A map of New Zealand's roadside stalls, honesty boxes and home producers. Buyers find fresh local food and handmade goods near them, pay for their goods by card in the app or arrange cash, then collect. Sellers turn their gate into a shopfront in minutes.
No. The "gate" might be a roadside stall, an honesty box, a carport table, or simply someone's front door, in the country or in town. You see a stall's rough area on the map, and the exact address plus directions ("green mailbox by the big macrocarpa") arrive once your order is confirmed.
That address stays visible to you for 48 hours, not for ever, so a seller's home address does not sit on a stranger's phone indefinitely.
Yes. The stall is wherever a buyer collects from. A chilly bin on the porch, the front door, a mailbox, a shopfront, a box halfway down the drive.
Your collection instructions and address are released only when an order is confirmed, so you are not publishing directions to your porch to the whole internet.
You can also set your listings so that every order is checked by you first, and arrange a time between you. Nothing exists until somebody wants it.
If you grow it, raise it, bake it, preserve it or make it, there's probably a home for it:
Stuck for ideas? Walk your garden, your shed and your kitchen bench. Someone down the road wants what you have too much of.
Recreationally caught fish or seafood (it's illegal to sell your catch), wild or home-killed meat, and home-brewed alcohol. None of these can lawfully be sold in New Zealand by anybody, so no paperwork or registration opens them. Whitebait is a special case, see below.
Raw (unpasteurised) drinking milk. Legal in New Zealand for a registered supplier, and open on GateShare since 3 September 2026 after MPI confirmed the rules with us in writing. To list it a seller ticks five things: they are registered with MPI under the Raw Milk for Sale to Consumers scheme and give the registration number; the milk is collected at the farm or delivered to the buyer's home; it is sold direct to the person who will drink it and never sold on; they keep a record of who bought which batch; and it carries the required label and warning statement. If any of those is not you, the listing is refused. Registered suppliers can list straight away, and MPI's own page on selling raw milk to consumers has the detail.
And nothing illegal, obviously. If you're unsure about something, ask us through the app before listing.
Yes, and there is a category for each. Seeds now has its own section with vegetable, fruit and berry, flower, herb, and tree and shrub seeds in it, alongside seedlings and plants under Garden and outdoors.
Seed and living plants carry two rules that nothing else at a gate stall does, so the listing form asks about both:
Pest plants. More than 200 plants are on the National Pest Plant Accord list, and under the Biosecurity Act 1993 they cannot be sold, given away or grown on anywhere in New Zealand. That covers the seed as much as the plant, and it covers every variety and form of a listed species. Some are commoner in gardens than people expect.
Plant variety rights. Modern named varieties can be protected, and since the Plant Variety Rights Act 2022 a breeder's rights reach the seed as well as the plant. Seed you have saved from open pollinated or heritage varieties needs nobody's permission, and that is what most gate stall seed is.
You will also be asked to confirm that anything collected from the wild was taken with the landowner's permission and not off a protected plant, and that you have named it honestly, which means saying so if you are not certain of the variety and not promising how much of it will come up.
Seeds sold to eat rather than to sow, like sunflower or pumpkin seeds and sprouting seed, are food, so they belong under produce or pantry and carry the food rules instead.
Yes, and for cakes specifically, the rules are friendlier than most people think. Under an MPI Food Notice, shelf-stable cakes made in a home kitchen and sold directly to the buyer are exempt from Food Act registration until 31 October 2028.
To qualify: it must actually be a cake (including dairy-free or egg-free versions), it must keep safely at room temperature, or be eaten within 3 to 5 days without refrigeration, it must be sold direct to the person eating it (not for resale, and not for export), and you must be able to recall a product and tell MPI promptly if something's wrong with one. General food safety and labelling rules still apply, including allergen information on the label.
What the exemption does not cover: bread, sourdough, pies, and other baking. Those still need registration under a National Programme with your local council (bread is National Programme level 2).
One quiet advantage of selling your cakes through GateShare: the recall condition means keeping track of what was sold and when, and your GateShare order history does exactly that, a record a cash tin at the gate never gave you.
When you list a cake, the app asks you to confirm each of the exemption's conditions, and keeps a dated record. The notice and MPI's guidance are on MPI's Who is exempt from Food Act requirements page, worth a read before your first bake sale.
