VillageShop

Built for everyone at your shop

One app, six different views

Every person who touches your shop — staff, volunteers, customers, and the suppliers you already work with — gets exactly the view they need.

Shop Manager

Oversight of the rota and all customer orders at a glance.

Desktop web app
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Rota Admin

Use the mobile app to see rota health and deal with gaps easily.

Native app
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Volunteer

Easily see your shifts, swap with colleagues, and claim open shifts.

Native app
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Customer

Browse everything available to order from your village shop — newspapers, bread, meat, and more. Set up one-off or recurring orders and collect from your shop.

Native app
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Kiosk

A tablet in your shop so volunteers and staff on duty can see every order due for collection that day.

iPad app
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Supplier

As a local supplier to a village shop, your whole range can be listed so customers can pre-order and collect from the shop you already supply.

Desktop web app
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Volunteer rota

Shifts that fill themselves

Your volunteers manage their own availability from their phone — no more chasing people on WhatsApp to cover Tuesday morning.

Volunteers claim open shifts and request swaps themselves, without a rota admin having to broker every change
Each shift carries its own task checklist — opening, closing, and anything specific to that slot — so nothing gets missed
Automatic shift reminders, so people actually show up without a phone call the night before
Leave requests, holiday cover, and a live view of who's covering what, all in one place

For volunteers

Open the app, see your shifts, claim open ones, request a swap — all from a phone, no training needed.

For rota admins

Build a weekly rota template once, publish it, and handle swap requests and cover from a single screen.

Click & collect

Customer orders, sorted automatically

Customers order from your local suppliers through the app; VillageShop handles the admin of getting it to the right people.

For customers

Browse what's available from each local supplier, order ahead, and collect in store — no calling round or guessing what's in stock.

For your shop

Orders aggregate automatically at each supplier's cut-off, then email straight to the supplier and your order manager — no manual collation.

Each supplier gets its own delivery schedule and cut-off time, set up once
Standing orders for regulars who want the same thing every week, with holiday pauses handled automatically
Clear collection expectations shown to customers up front, so there are no surprises either way
One dashboard for whoever manages ordering to see everything coming in, by supplier

How it works

1

We set up your shop

A shop, your rota structure, and your suppliers, configured to how you actually run things.

2

You invite your people

Volunteers and customers get a simple invite to download the app and join your shop.

3

Everyone just uses it

No training sessions required — the app is built to be obvious from the first screen.

Get started

Interested in bringing VillageShop to your shop?

We'd love to hear how your shop runs today and whether VillageShop could help. Leave your details and we'll get back to you.

Prefer email? Write to us at hello@villageshop.app.