Main streetin your pocket.
Lytebuy puts the shops, makers and kitchens of your town on the map and hands business owners the same reach the giants pay millions for.
Why Vendors Prefer Lytebuy
It is a no-brainer to sell on lytebuy.
More of every sale stays with the person who made it. Pick an order size and see what the big marketplaces take out of the same sale, using each platform's own published fee schedule.
| Platform | Fee | Share of the order | Extra cost compared with lytebuy |
|---|---|---|---|
| lytebuy | $3 | 4% | n/a |
| Groupon | $22.50 | 30% | $19.50 more |
| Amazon Handmade | $11.25 | 15% | $8.25 more |
| eBay | $10.60 | 14.1% | $7.60 more |
| Etsy | $7.58 | 10.1% | $4.58 more |
On a $75 order, lytebuy takes $3. The same sale on Groupon costs $22.50 - $19.50 more out of the same order.
Who pays for the servers. Someone has to keep the lights on, and that is what the 4% at checkout pays for - not a cut of your craft. The buyer pays it, not you. On Etsy, eBay and Amazon that cut comes out of the seller's side.
Card processing is not included. Stripe's fee is absorbed by the vendor on lytebuy, exactly as it is on the other platforms here, so leaving it off every row keeps the comparison fair.
Groupon has no published rate. It is negotiated per merchant. The bar uses the middle of the 20-40% range in Groupon's own worked examples, and their commission sits on top of the discount the merchant funds. Vendors are also paid only when a voucher is redeemed, not when it sells.
Not charted. Faire and Shopify are left out on purpose - wholesale (brand to retailer), not retail; a storefront the vendor rents and must drive their own traffic to, not a marketplace with built-in demand.
Our mission
A small business network, not a marketplace giant.
Do good, make friends, eat good food, share stories, share love, repeat.
Lytebuy exists to correct an imbalance. A woodworker, a baker or a record shop should be able to reach the people a few streets away without handing a fortune to an advertising machine. We keep the barrier low, the fees honest, and the money circulating where it was earned.
What lytebuy does
Five tools, one purpose: get people through your door.
Map
Find the best a town has to offer, quick and easy, on an interactive map.
Notify
Follow the vendors you like and get their deals in your lytebuy inbox. No spam, ever.
Page
A free, customised page for your business that builds real search traffic.
Promotions
Create deals and events, cap them or leave them open, share them across the platform.
Stats
See which promotion brought which customer, and plan the next one on evidence.
“Give people a reason to take the main street detour.”
Get the app
Your town, opened up.
Browse the map, follow the places you love, and get first word when something good comes out of the oven. Free, and it always will be for shoppers.
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Sell with us
It is genuinely easy to sell on lytebuy.
No agency, no ad budget, no six-week onboarding. You can be listed and posting before the lunch rush.
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Claim your page
Name, photos, hours, the thing you are famous for. Minutes, not a project.
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Post what is good today
A deal, an event, a fresh batch. It lands with the people who follow you.
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Watch who walks in
Scan a code at the counter and see exactly which post brought them.
The return
Reach without the advertising bill.
Traditional local advertising asks for money up front and tells you almost nothing about what it bought. Lytebuy inverts that: listing is free, promotion is free, and every scan at your counter is attributed.
- Local businesses on lytebuy
- 0 Local businesses on lytebuy
- To list your business and post promotions
- Free To list your business and post promotions
- Of your sale stays yours on a free listing
- 100% Of your sale stays yours on a free listing
- From signing up to your first live promotion
- It only takes minutes From signing up to your first live promotion
Fresh on lytebuy
What is good today.
No listings yet. Stay tuned.
The first shops are setting up now. If you run one, this is a good moment to be early.
The neighbourhood
Be first on the map.
Nobody has claimed a spot here yet. If you run a shop, a stall or a van on your main street, you can be the first listing your neighbours see.
From the blog
Why any of this matters.
Put your town back on the map.
Free to list, free to post, and built by people who want your street to thrive.