Yes, and honey has its own rules that apply no matter how small you are, even one hive in the backyard:
Your hives must be registered. Every beekeeper in New Zealand must register their hives under the American Foulbrood Pest Management Plan. That's not a selling rule, it's a beekeeping rule, and it applies before the first jar is filled.
Your honey must meet the tutin limits. Tutin is a natural toxin that can end up in honey in some areas and seasons, and honey sold in NZ must meet the limits in the Food Standards Code. Where and when you harvested matters, comb honey especially.
Extraction, packing and labelling have to meet the food rules like any packaged food, ingredients and allergen labelling included.
When you list honey on GateShare, you'll be asked to confirm all three, and we keep a dated record of what you confirmed. If you're unsure about any of them, MPI has the details on managing tutin contamination in honey and on honey and bee product processing requirements. Sort it before you list, not after.
Yes, if it was caught legally. The Department of Conservation has confirmed to us how the rules work in practice:
In season (1 September to 30 October), whitebait caught legally under DOC's rules can be sold as normal.
Out of season, you may still sell whitebait that was caught legally during an open season and frozen since. DOC's position is that legally caught bait stays legal to eat, give away or sell after freezing.
Freezing doesn't make an illegal catch legal. Whitebait taken outside the season, or against DOC's rules, can't be sold at all, fresh or frozen. The freezer only does one thing: it lets a legal season's catch be sold later.
So GateShare lets you list whitebait all year round, and simply asks you to confirm which it is. Tick honestly. The confirmations are recorded against your listing, and they protect you as much as anyone.
Poultry is a category of its own and very welcome: hens, roosters, point of lay pullets, chicks, fertile eggs, ducks, turkeys and quail.
Your birds are not sitting in a box at the roadside. You set your listing so that you check each order, so a buyer orders, you confirm, and you arrange a collection time with them through the app. The birds stay in their run until somebody is actually coming.
When you list, you confirm three things: that you raised the birds or have kept them long enough to honestly know their health, that they are healthy and cared for in line with the Animal Welfare Act, and that you will give the buyer honest care information covering age, feed and any vaccinations.
Usually not. In New Zealand, if you grow it yourself and sell it directly to the person who'll eat it, you can generally sell without any licence or registration, that covers eggs, fruit and veg at typical gate scale. Honey is the exception, see below. Home-baked and home-preserved foods have simple extra rules, and a few things (like cheese or meat) need a registered kitchen or licence. When you list an item, GateShare shows you the plain-English rules for that exact category and keeps a record that you've confirmed them. Honest caveat: we point you at the rules, but they're yours to meet. MPI's Who is exempt from Food Act requirements page has the fine print.
You pick what you want and how many, and tap to reserve.
Some stalls sell instantly. Others check every order first, and some check only orders from buyers who have no rating yet, or whose rating sits below what that seller is comfortable with. That is set by the seller.
If the stall checks orders, you decide how long you are willing to wait. In your basket you choose 6, 12, 24 or 48 hours, and 24 is the usual choice. The seller sees that clock and gets a nudge from GateShare three quarters of the way through it. They can ask for a little longer once, up to 24 hours more, and you are told if they do. If your wait runs out with no answer, the order ends itself, you are emailed, and the goods go back on the shelf for somebody else.
The seller's clock runs the other way. A seller can also say how long you have to collect once they have confirmed: 4, 8, 12, 24 or 48 hours. This is what keeps perishable things sensible, so nobody arrives for cream two days later. You see that window before you pay, on the listing and again in your basket, and it is counted from the moment the seller confirms, not from when you ordered.
Cash or card. Those are the two ways. A stall can accept either, or both, and where a stall takes both it is the buyer who chooses at checkout. Nothing else goes through GateShare, and there is no bank transfer option.
Paying cash at the gate. No money touches GateShare at all. You turn up, you pay the seller, you take the goods. Once the order is confirmed you get the pickup address and the seller's notes.
Only the buyer can confirm a pickup, because only the buyer knows whether they actually walked away with the goods. That confirmation is what completes the sale. If nobody confirms, a cash order closes itself 48 hours after it started. Closed, not completed: GateShare has no way of knowing whether cash changed hands at that gate, so it will not record a sale that may never have happened, and it does not count toward the seller's figures. Both of you can still leave a review on a closed order, and neither account is treated as fact, because a seller who set aside a box of eggs for somebody who never came should not be left with no trace of it.
