Lower commission
More revenue per order stays with you.
Vancouver Island · For Businesses
Sell local.
Keep local.
Grow local.
Local Pass gives every kind of Island food business — restaurants, grocers, butchers, bakeries, caterers, farms and one-person kitchens — a direct channel to local customers, at a lower commission than the big apps.
What we're building
A platform that puts Island businesses first.
We live in Victoria and we love Vancouver Island. We created Local Pass for Vancouver Island food businesses of every kind — the grocery store, the butcher, the fish shop, the bakery, the caterer, the farm, the restaurant, and the person selling one thing they make themselves. Customers come here specifically to find and buy local, not to scroll past corporate chains.
That means a direct line to the people in your community who already want what you make.
Your own storefront
A web page customers find and order from — optimized for Google and AI search, no extra cost.
Powerful tools
Orders, sales, delivery, and analytics in one dashboard.
Live support
A real team that lives in the same neighbourhood, reachable when it matters.
Tools that help.
Built for day-to-day operations, simple yet powerful.
Sales dashboard
See your revenue, top items, and order trends in real time. No spreadsheets, no guessing.
Order fulfilment tools
Manage delivery, pickup, and scheduled orders from a single dashboard built for food businesses.
Catering & automated invoicing
Take catering and large-format orders with built-in quotes and deposits. Invoices are generated, sent, and reconciled automatically — no chasing payments.
Learn moreAutomated delivery tracking
Customers see where their order is in real time. Fewer support calls for you.
Secure payments
PCI-compliant payments deposited directly to your bank account. Transparent, no surprise deductions.
Works with your POS
Already on Square? Your menu syncs and orders drop straight into your terminal — no double entry. Toast, Lightspeed, and Clover are coming; on another system, just get in touch.
Receipt printer support
Use a receipt printer? Let us know — we're happy to help connect it wherever we can, so new orders print automatically.
Free tablet, no setup fees
We provide a tablet to run Local Pass at no charge, with no setup costs — so you can start taking orders on day one.
Joint marketing & collaborations
We run cross-business promotions and marketing campaigns together with our vendors — growing your business and the local community side by side.
More features — including loyalty programs, supplier tools, and cross-business promotions — are in development.
Every kind of food business.
If you produce, prepare, or sell food on Vancouver Island, there is a place for you — set up in under 10 minutes and go live the same day.
Scale is not a barrier. One person selling one thing they make in a licensed kitchen gets the same storefront, the same checkout and the same tools as a grocery store with a thousand products. Nowhere else on the Island are both of them on the same shelf.
Restaurants & Prepared Food
Sell through delivery, pickup, reservations, and catering — all from one dashboard. Use our driver network or your own fleet; either way you get live tracking and real-time order management.
Restaurant
Cafe
Deli & Sandwich
Pub & Bar
- Menu & store management
- Your own or LP driver network
- Multiple delivery zones
- Delivery, pickup & reservations
- Catering with automated invoicing
Food Shops, Makers & Producers
Sell on the Island Food Market — Vancouver Island's marketplace for local food businesses. Grocers, butchers, fish shops, bakeries, roasters, farms and solo makers all list side by side, and customers arrive already looking to buy local.
Grocery Store
Butcher
Fishmonger
Specialty Foods
- Product catalogue
- Order picklist with barcode scanning
- Delivery, pickup & shipping
- Wholesale pricing for trade buyers
- Island-wide customer reach
- CSA subscriptionsSoon
For farms & growers
Sell to households and restaurants
from one catalogue.
Farms use Local Pass differently from the rest of the marketplace: you are the vendor most likely to sell the same crop two ways. Both channels run off one product list, one stock count and one payout — so a wholesale order to a restaurant and a box of vegetables to a household draw down the same inventory.
Retail, priced by you
List by the unit you actually sell — pound, bunch, dozen, flat — with live stock counts so nothing oversells. Every product gets its own page built to rank on Google, so someone searching "Island eggs" lands on your farm instead of a supermarket.
Wholesale to Island kitchens
Switch on wholesale and the restaurants already taking orders on Local Pass see your bulk tier. Same catalogue, second price list — no rep, no broker, no cold calls. Chefs order the way their customers do.
Fulfilment that fits a farm week
Set pickup at the gate, local delivery or shipping per product rather than per store. Clear surplus at a discount with a Soon-to-Go badge and boosted placement. Earnings reach your bank in 24–48 hours.
We have separate terms for farm operators on Local Pass.
Get in touch and we will walk you through what applies to your operation. No listing fees and no exclusivity either way — your farm gate, your existing CSA and your market stall carry on exactly as they are. CSA subscriptions inside the platform are coming next.
Common questions
Straightforward answers — no marketing language.
Have a question? Just ask.
Whether you are ready to sign up or just exploring — we are happy to talk through how Local Pass works for your business.
Or email us directly at vendors@imlocal.ca
Ready to go live?
Setup takes under 10 minutes. No upfront costs. Start reaching your customers today.
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