Snapdeal launches home security consulting services in partnership with Godrej

Snapdeal, India’s largest online marketplace, has announced an exclusive partnership with Godrej Security Solutions, a leader in the home security industry for over a century.

As a part of the partnership, experts from Godrej Security Consulting Services will visit Snapdeal customers, do a thorough needs-assessment, and suggest measures to make their homes more secure. The consultants will also demonstrate the products and share details on the features of various security products available in the market as well as help in installation of the selected products.

On the partnership, Tony Navin, Senior Vice President, Partnerships and Strategic initiatives, Snapdeal, said “Snapdeal’s integration with a leading service provider like Godrej Security Solutions is envisioned to provide a multi-touchpoint shopping experience spanning products and services. We at Snapdeal, are re-imagining how people shop online by constantly evolving and adapting to ways that will enhance the experience for its customers to further improve scale as we aim to achieve 20 million daily transacting users by 2020.”

The service will be available in Mumbai, Thane, Panvel, Navi Mumbai, New Delhi and Gurgaon. To avail this service, customer will have to buy a coupon worth Rs. 500 from Snapdeal which would enable the visit of service engineer.  The service engineer will provide extensive details on Home Security Solution as well as promo code of Rs 500 which can be redeemed on future Godrej Security Solutions product purchases on Snapdeal thus making the service practically free. To add to this, customer can also avail free installation on select products.

“One of the biggest impediments to the adoption of security solutions in India has been the lack of awareness of products, services and the effectiveness of the same,” said Mehernosh Pithawalla, Head-marketing, sales and innovation, Godrej Security Solutions.

“The security solution requirements differ from location to location and with the degree of security layers one needs to deploy. Often consumers face challenge in sourcing the right security experts to help them understand the best practices to make their homes safer. The consultancy service not just helps consumers to understand best security practices from experts but also offers an easy way to ascertain the security requirements virtually free-of-cost. We are happy to partner with the leading e-commerce player Snapdeal, and are sure that this partnership will help us create more awareness on the need to increase proactive adoption of home security solutions in the country,” he added.