Can someone buy fabric at Kantin Kwari for me?

Yes. Send your sample as a photo on the errand, set the most they may spend, and they photograph what they find at the stall before paying. If it is wrong, nothing has moved.

How do I make sure the colour matches?

Put the sample photo on the errand, ask for the stall photo in daylight, and if you need several pieces say they must come from the same lot in one visit.

Can they drop it at my tailor afterwards?

Yes, if the tailor is in Kano — a runner can only work inside the city the errand was posted in. Put the drop-off in the errand and it becomes the handover point.

How much can a runner spend at Kantin Kwari?

Never more than your ceiling, and never more than their verification tier allows. Both limits apply and the lower one wins.

Zendrun

Send someone to Kantin Kwari

Fabric is the one thing a description never settles. Send a verified runner to Kantin Kwari with your sample, see it photographed under the stall light, and pay only once you have said yes.

Run errands in Kano

No runners in Kano yet

Zendrun started in Ibadan and Lagos. You can post this errand and it will sit on the board until a verified runner in Kano takes it — so if you need it this week, that is the honest answer. If you are in Kano and want the work, every errand posted here is yours to take.

Colour needs eyes on it, so the photo comes before the money

A shade described over the phone and a shade in your hand are different things, and nobody has ever been talked into the right lace. The runner photographs the fabric at the stall before they pay — that is the whole point of the errand — and if it is not right, nothing has left escrow. Ask for the photo in daylight if the shade matters.

What people send a runner to Kantin Kwari for

One of the largest fabric markets in West Africa, and the reason people travel to Kano to buy cloth.

Wax print, lace, brocade and atamfa matched against a sample you photograph.
Enough of one piece for a family occasion, bought in one trip so the dye lot matches.
Bulk buying for a tailoring business, priced across stalls before committing.
A specific bale or design chased down the lines when nobody nearer has it.
Cloth bought at Kantin Kwari and dropped at a tailor elsewhere in Kano.

Same dye lot, same errand

If you need several pieces to match, say so in the errand and say how many — a runner who buys six yards now and six tomorrow has bought you two different colours. One errand, one stall, one lot is the instruction that saves the occasion.

How the money works

You set the ceiling; it is held from your wallet with the runner's fee and the platform fee before the errand goes live. They pay at the stall with their own money and escrow pays them back when you enter the 6-digit handover code. Above your ceiling they ask first and wait.

Questions people ask

Can someone buy fabric at Kantin Kwari for me?: Yes. Send your sample as a photo on the errand, set the most they may spend, and they photograph what they find at the stall before paying. If it is wrong, nothing has moved.
How do I make sure the colour matches?: Put the sample photo on the errand, ask for the stall photo in daylight, and if you need several pieces say they must come from the same lot in one visit.
Can they drop it at my tailor afterwards?: Yes, if the tailor is in Kano — a runner can only work inside the city the errand was posted in. Put the drop-off in the errand and it becomes the handover point.
How much can a runner spend at Kantin Kwari?: Never more than your ceiling, and never more than their verification tier allows. Both limits apply and the lower one wins.

Where this can be run today

This market is in Kano, which has no runners yet. Runners are on the ground in Ibadan and Lagos. Everywhere else the board is open and empty, so an errand posted there waits for a first runner.

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