India is the second largest producer of tea in the world and over 75% of the tea is consumed within the country. The second most popular beverage in the world after water, tea comes in varying qualities and grades. Having been plucked from gardens across variety of regions, the tea makes its journey to our cups. In between, large tea buying companies package it for us, having procured it from auctions and bought leaf factories. It is this procurement process which is fraught with inherent inefficiencies in terms of transparency, presence of middlemen, price discovery and turnaround time, among other things. In 2008, an eAuction process initiated by the Tea Board replaced the centuries-old public outcry system. However, this process had its limitations. In 2013 we designed an online trading platform for a tea packaging company, one of the largest buyers of the country, which addressed and resolved these operational inefficiencies of the existing online system. The platform facilitates both bulk tea buying and selling.