FAQ

SHOPPING INFORMATION

Our offices are located at

Fumba Road

Langoni – Maungani next to Majid Huda

Zan Fiber Solution, – P, O, BOX 750

Maungani, Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Prices can change at any time without notice. This can happen when a new stock arrives, the offer/discount is no longer valid.

No. The nature of our business is online shopping (e-commerce). You can see products on the website, read the descriptions and make a purchase.

No. If you have that much time, we would advise you to go to Darajani, Kariakoo or other marketplace to buy items. Online shopping means everything happens online.

Yes, and other payments are done online through our website. We accept mobile money, debit & credit cards.

Yes, other payments should be done before delivery.

YARISK is a company that is registered and licensed to do online business in Tanzania. We also work with trusted companies that collects payments on our behalf.

You can pay online directly using mobile money (Vodacom Mpesa, Tigo Pesa, Ezypesa or Airtel Money) and Credits cards. Bank Transfer is available for Companies and individuals whose total purchasing amount exceed 3 million. Please contact us to give you quotation, Pro-forma invoice and bank details.

We provide quotation/pro-forma invoices to companies only. You need to provide details of the company including company email address.

Products are available in Tanzania and are ready for shipment. It can take 1 – 3 days to receive your order depending on where you live and when you placed your order.

No. The price is fixed.

Depends. We will only refund a customer in full when a product is out of stock. Please read our refund and return policy

No. You should read products descriptions carefully before purchasing.

Yes, we do

You can see the approximated delivery fee on products page or when checking out. We won’t charge you more than what is displayed.

Depends on where you live and when you placed your order. You can read more about shipping policy

No. YARISK website is operational 24/7 but delivery is done during business days Monday – Friday.

No. We can not guarantee that an item will arrive at a certain date and time. Things can happen that are out of our control that can cause delays, please plan accordingly.

Yes. We deliver products to all places in Tanzania. You can read more about shipping policy

Only smaller items less than 1kg. Please contact us for a quote.

No.  YARISK is a company that is registered and licensed to do online business in Tanzania.

Absolutely.

To place an order at our store, use one of the following methods:

Pick an item on the website, add to shopping cart then click check out. If you are not logged in already, and you are not a returning customer, please take a moment to fill out the form then proceed to make payments by selecting any of the available options. OR call +255 742 234037 to get assistance with placing your order, over the phone. 

You can pay using the following methods:

Mobile money using the mobile money options available.

Bank card, using our secure on-line platform. Take note that you will be directed to a safe website to effect this payment.

Using PayPal by logging into your PayPal account and choosing to us with our email: info@yarisk.com . Please select payment for goods and quote the number of your invoice

Your billing address helps the bank confirm that you are who you say you are. Your may be rejected if the card number is wrong, or if your address does not match the address the bank card sends its bills to. The billing address may also be the shipping address, so they can be sure you are not a criminal who has stolen a card and wants stuff sent direct to a motel room.

We use a secure server for your order. A secure server is a computer that uses software that protects your personal and bank card information. At the time of making the payment, you will be taken off our store site to a secure site.

MasterCard and Visa and American Express. This may be updated from time to time.

At the end of checkout, you are asked whether you want to submit the order or clear the form. Submitting the order just means sending the order in officially, committing yourself to the purchase. Generally, the system digests the order, checks with your bank card company, checks product availability, then comes back with a confirmation showing what you ordered, where it will be sent, and oh yes, what the order ID or confirmation number is. Save this number. If possible, print this confirmation page or save it on your hard disk, because this number is what you need to use to track your order or cancel.

If you have ordered something tangible, like a book, your order goes right into our computer system and enters the queue of products to be shipped. The product itself may be “picked” from a warehouse shelf in anywhere from a few hours to a few days if the item is in stock, in two to four weeks if it is out of stock or back-ordered, and in six to eight weeks if you asked for engraving, customization, or hand crafting.

Common causes include:

You can easily have made a typo in that long string of numbers. Recheck. (If you entered spaces between those blocks of numbers, try again without any spaces.)

Perhaps you typed in a version of your name that does not match the name on the card or on the billing.

Maybe you typed in a billing address that is different from the one the bank card recognizes.

Perhaps you typed or selected the wrong expiration date.

Any one of these mistakes will result in a turndown. We find it helps to have the card right in front of you when you re-enter the information. And if you get bumped two or three times, well, try a different card. Then call the original card company and find out if you have reached your limit.

Do your part by printing out the form before you submit it, and then printing and saving the confirmation that should come up directly after you submit the order.

We will confirm
a) on the screen, right after you send the order in, or
b) by email, or
c) both ways.

