Business deliveries and stock moves in Lagos

Built for Lagos businesses that move goods often

If you run a shop in Lagos, moving goods is part of the week. Monday is restock day at Trade Fair, Wednesday a customer wants twenty cartons delivered to Ajah, and on Friday the stock in the store has to come down to the shop. Finding a vehicle for each trip takes time you could spend selling.

Sphere gives you one place to book a truck or pickup van when you need one. You set up the job, propose a price, and verified drivers nearby accept or send a counter-offer.

Common business jobs on Sphere

• Market restocks: goods collected from markets and suppliers and brought to your shop.
• Shop-to-store transfers: stock moved between your shop, warehouse or storage space.
• Bulk customer orders: furniture, appliances, building materials or cartons of product delivered to the buyer.
• Event and exhibition loads: stands, chairs, sound equipment and display units.
• Online sellers: the bulky orders a dispatch rider on a bike cannot carry.

Choose the right vehicle

Book a pickup van for regular restocks, medium orders and single bulky items. The app lists it for loads up to 2,400kg.

Book a truck for large stock transfers, moving a whole shop and heavy bulk orders.

Make your deliveries run smoothly

Settle into a weekly rhythm. If you restock on the same days each week, planning gets easier for you and for the drivers who pick up your jobs.

Have the load counted, packed and waiting at the pickup point before the driver arrives.

Tell drivers exactly where to park. Markets and busy streets are hard to reach, and many have set times when loading is allowed. A line like "park by the filling station, the shop is the second one after the pharmacy" saves everyone time.

Make sure someone is at the drop-off to receive the goods and count them.

And keep a simple record of what went on each trip. When a customer says a carton is missing, you can check it in a minute.