Paying by card. Your card is authorised when you order and the money is held, not taken. Stripe holds it against your card, and GateShare never sees or stores your card number. You collect, then you confirm you have the goods, and that confirmation is what sends the money into the seller's own Stripe account. Every stall has its own, and GateShare never holds a seller's takings.
If you never confirm, the payment goes to the seller automatically 48 hours after the order started. That clock is the same at every stall and no seller can shorten it, because it is also the window in which a problem can be raised.
If the seller never confirms your order, you are not charged. The order ends itself and the hold on your card is cancelled, not left to expire quietly.
If you simply do not collect in time, the money goes to the seller. They set aside what you asked for and lost the sale, so it stays with them.
Yes. Choose your quantity when reserving (two dozen eggs is two taps), and you can make multiple purchases from the same stall for a single pickup trip.
Life happens at the gate, and most hiccups sort themselves with one friendly message to the seller. Beyond that, here's exactly how it works.
Changing your mind on a cash order. Either side can cancel before pickup. No money has moved, so there is nothing to unwind.
Changing your mind on a card order. Within five minutes of ordering it cancels instantly and the hold is released. After that, cancelling becomes a request the seller answers, because by then they may have picked, packed or set your order aside.
Raising a problem. If something is genuinely wrong, you tell GateShare which of these it was: you went to collect and there was nothing there; the quality was poor, so you left it; or you collected it and something is wrong with it. "Something came up and I could not get there" is not on that list, because it is not a complaint. That goes to the seller as an ordinary cancellation request.
A photo helps every time, and is only required in one case. If you have the goods in your hands, a photo is asked for, because it is the quickest thing there is to settle a question about them. If you went and found nothing, a photo is invited rather than demanded: it often settles it, since a picture of the gate shows straight away whether you were in the right place, but an honest buyer at the right gate may have nothing to show and must not be punished for that.
Who gets the benefit of the doubt depends on who is holding the thing of value. If you went and there was nothing there, the seller still has both the goods and the money, so it leans your way. If you collected the goods, you are holding the food, so it leans the seller's way. And if you never went at all, nothing leans your way, because nobody let you down.
What happens, and when. First, the two of you talk, and the seller can put it right, offer something, or explain. After 24 hours with nothing settled it escalates on its own, because a seller who says nothing must never be rewarded by the money quietly releasing to them. GateShare then has 48 hours to decide, since a bank's hold does not last for ever and a decision made after the money has gone is worth nothing to either side. A person reads what both of you have said and decides. It is not a machine applying a rule to your money.
Still stuck? Tap 🛟 Help in the app and a human (hello!) will email you back.
A stallholder can block a buyer from their stall. It affects that one stall only. Every other stall on GateShare is unaffected and the buyer's account is untouched.
For the seller. That buyer can no longer order from you, message you, follow your stall, or see it at all. Your stall disappears from their map and their search results.
For the buyer. You are not told and no message is sent. The stall is simply not there any more.
If an order is still running between you, the buyer keeps the conversation until it is finished, so a pickup already under way can be completed and nobody who has paid is stranded. They cannot start anything new.
Reviews are deliberately not blocked. A review can only be left against an order that finished, so the person leaving it did trade at that gate. If blocking silenced reviews, blocking would become a way to erase an honest bad one, and the ratings buyers rely on would stop meaning much. A spiteful review is handled the way it always was: report it, and it can be taken down.
Your exact address is never public. The map shows your stall in your area with the pin deliberately blurred, and your detailed collection instructions go to a buyer only once their order is confirmed.
You choose how you are paid: cash at the gate, card through Stripe, or both. Card money goes into your own Stripe account, never into GateShare's hands.
Ratings run both ways, buyers rate stalls and sellers rate buyers, and a rating can only come from a real finished order.
You can make your stall check every order before it goes ahead, or check only orders from buyers with no rating or a low one.
Every member verifies a real New Zealand mobile number before they can buy or sell.
You can block a buyer, and report anything to a real person.
And the stall is yours: take it offline with one tap, pause it for the season, or delete it entirely whenever you like.
Every member verifies a real New Zealand mobile number before they can buy or sell. Sellers in the regulated categories, eggs, honey, dairy and cured meat, declare their registrations when they list, and GateShare keeps those on record. Ratings come only from real finished orders, and there is a complaints process with a person at the end of it.
What GateShare does not do is pretend to inspect kitchens or taste the jam. You are buying from a neighbour at their gate, the way it has always worked, with a record behind it that never used to exist.
