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 at least 48 hours, not for ever, so a seller's home address does not sit on a stranger's phone indefinitely. If the seller has given you longer than that to collect, it stays for as long as they gave you, up to 72 hours.
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.
Some of these come with rules. When you list honey, home baking, preserves, eggs, dairy, meat, whitebait or a live animal, the app shows you the plain English rules for that exact category and asks you to confirm them before the listing goes up. That confirmation is recorded with the listing. We point you at the rules; they are yours to meet. Whitebait is caught under the Whitebait Fishing Regulations 2021, and that is what the app asks you to confirm.
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 2014 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 counts as a cake? MPI's own guidance on the notice says cupcakes, brownies, muffins, panettone, panforte and doughnuts all count. Cookies, biscuits, cheesecake, macarons, cinnamon rolls and rusks do not.
What the exemption does not cover: bread, sourdough, pies, biscuits, and other baking. Those still need registration under a National Programme with your local council (bread is National Programme level 2). And one condition people miss: the exemption only applies if cakes are the only baking you sell. If you also make biscuits or bread for sale from the same kitchen, MPI says you need to be registered for those, and the cakes are not exempt either.
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 1999, and that you will give the buyer honest care information covering age, feed and any vaccinations.
There is one more thing to read before you sell or buy a bird right now. See the bird flu answer, immediately below.
H5 bird flu has been found in New Zealand. Where things stand changes, so this page does not try to tell you. The current picture is on MPI's H5 bird flu pages, and that is the place to look rather than this one.
What does not change is how you handle a bird moving from one property to another, and that is what selling is. The advice below is MPI's own, for bird owners, put into gate stall words. Where this page and MPI differ, MPI is right.
If you are buying birds, this is the one that matters.
MPI asks you to keep new birds in a separate area away from your other birds for 14 days, and to be satisfied they are healthy before they go in with your flock. That is what quarantine means here: a separate pen, a spare run, the other end of the shed. That is their advice for any new bird joining a flock, not only for birds coming home from a show. If you have no way to keep a bird apart for a fortnight, that is worth sorting out before you order, not after.
While they are apart: see to your own birds first and the new ones last, wash your hands afterwards, and keep a separate pair of boots or a cover for that pen if you can. Keep a note of every bird coming onto your place and where it came from.
If you are selling birds
Do not sell or move any bird if there is any sign of illness in your flock. Take the listing down until you are sure, and nobody will think the worse of you for it.
Clean and disinfect carriers, crates and anything else a bird travels in, before and after. Hand the birds over away from your run where you can, so a buyer is not walking through it, and keep a note of every bird leaving your place and who took it.
Tell the buyer the age, the feed and any vaccinations, which you confirm when you list anyway, and tell them plainly if you have had anything sick lately.
If a bird gets sick, or you find dead wild birds
Keep it away from the others and ring MPI's exotic pest and disease hotline on 0800 809 966, or report it at report.mpi.govt.nz. Several dead wild birds in one place is worth the same call. It costs nothing to ring and they would far rather hear from you early.
Live animals are welcome where GateShare has a category for them: sheep and lambs, goats, pigs, cattle, deer, horses and ponies, alpacas and llamas. Live, going to a new home. GateShare is never for home kill, and never for meat from the animal you are selling. Professionally processed meat, bacon, salami and the like made under a registered programme, has its own category under Meat and seafood.
An animal is paid for directly to the seller, not through the app. You cannot pay for a live animal by card in GateShare. The listing is there so you can find each other; you message the seller, go and see the animal, and settle it between you, by cash, bank transfer or whatever you agree. Everything else in your basket can still be paid for by card.
What the seller confirms when they list. That the animals are theirs to sell, that they are healthy and fit to travel, and that they will satisfy themselves the buyer has somewhere suitable and knows how to care for them. For sheep, goats and pigs, that they will complete an Animal Status Declaration before the animals leave their property, and that it will go with the animals to the buyer. Cattle and deer need that same Animal Status Declaration, and on top of it they must be tagged and registered in NAIT (run by OSPRI), and the seller must record the movement off their property within the time the law allows.
What the buyer takes on. From the moment you collect, the animal's welfare and its lawful transport are yours under the Animal Welfare Act 1999. Keep the Animal Status Declaration that comes with it. For cattle and deer you need your own NAIT number and you must record the movement onto your property too. If you do not have somewhere suitable for the animal, do not buy it.
