For local businesses
New customers, not just a new checkout
Reigate families can back the parent associations of 26 local schools, and the one they choose takes a share of what they spend with you. They get a weekly email of local offers, and a reason to spend with you rather than a chain. Listing costs nothing, and we charge 4% only when you sell.
Where the orders come from
Being seen is the hard part. That is the bit we do.
Most platforms hand you a shopfront and wish you luck. The hard part for a small business is not taking payment, it is being seen by enough of the right people often enough to matter. That is the part we are building, and it is the reason to be on a town’s site rather than running your own.
26 schools
The network starts with the school gates
Families in Reigate choose who gets a share of what they spend: the parent associations of 26 local schools, among 116 local causes in all. The school gates are where the families are; clubs, churches and shoppers with no group at all widen it from there.
Weekly
An email to the whole town, every week
Every household that opts in gets a digest of what local businesses are offering that week. Your products can be in it, and being in it costs nothing extra. No advertising budget, no algorithm, no bidding against a chain.
A motive
A reason to choose you over a chain
When a parent buys from you, their child’s school gets a share. That is a reason to walk past the supermarket that no discount code replicates, and it is why these customers come back rather than buying once.
The schools a Reigate family can back
- Bletchingley Village Primary School (Friends of BVPS)
- Brooklands School (Friends of Brooklands School)
- Carrington School (Supporters of Carrington School)
- Dovers Green School PTA
- Dunottar School PTA
- Earlswood Infant and Junior Schools (Friends of Earlswood)
- Furzefield Primary Academy (Friends of Furzefield)
- Hatchlands Primary School (Friends of Hatchlands)
- Holmesdale Community Infant School PSA
- Merstham Park School (Friends of Merstham Park)
- Merstham Primary School (Friends of Merstham Primary School)
- Micklefield School (Friends of Micklefield)
- Moon Hall School, Reigate (Friends of Moon Hall)
- Nutfield Church Primary School PTFA
- Reigate Grammar School (Parents and Friends Association)
- Reigate Parish Church Primary School PTA
- Reigate Priory Junior School FSA
- Royal Alexandra and Albert School (Friends of RAAS)
- Salfords Primary School PTA
- Sandcross Primary School (Friends of Sandcross)
- St Bede's School (Friends of St Bede's)
- St John's Primary School, Redhill (Friends of St John's)
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Redhill (St Joseph's Association)
- The Hawthorns School (Friends of The Hawthorns)
- Woodfield School (Friends of Woodfield)
- Wray Common Primary School (Friends of Wray Common)
To be straight about it: Reigate has not opened yet. These are the schools and causes a family can choose to back today, not a list of families already shopping. Businesses that are listed when the town opens are the ones the first households see.
What you list
Sell what you already sell, priced once, paid for once.
Every sale here is a single payment: a ticket, a box ordered ahead and collected on a fixed day, a gift card, or a place on a term of classes priced for the sessions still to come. There is no standing order and nothing bills itself again later, so what a customer pays is exactly what they agreed to. The one rule is that you never list above your own usual shop price (section 4 of the Vendor Agreement); genuine short promotions in your own shop are outside it.
A weekly email of local offers is what brings the repeat trade: it reaches every signed-up household in the town, so being back in front of them each week does not depend on anyone remembering to order.
What that looks like
- Butcher: a Christmas box, ordered ahead and collected on the day
- Baker: a price list you photograph, turned into offers to check and sell
- Greengrocer: a seasonal veg box, ready to collect on a fixed date
- Coffee roaster: a bag of beans as a gift card someone else redeems
- Florist: a bouquet ordered ahead for a fixed collection day
- Class or club: places on a term of lessons, priced for the sessions still to come
Getting started
Three steps, about twenty minutes
Tell us what you sell
Connect your bank through Stripe
Start taking orders
What else you get
The parts that matter to a small business
You are the seller, not us
Money goes straight to you
New customers, not repeat walk-ins
Nothing to build and nothing to run
What it costs
4% of what you sell. That is the whole list.
The fee is taken automatically out of each sale before your payout, so there is no invoice to pay and nothing to remember. Stripe charges its own card processing fee on top, the same as any card machine, and that goes to Stripe rather than to us.
What one sale earns you
Gift shop
Christmas hamper, £40
£38.40
to you, before Stripe’s card fee
80p of our fee goes to the school or group your customer backs.
A £40 Christmas hamper: you receive £38.40 before Stripe’s card fee, and 80p of our fee goes to the school or group your customer backs.
Butcher
Weekend BBQ box, £35
£33.60
to you, before Stripe’s card fee
70p of our fee goes to the school or group your customer backs.
A £35 Weekend BBQ box: you receive £33.60 before Stripe’s card fee, and 70p of our fee goes to the school or group your customer backs.
Cafe
Morning pastry box, £12
£11.52
to you, before Stripe’s card fee
24p of our fee goes to the school or group your customer backs.
A £12 Morning pastry box: you receive £11.52 before Stripe’s card fee, and 24p of our fee goes to the school or group your customer backs.
Worked out at Reigate’s own rates by the same calculation every sale goes through, from each trade’s suggested first offer, as read on 24 October 2026. Change the price and the split moves with it.
There is no monthly charge, no listing fee, no setup fee and no minimum. If you sell nothing in a month, you pay nothing. We can change your town’s fee schedule on at least 30 days’ written notice, and any change only applies to sales after that.
What you take on
Being the seller cuts both ways, so here it is plainly. You agree to:
- Keep listings accurate, including allergens and ingredients where they apply.
- Fulfil orders as described, and tell us quickly if you cannot.
- Handle refunds and complaints under UK consumer law, refunding from your BackMyTown dashboard. We email the customer to confirm it is on its way.
- Hold the registrations, licences and insurance your trade needs.
- Deal with your own tax, including VAT on your sales if you are registered.
The full terms are in the Vendor Agreement, which you accept at sign-up. Worth ten minutes of your time before you commit.
Next step
Reigate businesses can sign up now
Sign-up takes about twenty minutes: what you sell, your bank details through Stripe, and you are ready to take orders once we have checked the business is genuinely yours. Prefer to ask first? Get in touch and we will come back with what it would look like for you.