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Now enrolling pilot towns

Your town’s businesses, open to every yokal shopper. Zero commission.

One app where anyone, from your residents to visitors, can order from your local businesses, which pay 0% commission. Your staff get a privacy-protected portal of local spending. Towns pay one annual license, from $5,000 a year.

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See how town pricing works
Free for businesses0% commissionDesigned with public-records laws in mind
Sample screens with fictional stores
Spent locally this month
$48,210
Town portal · sample data
NEW7F3A0:42
Pickup · Ready by 10:45
2× Oat milk latte
1× Almond croissant
Accept order
0%commission on every saleDelivery apps take up to 30%
$0for a business to list and sellNo setup or monthly fees
100%of each payment is paid to the business’s own Stripe account, not to yokalStripe deducts its standard card fee
5+businesses behind every town figurePrivacy built into the database
How it works

One order. Three sides of town.

Follow one lunch order through yokal: the neighbor who places it, the shop that makes it, and the town that sees what it adds up to.

  1. 01 · Shoppers

    A neighbor orders lunch.

    Order ahead for pickup, get delivery from the shop’s own drivers, or have it shipped. Your town’s shops, today’s deals, and favorites in one app.

  2. 02 · Businesses

    The shop gets the order, and the money.

    A free storefront and a live order board. Payment goes straight to the shop’s own Stripe account. No commission, no monthly fee.

  3. 03 · Towns

    The town sees what it adds up to.

    Local spending, the category mix, visitors, and what people search for but can’t find. Always totals, never one shop’s sales.

Sample screens with a fictional store and sample figures.

Privacy by design

Your town sees the town. Never one business’s books.

Anything a town holds can be requested under public-records laws like Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law and New Jersey’s OPRA. So the town portal never holds individual business data in the first place. Every figure is a total, with the protections built into the database itself.

This describes how yokal is designed. Your town attorney should confirm how your state’s public-records law applies.

At least five businesses behind every number
Fewer than that, and the figure is withheld.
No figure dominated by one business
If one shop is most of a total, the total stays hidden.
No working it out by subtraction
Small categories merge into “Other categories.”
Spending by category
Town portal · sample data
Restaurants$21,480
Cafés & bakeries$9,215
Shops & retail$11,960
ServicesWithheld
Other categories$5,555
Services is withheld: fewer than five businesses sold in that category this month.
Where the money goes

Money never passes through us.

Every payment goes straight to the business’s own Stripe account. The business is the seller of record, sets its own prices, and gets paid out on Stripe’s normal schedule. We don’t take a cut, and we never hold the money.

JR
A neighbor orders lunch
Pays $24.00
The business’s own Stripe account
Receives $24.00
yokalBuilds the storefront and the app. Takes $0.00 of this sale.
Stripe’s standard card processing fee applies, as with any card reader, and is paid to Stripe. yokal receives no part of any sale or of Stripe’s fee.
Do the math

See what delivery apps take from Main Street.

Delivery apps commonly charge 15% to 30% on delivery orders and about 6% on pickup. Work out what that costs one business, or your whole town.

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For businesses

Everything a local business needs to sell online. Free.

See everything for businesses

A storefront in minutes

Upload a spreadsheet, or snap a photo of your menu and we’ll fill in the items and prices for you to check.

A live order board

New orders chime until someone accepts. Print kitchen tickets, add ten minutes, or pause orders when it’s busy.

Pickup, delivery, shipping

Deliver with your own drivers to the ZIP codes you choose, or ship with flat rates and tracking numbers.

Bring yokal to your town.

We’re enrolling our first pilot towns now. See the town portal, the app, and the business tools in a 20-minute call.

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