It depends entirely on what the food is, and for a good deal of home kitchen food the answer is yes. This is the part people most often assume is easier than it is, so here it is plainly, in three groups.
1. No registration needed
Your own unprocessed fruit and vegetables, sold straight to the person who will eat them. That is MPI's grower exemption and it is what most gate stalls live under. Unprocessed is the word doing the work: whole and raw. Cut, dried, juiced, cooked or bottled is processing, and processing takes you out of the exemption.
Shelf-stable cakes made in your own kitchen and sold direct. MPI counts cupcakes, brownies, muffins, panettone, panforte and doughnuts as cakes. It does not count bread, biscuits, cookies, cinnamon rolls, cheesecake or pies, and those still need registration.
Eggs from your own birds sit under different rules again, not the Food Act 2014. One hundred female birds or fewer and selling direct, or a registered risk management programme with MPI above that.
2. Registration usually IS needed, and this is the group most people assume is exempt
Jams, chutneys, relishes, sauces and preserves. These are not on MPI's exempt list. Making something in your own kitchen does not by itself exempt it, and a home preserve generally needs a registered food control plan or a national programme. When you list one, the app asks you to confirm you have what is needed, or that you have checked and know you do not.
Any baking that is not a shelf-stable cake, and anything that needs the fridge to be safe.
3. And a few need a great deal more than a registration
Cured and preserved meat, bacon and salami and the like, needs a registered food control plan or risk management programme and the meat must come from an animal killed at a licensed premises. Home kill and wild shot cannot be sold at all, whatever is done to them afterwards. This is the category people underestimate most.
Dairy, including cheese, needs a registered plan, milk from your own animals, and either pasteurisation or a separate registration if it is a raw milk product.
Raw drinking milk has a registration scheme of its own and five conditions. It is under what cannot be sold, further up.
Honey has its own rules too, and they are friendlier than these. There is an answer of its own below.
What GateShare does, and what it does not. When you list, the app shows you the plain English rules for that exact category and asks you to confirm them, and keeps a record that you did, with the date. That record is not a licence, and it is not us checking. We put the rules in front of you; meeting them is yours. If you are not sure where you sit, MPI's My Food Rules will tell you and it takes a few minutes. The fine print is on MPI's Who is exempt from Food Act requirements page, and the law itself is the Food Act 2014.
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.
Either of you can mark a cash order collected. The buyer confirms they have the goods, or the seller marks it collected and the buyer is told, quietly, so that somebody who did not collect can say so. Either one completes the sale. If nobody does, 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.
Yes, and it is free. A school, kura, preschool, club or community group raising funds gets the Fundraiser plan: as many listings as you like, five photos on each, card payments or cash at the gate, no charge and no end date. Bake sales, firewood, pinecones, plants from the school garden: anything you are raising money with, as long as it is the kind of thing GateShare is for (see what can I sell above). A fundraiser stall is still a gate stall, so a raffle, a quiz night ticket or a box of chocolate bars from a fundraising company does not belong here. Your stall carries a fundraiser badge so buyers know where the money goes.
How to get it. Sign up as usual. A school signing up with its .school.nz email address is recognised automatically. Any other group, or a school using a different address, sends us a message through the app once signed up and we switch the plan on. One account per organisation.
Selling food to fundraise. The Food Act 2014 lets a school, club or group sell food to raise funds up to 20 times in a calendar year without registering (MPI explains the exemption on its exemptions page). When you list food, the app asks you to confirm that the sale is fundraising and that you are within that. The food still has to be safe and suitable, and labelled with its ingredients and allergens, and that part is yours.
No. That is GateShare keeping your home private. You place your pin on your address, and that exact spot is never shown to anyone. The pin buyers see on the map is moved up to about 500 metres away, in a random direction, chosen once and kept. So it will look a bit off. That is the point.
Moving your location does not fix it. It just rolls a new random spot, and a stall can only move once every 30 days. Only change your location if you have actually moved house. Your real address and your directions go to a buyer once their order is confirmed, and to nobody else.
A drop off is different: that pin is shown exactly where you put it, because it is a public place you chose to announce. So are a market and a community event.
Your exact address is never public. The map shows your stall in your area with the pin deliberately moved up to about 500 metres from your address (see why your pin is not on your house), 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 close it whenever you like. Everything is kept, your listings, your settings and your sales history, and it all comes back when you reopen. Nothing is wiped until you close your account for good.
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 who is collecting from your own address, and only for 48 hours, or for however long you gave them to collect if that is longer.