Once you see the confirmation, the order has been placed and you cannot easily change it. If you see a terrible mistake, look for a customer service number or email, and call or send a message within 15 minutes of submitting the order. The faster you intervene, the better. The confirmation may be called a purchase verification, and you are sometimes asked, one more time, to confirm that you really, really want to place this order.

If you do not receive a confirmation by email within 24 hours, in addition to a confirming message on screen, you should call our customer service numbers, to make sure all is well. You may have typed in a wrong email address, and someone who has an address very like yours may be wondering, what the confirmation email is about.

You need to act quickly, because we ship quickly, and once the product has been shipped you cannot completely cancel. You may be able to plan for a return, but you will often be charged for shipping costs. Phone Customer Service, so you can talk with a real human. If no one answers for half an hour or so, send email to the Customer Service people, using the Contact Us email address.

You can order on our site 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But if delivery times are crucial, order very early in the day, to be sure that the product can go out that day.

No. Our store accepts orders even if the bank card billing address is outside Tanzania. We do however have a list of places to which we ship. Please click ‘Shipping’ details at the bottom of our home page.

We tell you in every product description, exactly how many copies we have in stock, so you know in advance if something is currently available, out of stock, or back-ordered.

If you pay by a bank card, you will be charged as soon as the order is shipped.

Yes. Only Value Added Tax on goods and services in accordance with the Tanzanian Laws.  You will be advised before confirming your order.

That depends on the way you pay and on our routine for picking and packing orders. Products on stock are shipped from the day of order up to 5 days thereafter.

We use Ground shipping within Tanzania and Air shipping for shipping outside Tanzania. Here are typical options offered by stores using delivery services.  Ground, which means about a week of business days. Air Shipping may take a few days to deliver. You will be able to track your order online with the shipping company.

Two reasons: Courier Delivery services like are not allowed into post offices. Card companies take a dim view of a P.O. box as a billing address and prefer that the store ship only to the same address as the billing address on the Cards.

Please click ‘Shipping Rates & Policies’ at the bottom of the home page.

Once your order is confirm and shipped,  we tell you the package number, so you can go to the delivery service’s Web site and check on the package’s progress. (You may have to wait 24 hours after the order is actually shipped to see your package on the Web site.)

Or, if you registered or became a member at the store, you may be able to log in with that name and password, go to an order tracking area on the site itself, use your confirmation code and plug into the delivery service’s tracking systems from there.

Yes. You have to sign a receipt to confirm that the package really reached you. The delivery services obey these requests. But if you must go out, you can put up a note authorizing the driver to leave the package (print your name and sign it). Or, if you get a lot of packages but you are often out, you can get a small form from the delivery service to glue to your door, authorizing them to leave packages even if you are not home.

Click ‘Refund and Returns Policy’ at the bottom of our home page.

You are invited to “log in,” meaning to identify yourself, using a made-up user name and a password. And if you do not already have a user name and password, the store may nudge you to register, or “become a member.” So what’s in it for you? You do get some benefits from registering:

Once you register, you have given them your billing and shipping address, and perhaps even your bank card information, so when you come to purchase something, you may not have to retype all that.

If you start shopping and leave the site before making a purchase, and then come back, the items will probably still be in your shopping cart, because the store recognizes you and saves your shopping cart hoping you will continue. Non-members lose whatever they put in their carts.

Having your registration information already on file helps us fill out your order form for you, lessening the chance of typos fouling up the process.

Because they have all this information on file, we can locate your order faster, for order tracking.

The answers to the “optional” questions about your tastes, age, sex, other products you own, and so on, help build a demographic profile of our audience, which is very valuable for our marketing department.

If you allow us to send you email, your profile may allow us  to tailor alerts, news bulletins, and specials so they describe products similar to what you have already bought, or in line with your profile.

For all these reasons, registration may be required before you get past the welcome page.

Absolutely not. You have to permit us to send you emails and you can cancel this anytime.

A cookie is a small file that the store sends to your browser after you register. The cookie contains the store’s name and a code identifying you, something like your Customer Identification Number. The browser looks on your hard disk, in the directory for temporary Internet files, and when it finds a cookie with the store’s name on it, sends that back to the store.

The store digests the cookie and discovers your Customer Identification Number. In a few seconds, the store pulls up all your information. You can tell that this has happened if you see a message such as “Welcome XY” at the top of the welcome page. The store has recognized you, thanks to the cookie exchange.

From then on, if you press the Buy button, the order form comes up with almost every line filled in, because the store has drawn that from your record on our database. So you give up a little hard disk space, sacrifice a little privacy, in order to avoid retyping all that stuff. And from the store’s point of view, the cookie is reassuring evidence that you are who you say you are and, in fact, you are a repeat customer.

Follow the instructions to recover the password on the website or call customer service.