What each screen does, what happens when a request reaches you, and what this app will not do.
Open bloodkonnect.in and tap Login / Register. Two ways in, and both end up at the same place.
Continue with Google
The quickest route. Your name and email come across from your Google account. You still give a mobile number before you finish, because the number is how a requestor reaches you.
Mobile number and password
Enter your 10-digit mobile number and choose a password of at least 8 characters. Your number is your identity here.
Six short steps, about a minute. You can go back at any point; nothing is saved until the last screen.
Name and date of birth
You must be 18 or older to donate. Next stays disabled until the date is valid.
Blood group
One of the eight groups. Requests are matched on the full compatibility matrix, not on an exact group match, so you will sometimes be asked for a patient whose group is not yours.
City and pincode
The pincode does the real work: matching is by postal zone, not by city name. Type the pincode and we will suggest the city, which you can correct.
This is the step that decides whether any of the rest happens.
Allow alerts when the prompt appears
A card slides up from the bottom: Get notified for blood requests. Tap Allow, then allow it again in your browser's own prompt. That second prompt is the one that counts.
Add BloodKonnect to your home screen
A second card offers Install. On an iPhone there is no install button: tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. Installed, the app opens in one tap and works with a weak connection.
Home is where you stand today and the two controls you will actually use.
Where you stand
A line in your own terms: available, paused, or resting after a donation, and how many times you have been asked so far. It never claims you are in the pool when you are paused or resting.
Pause your alerts
A full-width control on Home. Choose 7, 14, 28 or 56 days, or until you resume. Pausing stops requests reaching you and changes nothing else. Resume whenever.
What happens between the notification and the blood bank counter.
The alert arrives
Push if it is working, email if it is not. It names the blood group, the hospital and the city. It does not say how far away it is, because we cannot know that.
You read it and decide
The open requests you can answer are under the Donate tab. Tap one for the hospital, the urgency, and how many donors are still needed.
Yes, accept and share my number
You confirm you meet the donation requirements, then accept. Accepting shares your phone number with the requestor, and shows you theirs. Nothing is shared before that tap.
The centre button on the bottom bar. We check whether we can actually help before you fill anything in.
First, where the patient is
Hospital pincode and city, before anything else. We check reach on that screen.
What is needed
Blood group, or any group, and how urgent: routine, urgent or critical. We check reach again here, because the group is the first thing that changes the answer.
Where, then review
Hospital name and address, units needed, when it is needed by. Then a review screen before anything is sent.
Five tabs along the bottom, one job each.
Home
Where you stand, and your controls
Donate
Open requests you can answer
Email address, optional
Worth adding. Push notifications stop working silently more often than you would think, and email is the fallback we use when they do.
How far you are willing to travel
Four choices. A request starts at zone 1 and widens over time, so a wider setting means you hear about more requests, later in their life.
Weekly limit, then your sign-in details
Cap how many requests can reach you in a week: no limit, 2, 5, 10 or 20. Then your mobile number, a password if you did not come in through Google, and the box that accepts the Privacy Policy and Terms. Tap Register as Donor.
The four zones, named by postal area
We describe zones by postal area rather than in kilometres. A pincode prefix is a sorting area, not a radius: one prefix can cover a few streets in a small town and most of a metro. Any distance we printed would be a guess.
Donated somewhere else? Tell us
In the same sheet. You say when you donated, not how long to rest, and we work the rest period out from the donation date. That is deliberate: the interval is a clinical floor, not a preference. We apply 90 days to everyone, and the FAQ has the NBTC intervals, which differ for women.
Your alerts and your requests
Shortcuts to the requests waiting for your answer, the ones you raised, and the donor directory. Plus one fact about donating, drawn from the FAQ, that changes daily.
The mission screen takes over
One screen with the hospital, a call button, directions, and the only actions that make sense right now.
On the mission screen
I am on my way
Tells the requestor you have set off. We never promise them a time.
I donated
Records the donation and rests you for 90 days from that day, so no request reaches you while you recover.
They could not take my blood
For a deferral at the counter. It is not a donation and not a no-show: no rest period starts and nothing is recorded against you.
I cannot go: release my slot
One tap, any time. The request goes straight back out to other donors. Nothing is held against you, and the honest exit is always better than silence.
Once it is live
My asks shows the time you raised it, a countdown to the moment the search widens to the next zone, and how far it has reached. A request expires after 72 hours. Mark it fulfilled as soon as you have what you need, so donors stop being alerted.
Sharing it
Every request has a link you can send to a WhatsApp group. The link shows the hospital, the city, the group and the urgency. It does not show anyone's phone number.
Request
The centre button. Raise a request
My asks
Requests you raised
Profile
Your details, record and password
Find a donor
A directory of cities with donors available right now, and which blood groups each city holds. It shows counts, never people: no name, no number, no pincode, and no way to contact anyone from it. Requests are how donors are reached.