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Build a custom local marketplace platform
Kliv is an AI app builder. Describe your vendors, catalogs, pickup windows, commissions, and statements, and it builds the local marketplace platform.
Just enter your idea into the text box and AI will build it for you
What is Kliv?
Kliv isn’t a marketplace template you fill with listings — it’s an AI that builds software for you.
You describe the app you need in plain words, and Kliv builds it: the data, the logic, the screens, and the checkout. You own the result, run it on your own domain and accounts, and can change it later by asking. For commerce, payments run on your own Stripe account.
On this page, that app is a local marketplace platform. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; this is one example for vendors, pickup windows, commissions, and statements.
The market outgrew the town square
A local market does not always need shipping labels and return policies. It may need something simpler and more specific: customers order during the week, vendors prepare exactly what sold, and buyers collect everything during a Saturday pickup window.
Kliv builds the marketplace in that shape: one storefront, many vendor stalls, one checkout, pickup windows instead of parcels, and a commission ledger written as orders happen.
Stalls, shelves, and Saturdays
These records keep the marketplace clear for vendors, buyers, and the operator.
Vendors and stalls
Each maker has an account and stall page with story, photos, and a catalog they can edit. They see their own orders and not their neighbors’.
The shared storefront
Customers can browse by stall, category, or what is available for Saturday pickup. A basket can include several vendors, and the buyer pays once.
The commission ledger
Every sale writes the maker’s share and the market’s 8% commission when the order is placed, so statements are reports over records.
Pickup windows
Each order carries its pickup window. Windows can have limits, so the order form refuses more than the pickup table can handle.
The pick lists
A scheduled Thursday-night job can close ordering and email each maker the items, quantities, buyer names, and order codes they need.
The character gate
New vendors and listings can pass through moderation before they appear publicly, so a curated market stays curated online.
An example: Ines’s Saturday makers’ market
Here’s how one market might use it. It’s only an example — you would describe your own vendors, pickup rules, commissions, stock limits, and statement process.
A vendor lists a limited batch
The smokehouse lists 40 jars of trout pâté with a photo from the dock. Ines approves the listing from the moderation queue, and it goes public.
The stock count stops overselling
Each order reduces the batch count. When jar 40 sells, the listing closes instead of disappointing the 41st buyer at the stall.
Ordering closes before pickup day
The Thursday-night job closes ordering, emails every vendor a pick list, and sends each buyer a reminder with pickup window and order code.
Collection uses codes, not memory
On Saturday, buyers give their code and vendors mark orders collected. No-shows are flagged for follow-up instead of being argued about later.
The ledger already agrees
Each order wrote the vendor share and the market’s 8% commission when it happened. Ines reads weekend totals without reconciling a spreadsheet.
Monthly statements come from the same rows
Each vendor receives a statement showing sales, commission, and net. The market settles payouts from the records both sides can read.
Describe what you want to build
Kliv builds from your description, so the more detail you give, the closer the first version. Include vendors, pickup rules, commission rates, stock limits, statements, and moderation. Here are three to build on:
Makers’ market online
Stalls, pickup windows, and commission ledger.
“Build a local marketplace for our Saturday makers’ market. Each vendor gets a stall page and editable catalog, customers can order from multiple vendors in one checkout, pickup windows run Saturday from 9:00 to 1:00, ordering closes Thursday night, the market records an 8% commission per order, and vendors receive monthly statements.”
Weekly farm boxes
Subscriptions and one-off orders.
“Build a local marketplace for three farms. Farms list weekly produce boxes, customers can subscribe or order one-off, ordering closes Wednesday at 8 p.m., each farm gets a pick list Thursday morning, and the market records a 6% commission with monthly statements.”
Food hall pre-orders
Six kitchens, one checkout, lunch pickup.
“Build a marketplace for our food hall. Six kitchens manage their own lunch menus, customers choose 15-minute pickup slots from 11:30 to 2:00, each kitchen sees only its own orders, the hall records a 10% commission per order, and customers pay once for mixed-kitchen baskets.”
The mechanics under the awning
One checkout can cover many stalls. A basket with pâté, a sheepskin, and two mugs is still one payment through the market’s Stripe account. The ledger splits the order by vendor at the same moment.
A stall can be tied to a subscription. If makers pay $10 a month for a stall, that subscription can control whether the stall page stays published.
You can see what works. Visitors, conversion, revenue by stall, and orders from the newsletter can be tracked as events you define.
Running a market this way is close to operating a small platform. The operator’s playbook lives on the SaaS solutions page.
Common questions
What exactly is Kliv?
Kliv is an AI app builder. You describe the custom commerce app you need, it builds it, and you own the result. For a local marketplace, that means vendor stalls, checkout, pickup windows, commission records, and statements.
Do I get a real app, or a template?
A real app. Kliv builds the database, vendor screens, buyer storefront, checkout, pickup rules, and statement workflow.
Can I change it after it’s built?
Yes. You can change commission rates, add pickup windows, add vendor moderation, change statement formats, or add subscriptions later.
Do vendors get paid automatically?
Not by default. Buyers pay the market’s Stripe account, each order writes the vendor share to the ledger, and the market settles payouts on its own rhythm from statements.
Can makers run their own stalls without seeing each other’s business?
Yes. A vendor account edits its own catalog and sees its own orders and statements. Other vendors’ numbers are outside that account’s access.
What stops someone ordering 12 jars when three are left?
The stock count lives in the database and decrements with each sale. An order that would oversell is refused when placed.
Do buyers need an account to order?
A light sign-in can keep orders and pickup codes connected to the buyer, so next week’s order is faster. The source page suggests email or Google sign-in.
Do buyers need their own Stripe accounts?
No. Buyers pay by card. Payments run through the market’s own Stripe account.
Does Kliv take a cut of marketplace sales?
No. Payments run on your Stripe account. Card processing costs are between you and Stripe.
Can vendors pay a monthly stall fee?
Yes, if you want that. A stall subscription can open or unpublish a vendor’s stall page on schedule.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. The marketplace can run on the market’s own domain.
Can I move off Kliv later?
Yes. The app’s code syncs to your own Git repository, so leaving is a git pull rather than a rebuild.
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Build the market around pickup day
Describe the vendors, catalogs, pickup windows, commission, moderation, and statements. Kliv builds the local marketplace around them.