Frequently Asked Questions

Any business owned or run by an NRI – Indian restaurants and grocery stores, but also accountants, trades, salons, IT services, Italian or Chinese restaurants, or any other kind of business.

Nothing. Listing your business on NRIScope is free.

Create a free account, open Add Listing and choose Business. Fill in your details and submit – our team checks every listing before it goes live, and you will receive an email as soon as it is published.

Every new listing – and every change to a listing – is checked by our team before it appears on the site. You will receive an email as soon as it is published. If you have been waiting more than a few days, please contact us.

Yes. Log in and open My Listings to update your details, opening hours, photos or menu / price list. Changes are checked by our team before they go live.

When adding or editing your listing, choose Yes for “Do you have a current offer?” and add the offer title, details and dates. An offer can run for up to 30 days. It shows on your listing, on your card and in your city’s Current Offers & Deals, can be shared on WhatsApp or through your phone’s own share options (Facebook, Messenger, SMS and more), and disappears automatically after the end date.

Yes. Edit your listing, set Temporarily closed? to Yes and add the closed-from and reopening dates, with an optional short message. Visitors see a holiday notice before and during the closure, and it disappears automatically after you reopen.

It is worked out from the opening hours you enter and the local time in your city, so please keep your hours up to date. If no opening hours are entered, the label is not shown.

Yes. Add your items or services with an optional quantity / size and price. Your menu or price list gets its own link and QR code, so customers can open it straight from their phone.

You can add one main image plus up to 4 more photos. Use JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 2 MB each – large phone photos are resized automatically before upload.

• Main image – a photo: best size 1200 × 675 pixels, landscape (16:9). The whole photo is always shown, never cropped.
• Main image – a logo: best size 800 × 800 pixels, square. A PNG with a transparent or white background looks cleanest.
• Gallery photos: best size 1200 × 800 pixels, landscape (3:2). Keep the main subject in the middle, because the gallery previews may trim the edges.

By browsing your city on NRIScope, by typing in the search box on your city page, through Google search, and when people share your listing or your offers on WhatsApp and social media.

Our search reads much more than your business name. It also looks at your Business Type, your Services Offered, your Menu / Price List, your Business Description, the languages you speak, your Regional Speciality and your suburb. The more complete your listing, the more searches it appears in – and the higher it shows.

• List every service you offer under Services Offered, one per line, in the words customers actually use – for example “Roof restoration”, “Gutter cleaning” and “Hot water repairs”, not only “Plumbing”.
• Write a clear Business Description: what you do, what you specialise in, the areas you cover and anything special about you – for example “Authentic Gujarati thali and farsan, catering for weddings and functions across Perth”.
• Add your menu or price list items by their real names – for example “Amritsari Kulcha”, “Masala Dosa” or “Bridal Mehndi”.
• Tick every language you and your staff speak, and choose the right Business Type and Regional Speciality.
• Keep your suburb and postcode correct, so people searching their area find you.

Tip: think of the words a customer would type into the search box and make sure they appear somewhere in your listing. Please keep it accurate – only list services you really offer. Listings with misleading information may be removed.