Open shop
without giving up
the counter.
Local Shops is one storefront for Calgary's independent businesses — makers, boutiques, importers, resellers. List your products, take orders from neighbours, print shipping labels in-app, and keep doing the parts of retail you actually like.
✓No setup fee · No monthly minimum · Commission-only
Built for the people behind the counter.
Fewer tabs. Honest defaults. A back office that disappears into the parts of retail you'd rather not think about.
Run two storefronts? Three? All from one login.
Brick-and-mortar and the online catalog in the same dashboard. Run a few brands? Switch in one click. Payouts stay separate; the chaos doesn't.
Orders come in like tickets. Pack them like tickets.
Pings in real time. Order, address, label — already queued. No copy-pasting addresses into a courier site at 11pm.
One source of truth for what's on the shelf.
Sell in-store and online? Stock decrements both ways. Low-stock pings before customers find out.
Money in the bank, predictably.
Transparent split, line-itemed. No surprise reserves, no rolling holds — what shipped is yours.
Print a label without leaving the shop.
Canada Post built in. UPS rolling out. One click, one PDF. Drop it off when you're already running errands.
Inglewood, Calgary
IN-APP
Three steps. One week, give or take.
We're picky on who we let on — every shop is reviewed by a real human — but we move quickly. Most shops are open before the week is out.
Tell us about your shop.
Short form. Your business, your products, your location. We're listening for the real thing — independent operators, not investor decks.
- Sole proprietors welcome — no GST/HST required to apply
- Reviewed by a real person on our team, not an algorithm
Photograph, price, publish.
Upload products in bulk or one at a time. We have templates and a CSV importer — and a direct line if you'd rather have help.
- CSV importer keeps your SKUs and inventory levels intact
- Connect Stripe in one tap. Identity verified through them, not us.
Open the doors. We tell the neighbourhood.
Featured in the customer app the day you open. Subscribers get a “new shop” email. Your products land in the multi-brand cart shoppers already use.
- Launch-day mention in the Local Shops newsletter
- Optional in-person try-on at your shop, advertised on your listing
Commission-only. No surprise lines.
We take a percentage of what sells. You don't pay us when you don't sell. That's the whole pricing page.
Pay nothing until your first order ships.
No monthly fee. No listing fee. No platform fee buried in an FAQ. We make money only when you do — Stripe takes their share separately, and you'd pay that to anyone.
- Unlimited products
- Unlimited shops per account
- Stripe payouts, no holds
- In-app Canada Post labels
- Direct line to a real human
- Optional co-warehousing
Independent shops. No two alike.
Every shop on Local Shops is reviewed by hand. We're choosy about who joins — these are a few of your future neighbours.
One storefront. One cart for the customer across every shop on the platform. The boring stuff — labels, payouts, inventory — handled in the same tab.
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shops
labels
co-warehousing
The things we get asked most.
If your question isn't here, write to us. A real person on our team will answer — usually within the day.
Do I need to be incorporated, or have GST/HST, to apply?
What's the actual review process — what gets you in?
What happens if I'm already on Shopify or another platform?
How does fulfillment work?
When do I get paid?
Can I leave? What happens to my customer list?
What about Winnipeg, Toronto, Vancouver?
Open shop on Local Shops.
Short application. A real person reads it. If we're a fit, you're selling soon after. If we're not, you'll hear that too — and we'll point you at someone who is.
✓Free to apply · No card required · A real person on the other end