You do, and that is rather the point. You collect from the gate yourself, and most sellers take cash there, so you can stand in front of the eggs before a dollar moves.
GateShare is not a courier sending you a mystery box. It is a map of what your neighbours have at their gates today, so you stop driving past full stalls without knowing they were there.
If you would rather order ahead by card, the seller confirms it personally and you still collect it yourself.
To protect sellers. The circle shows the rough area a stall is in, never the exact spot, and the address is only shared once an order is confirmed. The price tag on a circle shows the cheapest item matching your search, so you can compare at a glance without opening every stall.
Sellers: the public map shows only a rough circle around your area, never your exact spot. Your address is shared only with a buyer whose order is confirmed, and only for 48 hours. Buyers: we never ask for your address at all, there's nothing to share.
Only the one that keeps you signed in. Without it you could not stay signed in, so it is always on and there is nothing to agree to.
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Some do, in their own way. Plenty of rural sellers drive to town on set days, and many are happy to bring your order with them. If a stall does drop-offs, you will see a 🚗 Drop-offs note on their stall saying when and where, for example "in Blenheim Tuesdays and Fridays".
GateShare does not handle delivery itself, there are no couriers and no delivery fees in the app. You simply message the seller and arrange it between you, then confirm the order as usual once the goods are in your hands. It works exactly like collecting, except they meet you halfway.
Some sellers flag items as open to swaps or koha, very Kiwi. Message them with your offer: your lemons for their eggs, and sort the details between you.
And yes, please list free things, we would love you to. Free, koha and swap listings never count against the listing limit on any plan, including the free one. That is written into the Terms as well as into the app. Surplus lemons, spare seedlings, a rooster who needs a new home for nothing, all welcome.
One stall does it. A stall can list across every category at once, so the firewood, the eggs and the flowers sit on the same page at the same gate. The In Trade plan is built for that: unlimited listings and a place for your business website.
Each kind of thing has its own honesty declarations when you list it, and the form walks you through them in plain English.
Then the free plan is yours and it will never cost you anything. One priced listing at a time, buyers pay you at the gate, and when the plums are done you take it down until next summer. If your once a year thing is free or koha, it does not even use that slot. Nobody should pay a subscription for a fortnight of plums.
Free for buyers, always. GateShare takes no commission on your sales, ever. The subscription is the whole business model.
How long a paid plan is free for you depends on when you join, and it applies to whichever plan you pick, Stallholder or In Trade:
Your free period starts at launch (1 September 2026) if you joined before then, so nobody spends their free months on a quiet site. Any future GateShare fees will always be shown clearly before you commit to anything.
From launch, sellers choose a plan: Free ($0, one priced listing at a time with a photo, cash sales), Stallholder ($10 a month, up to 8 priced listings with up to 5 photos each, card payments), or In Trade ($40 a month for registered businesses, unlimited listings and a place for your own website on your stall page).
Two things will never cost anything, on any plan:
Cash sales at the gate. When a buyer pays you in cash, there are no fees of any kind.
Giving things away. A listing that's free, or for koha or swap, costs nothing to list and doesn't use up your plan's listing allowance. Generosity never counts against you.
One more rule worth knowing: it's one stall per person and per property. Households with two genuinely separate sellers can ask us about an exception.
This one is worth understanding before you price your eggs.
GateShare takes nothing from your sales. Not a cent, on any plan, ever. The only cost GateShare has is the monthly plan, and cash sales at the gate cost nobody anything.
Card payments are handled by Stripe, the licensed payment company. Stripe charges a processing fee on every card transaction, and the seller pays that fee: it comes off before the money reaches your bank. As at September 2026 Stripe's published New Zealand rate is 2.65% plus 30 cents on each card sale, so a $10 sale costs about 57 cents and a $40 sale about $1.36. Cards from overseas cost a little more. Stripe sets its own fees and can change them, so Stripe's New Zealand pricing page has today's numbers, and you will see them again when you set up your Stripe account. This applies even during any free or promotional period, because it is Stripe's cost, not ours. The same figures, with your own minimum card order worked out, are in your Stall settings under Getting paid.
Price with it in mind. If a card fee comes off the top, factor it into what you charge, the same way a market stall factors in their site fee.
Cash is always free. Cash on pickup costs nothing at all, to anyone. If you would rather not pay card fees, accept cash only. That choice is yours, and you can change it any time in your stall settings.
Plans and card details are managed from Account and billing on the GateShare website. They cannot be changed in the phone apps.
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