing.

Justdial is a trademark of its owner, which is not affiliated with or endorsing Flipns. Statements about Justdial were last checked on 2026-10-11.

Frequently asked questions

How can a local shop publish its products online for free in India?

Every active listing and seller catalogue has a public link you can share. Buyers can open the link to see photos, asking prices, condition and seller details before contacting the seller.

Is Flipns a business directory?

No. A directory lists businesses; Flipns lists the products themselves, with photos, prices, condition and stock, plus a seller page that gathers them together. If you sell services rather than items, a directory is the better fit.

What does it cost a business to sell on Flipns?

Nothing to publish, and no commission on a sale. Credits are optional and buy visibility — 10 credits to feature a listing for a day, 8 to bump it back to the top — with welcome-credit eligibility shown in the app.

Can customers call me directly?

Yes, if you want them to. Revealing your verified phone or WhatsApp number publicly on a listing costs 100 credits and is a per-listing choice. Otherwise buyers reach you through Flipns chat, and messages can be forwarded to WhatsApp or SMS for 0.25 credits each.

Sources

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