Local hubs
Shop local.
Together.
A hub is local businesses working together: on a main street, in a market, at a festival or an event. We’ll build it with you. Tenvito makes it simple for every business to take orders online, and together we promote the whole hub, locally and beyond. Together, it’s more than any one business could be on its own.
For towns, markets, festivals, events and the businesses that make them.
- Taking orders
- Joining
- Out for delivery
What a hub is
Wherever local businesses come together.
A hub isn’t just a map of a town. It’s any group of local businesses that would do better side by side than on their own.
A town or village
The butcher, the baker, the café and the farm shop, all taking orders online and all found in one place, with the town’s name on it.
A market or food hall
Traders under one roof, or one set of stalls, with one place for customers to see everything and order ahead.
A festival or event
Every food and drink trader pre-selling by time slot, so visitors order ahead, the queues shrink and the traders know what’s coming.
A community of makers
Producers, a food trail, a box scheme or a co-op: separate businesses that sell more when customers find them together.
Why together
Take on the big platforms.
Keep it local.
Keep the customer and the money
The big aggregators can take up to 30% of every order, and the customer becomes theirs. On a hub, every business keeps its own customers and its own takings.
Bigger together
One shop is easy to miss. A whole hub of local businesses is worth shouting about, and every campaign lifts every business in it.
Simpler for everyone
One launch, one place for customers to look, and the same simple ordering for every business. Less work for each, more for all of them.
Doing it together
You bring the community.
We bring the tools. We build it together.
What you bring
The businesses and the people who know them. The local knowledge, the word on the street, and the reasons people come.
What we bring
Online ordering for every business, built from a photo of what it sells. One hub with its own name. Cosmo and our team, alongside every business.
What we do together
Launch it. Run campaigns the whole hub joins, for locals and for the people further afield who’d come for it. Then see what it all adds up to.
How it works
Built with the community, not for it.
- We map it together. — Who’s in the hub: the businesses on the street, the traders at the market, the stalls at the festival. We bring a list; you add the ones only locals know.
- We get everyone set up. — Each business takes a photo of what it sells, and Cosmo and our team do the rest, side by side with them. Nobody needs to be technical.
- We launch it together. — QR codes in every window and on every stall, the order button on every business’s socials, and a launch from you and from us, on the same day.
- And we keep it going together. — Campaigns the whole hub joins, new businesses joining as they’re ready, and a report we look at together.
From local businesses on Tenvito
“Amazing sales platform. Amazing service. Totally blown away by these guys. It’s like we have an extra staff member.”
Imelda Mullen
The Local Green Box · Cavan
“Customer care is second to none. The platform is super easy to use and manage. 10/10.”
Tom Eaton
The Dunes · Strandhill, Co. Sligo
For organisers and partners
What people ask us.
What is a Tenvito local hub?
A Tenvito local hub is a group of local businesses taking orders online together: a town’s shops, a market’s traders, or the food and drink sellers at a festival or event. Each business has its own online ordering, customers find them all in one place, and the hub is promoted together.
Who runs a Tenvito local hub day to day?
Tenvito does the running: we set up every business, run the hub and support the businesses. Local partners, such as a council, a business group or a market or festival organiser, bring the local knowledge and help tell people the hub is there.
What about businesses that already sell online?
There’s no need for them to switch. If a business already has its own online shop or ordering system, Tenvito will happily list it on the hub, linking to its own ordering, alongside every other business.
Let’s talk
Let’s build your hub, together.
Whether you’re a town, a market, a festival, a business group or a local business, we’d love to hear from you. For a chat or more information, get in touch.
Or email info@tenvito.com, or call +353 1 230 0558.