A buyer collecting somewhere else you have published is not sent your gate address at all. A drop off, or a market or community event you are going to. They are sent that place, which is public anyway, and whatever you wrote about how to spot you there. Your gate has nothing to do with their trip.
A temporary stall works the other way round, and like your own gate: its pin on the map is blurred to a rough area, so the exact address goes to a buyer with a confirmed order and goes again when the order finishes.
Buyers: we never ask for your address at all, there's nothing to share.
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 town 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.
While your free months run, you are simply on the Stallholder plan, automatically, with no card and nothing to tap: up to 10 listings, five photos on each, and card payments. The date you can see is the day those free months end. On that day you move to the Free plan unless you have chosen a plan and added a card. Nothing is deleted: if you have more priced listings than the Free plan covers, GateShare asks YOU which one stays live and the rest wait quietly.
The Free plan does not expire and it never costs anything. Nothing is ever charged unless you pick a paid plan yourself and enter a card. GateShare cannot charge a card it does not have.
If you did choose a paid plan and entered a card, your first payment comes out on that date, at the plan price you picked. You can change plan or cancel any time before it, from Account and billing, and if you cancel you drop back to the Free plan rather than losing your stall.
And whichever plan you are on, GateShare takes no commission on your sales. That does not change on any date.
Lovely, it makes your plan free until the date on the flyer. If your own free months already run later than that, you keep yours, and the code has nothing to add. It works whether you joined last week or joined ages ago.
Where to put it: sign in on the GateShare website at gateshare.co.nz, open Account and billing, then Plans, and type it into the box that says Got a code from a GateShare flyer? Capitals and spaces do not matter. It cannot go in from the phone apps, the same as plans.
Your extra months are free on whichever plan you like, Stallholder or In Trade, with no card needed, and you can swap between the two on the website while they run. When they end you move to the Free plan like everyone else, nothing is charged and nothing is deleted.
Each account can use one code, once. Codes must be entered by the date printed on the flyer. If you have already added a card, message us under Need a hand with your code and we will sort your free months for you.
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:
You do not need a card for Stallholder, and there is nothing to tap. While your free months run you are simply on the Stallholder plan: no card is asked for and nothing is charged, because there is no card to charge. When the free months end you move to the Free plan, nothing is deleted, and you can add a card then if you want to carry on. In Trade can be started for your free months without a card too, from Account and billing on the website.
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.
To be clear about what that date means: it is the day your free months end. Until then you are on the Stallholder plan automatically, free, with no card. After it you are on the Free plan, which does not expire and never costs anything, so if you never add a card, nothing is ever charged. See what happens when my free period ends.
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 10 priced listings with up to 5 photos each, card payments), or In Trade ($40 a month for sellers in trade, meaning selling that is regular, organised and for profit, whether or not you are a registered business; unlimited listings and a place for your own website on your stall page). Both paid plans can also be paid for a year at a time, at a discounted rate. The yearly price is shown in the app when you choose a plan.
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.
A market is a place where several stalls are selling. A farmers market, a car boot sale, a craft fair, the hall on a Saturday morning.
A community event is a family friendly thing where everyone is welcome and selling is not the point, though there may be some stalls there. A community fireworks night, an A&P show, a school gala, a fun run.
They look different on the map. A market is a 🎪 tent and a community event is a 🎈 balloon. A market shows how many stalls are going. A community event does not, because people are not coming to it to shop.
It is GateShare's decision which events go on the site and which do not. Anything that is not family friendly, or is really an advertisement dressed up as an event, comes off.
No. Anyone with a GateShare account can put either one on. A market committee, a school, a playcentre, a hall society, a rural women's group. You do not have to be selling anything and you do not need a stall.
When you put one on there is a tick that says whether you will have a stall there yourself. Leave it unticked and the market still goes on the map, you are simply the one who organised it rather than one of the sellers.
You can add a photograph of the poster and a few words about it, up to 600 characters, and for a community event you can say that everyone is welcome.
Up to a year ahead. You can put it on as soon as you know the date. It is saved straight away, and it shows on the map from 30 days before, so what is on the map is what is actually coming up rather than a wall of things in April.
Until then you will find it under Saved for later, where you can take it down if plans change.
A market can repeat every week, every fortnight or once a month. If its dates do not follow a pattern, pick On dates I choose and add each date. Either way only the next date shows on the map, and the one after appears once it is over. A community event is one date at a time.
