For community-run village shops

Run your village shop without the spreadsheets, group chats, and sticky notes

VillageShop brings volunteer rotas and customer click & collect ordering into one simple app — built specifically for the way community shops actually run, not adapted from something built for a chain.

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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

Nothing to install, nothing to learn

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.