Indian highways include tunnels, ghats, and weak coverage. Drivers feel that immediately. TranZfort keeps marketplace browse, booking, and chat on a secure cloud backend. On the phone we add helpers for brief disconnects.
What works through a short drop
- Some pending actions can queue and retry when you reconnect
- City search can fall back to a local list when Maps is unavailable
- Language and read-aloud controls stay on the device UI
What still needs internet
- Posting a load
- Marketplace search and booking requests
- Live chat sync
- Uploading proofs and advancing trip stages that depend on the server
Design principle
Optimistic local feedback is useful. Pretending every marketplace action completed offline is not. Conflict handling and final state stay server-authoritative when two users act on the same load.
If you see older copy that says "every action works offline," treat it as outdated. The Play-safe wording is: marketplace online, helpers when signal dips.
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