You can put on three in a day. That is a brake on nonsense, not a quota anybody is meant to reach.
Tap the 🎪 tent or the 🎈 balloon on the map, then tap I'm going, list my stall. Your stall's name goes up under that market alongside everyone else going, so a buyer looking at it can see who will be there.
For a market that repeats you can join just that date, or tap 🔁 Go every time and be listed for all of them. Either can be undone at any time.
Whoever put the market on gets a note inside the app saying your stall joined. That note carries your stall's name and nothing else, and it is never emailed or texted to them.
A stall can be signed up to ten upcoming markets and events at once.
It depends who else is relying on it.
If you organised it and you are not selling there, it is yours to cancel. Open it and tap Take it down, twice to be sure. Every stall that had said it was going is told. The playcentre that called off the garage sale should not need anyone's permission.
If it is your own stall's market and other stalls have joined it, you cannot take it down on your own, because it is their market too now. You can say you are not going, and the market stays up for the rest of them.
If the whole thing really is off, tap 🙋 Ask GateShare to take it down and tell us why. A person reads it. Any stall going to it can ask, not just whoever typed it in, because the sellers often hear first.
A repeating market can also skip a single date. Take that one date down and the rest of the pattern carries on.
Four kinds, and the key sits under the map.
An orange circle is a stall. The circle is the rough area, never the exact spot, and the price on it is the cheapest thing matching your search.
A green car is a drop off: a seller bringing orders somewhere on set days, like the supermarket car park on Tuesdays.
A terracotta tent is a market, with the number of stalls going.
A yellow balloon is a community event.
The car, the tent and the balloon sit exactly where they were put, unlike a stall circle, because they are public places somebody chose to announce.
A drop off is you meeting buyers somewhere public for a set time. The Tuesday run into town, a morning at the school gate, an hour at the boat ramp car park. You set the place, the days and the hours, and buyers see a 🚗 green car there.
A market, a fair or an A&P show is not a drop off. Put the show itself on the map as a market, then tap I'm going, list my stall, and your stall is listed under the one pin with everybody else going. A green car of your own at the showground only means people have to find you twice.
A drop off's place is shown exactly, and publicly, to anybody looking at the map. That is the point of it: people have to be able to find you. So a drop off is for a car park, a hall, a verge or a domain, and not for somebody's house. If what you want is to sell from a gate that is not your usual one, at your mother's place for the week say, that is a temporary stall, which is a different thing and has a setting of its own. Its pin is blurred to a rough area like a home gate, so the address is never put on the map. Set that up instead, and there is an answer about it below.
Say how buyers will spot you once they are there: the vehicle, the rego, which corner of the car park. That part is private. The place is on the map for anyone to see; this is read only by somebody who has already ordered from you, and it goes again when their order finishes.
A one off drop off comes off the map the minute its last finish time passes. A regular one, the same weekdays each week, stays up while you keep extending it and goes within a month of the last time you did.
When you set one up you tick to say you are allowed to be at that place. If it is somebody else's property you need to have asked them, and a public car park or verge can have rules of its own, so it is worth a word with the council or the owner.
Yes. A temporary stall is your stall moved somewhere else for a stretch: house sitting at your mother's for a fortnight, staying at the bach over summer, a season at a relative's orchard. Your usual gate is not where buyers should come, and you want them coming to the other place instead.
Its pin is blurred, exactly like your own stall's pin. A rough area on the map, never the exact spot, with the address going to a buyer once their order is confirmed and going again when it finishes. That is the whole difference between it and a drop off, and it is the reason it is a separate thing rather than a setting on one.
Where to set one up. Stall settings, then Markets, events and drop offs, then Set up a temporary stall. You give the rough area, the address, which days you are there and the hours, and you tick to say you are allowed to be there. A stay runs up to a week at a time, and you can leave a day out of the middle if you are not selling that day.
Your usual gate comes off the map while it is on, unless you untick that. It comes back by itself when the stay ends, and the stay comes off the map the minute its last day finishes. If you do untick it, buyers are asked at checkout which of the two they are coming to.
A drop off is not a substitute, and please do not use one for this. A drop off is shown exactly and publicly, because people have to find your car in a car park. Put a house in one and you have published that address to anybody looking at the map, signed in or not. If it is not your house, it is not yours to publish.
Setting up? The step by step how to guide covers your stall, your first item, card payments and drop offs. More questions? Tap 🛟 Help inside GateShare, or email hello@gateshare.co.nz. See also our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.