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give your Friday nights back.
Across Australia, thousands of bakers, growers and cooks take their orders in WhatsApp, Facebook and Telegram groups. It's personal — and it's a mess of screenshots, DMs and a half-finished spreadsheet at 11pm.
the community crate keeps the neighbourly bit and tidies up the rest. One weekly crate, one link to share, orders that land in order. All on one clean dashboard.
How it works
We didn't build another marketplace to get lost in.
We built the thing that replaces the 11pm spreadsheet — without replacing the messages, the chat at pickup, or any of the reasons people buy from you instead of a supermarket.
- Build this week's crateYour list of what's available, priced how you like. Next week fills itself in from this one — change what's different, publish, done.
- Share one linkStraight into the chats your customers are already in. No app to download, no account to make. And your stall link never changes, so a link in your bio or printed on your packaging always points at whatever's live right now.
- They collect, or you deliverSet your pickup spot for the week — and move it if you're at a different market. Any buyer who'd rather have it dropped off can ask, at a fee you set. Deliver to as many addresses as you like.
- Pack, hand over, doneOrders arrive tidy and in one place. Mark them collected as they go.
You're still the one they're talking to
A few makers have asked whether this turns something personal into something transactional. It doesn't. Your customers still message you, still ask whether there's sourdough this week, still stop for a chat at pickup. All we do is stop the orders getting lost in among it.
The relationship was never the problem. The admin was.
Your stall, and the market
Think of it like your local market.
Every maker gets a stall of their own — your name, your brand, one link you share wherever your community already talks. That stall is yours, and it always leads with you.
When you're ready, you can list it in the Market: a place for buyers to find local makers and growers near them. Opt in, opt out, whenever you like.
Want it under your own branding? We get it.
Every business wants to stand out in its own way, and yours has a name your customers already know. On Thrive, your stall runs on your own domain under your own brand — nothing your customers see mentions us, unless you'd like it to. And you can still be listed in the Market if you'd like to be found. Your brand out the front, our plumbing underneath.
Coming soon
You'll need your own web address — if you've already got one, we can work with it. Buying and renewing it isn't included, and it doesn't come with a mailbox.
We'll never sell to your customers
If someone arrives through your link, they see your stall — and only your stall. We don't show them other sellers, we don't email them, and we never sell your list. Discovery only happens in the Market, and only if a buyer goes looking and you've opted in to be found.
What it costs
Priced for micro and small businesses.
Pay as you go
One crate, one pickup spot, one login. Pay per order, nothing else.
No commission, no percentage — just the flat fee, and only when you sell.
30c an order
Grow
Two of each — so you can do two markets in a week. Plus analytics, item descriptions auto-generated for you, and Say Thanks by offering store discounts.
$59 / mo
Thrive
Your own brand on your own domain. Unlimited crates, pickup spots and logins.
Coming soon
On every plan: unlimited deliveries, unlimited items and unlimited customers. PayID, bank transfer, cash and card payments, straight into your own Stripe account. Export your data whenever you want. And no commission on your sales — ever.
Prices in AUD. Pay as you go is capped at the price of Grow, so a bumper week never costs more than a flat plan. Card payments carry Stripe's standard processing fee, paid to Stripe — not to us.
Our story
It started at our kitchen table.
Every week my wife makes a run to the local bakery — not just for us, but collecting on behalf of others in the community. No charge. That's just who she is. The hard part was never the collecting or the driving. It was the chats — orders scattered across messages, screenshots, and a half-finished Google Form.
Watching the late nights spent making sure nobody was missed, I kept thinking she deserved something better. That became The Community Crate.
I'm the whole team right now. If something breaks, you email me and I answer: [email protected]