How to use GateShare

On GateShare, your stall is just your seller page. It holds everything you sell, and it puts you on the map. You need one even to sell a single thing.

It doesn't have to be an actual stall. No sign, no table, no honesty box, not even a gate. Your "stall" is simply wherever a buyer collects from, for example:

• your front door, or a chilly bin on the porch
• your letterbox
• a table in the carport, or a box halfway down the drive
• a park, a car park or somewhere in town where you meet them
• or you drop it round to them

You don't need a business, and it doesn't have to be regular. One spare box of lemons is enough.

First, join GateShare (it's free) and confirm your email with the code we send you. Check your junk folder if it doesn't arrive in a minute or two.

1. Tap You at the bottom of the screen, then Selling.
2. Tap Start your stall.
3. Give it a name and your rough area, like the name of your town or road. That's all buyers see on the map.
4. Find your address on the map. Your exact address stays private (see section 7).
5. Choose how you'll be paid: cash at the gate, card in GateShare, or both. You can change this later.
6. Press the button to create it. Your stall is live straight away.

The first time you sell, GateShare also texts a code to your mobile to confirm it's a real New Zealand number. It only happens once.

Right after you make your stall, the Add an item form opens by itself. Any other time: You then Selling then ➕ Add an item.

1. Choose what kind of thing it is first. Eggs, baking, firewood, plants and so on. This matters, because it decides which questions you're asked.
2. Give it a name and a price. Add a photo if you can. Even a quick phone snap sells far better than none.
3. Say how many you have, if you like, and add a short note.
4. Tick the "I confirm…" boxes at the bottom. These are the plain English rules for that kind of item, like food safety for baking or the paperwork for animals. Every box must be ticked.
5. Say when a buyer can collect it. It's there now means anyone can buy it and come and get it without asking you first, so only pick that if somebody could turn up within the hour and it would be waiting. By arrangement means you confirm each order and sort a time.
6. Press Add to stall.

To share one listing rather than your whole stall, open it and tap ↗ Share this listing. Whoever you send it to lands on that one thing, with its photo on the card, and your stall is one tap away.

On the Free plan, one priced item can be live at a time. Free, koha and swap items never count, so list as many of those as you like.

Cash at the gate is free, always, on every plan. The buyer pays you when they collect. Nothing goes through GateShare.

Card payments let buyers pay in the app. They come with the Stallholder or In Trade plan. The money goes into your own Stripe account, then to your bank. GateShare never holds your money and takes no commission.

How to set up Stripe

1. Tap You then Selling, and open 💳 Getting paid.
2. Tick Accept card payments, then tap Set up card payments.
3. This opens Stripe's own page (Stripe is the licensed payment company). It asks for your name, date of birth, address and bank account number. Have that handy. It takes about five minutes. GateShare never sees or stores any of it.
4. When you're done you come back to GateShare. If it says "nearly there", Stripe is still checking, or something on its form needs you. Tap Continue setting up.
5. When it says 💳 Card payments are on, you're done.

Stripe's fee: Stripe charges a small fee on each card sale, which comes off before the money reaches you. As at September 2026 it's 2.65% plus 30 cents in New Zealand, so about 57 cents on a $10 sale. Stripe sets it and can change it. Cash sales have no fee.

Plans and cards are changed on the GateShare website, under Account and billing, not in the phone apps.

Selling somewhere else for a day? There are two kinds, and both put you on the map where you'll actually be on that day.

• A market or event: a farmers market, a school fair, an A&P show. Everyone going is listed together, under one pin for the whole market, so buyers can see every stall that will be there.
• A drop off, just you: you will be in one spot at a set time, so buyers can get their orders in first or come and see what you have. A car on the map, not a tent. Not a market, just you.

Buyers order from your stall as usual, then collect from you there. A drop off can be set up for today or up to 30 days ahead. A market can be put on up to a year ahead, and it shows on the map from 30 days before. Both can run for more than one day, with their own hours each day: a weekend show open 12 to 5 on the Saturday and 10 to 12 on the Sunday is one market, not two. Seven days is the most in one go.

Your pin stays on the map the whole time it is set up, so locals learn you come, and the words under it say whether you are there right now: "On now, until 11am", or "On again tomorrow, 10am to midday". When the last day finishes, it comes off the map, pin and all. Nothing on GateShare ever says you are there when you are not.

Going to a market or event

1. Tap You, Selling, then ⚙️ Stall settings, and open Markets, events and drop offs.
2. Tap I'm going to a market or event. You'll see the ones other sellers have already added, closest first.
3. If yours is there, tap I'm going. That's it: you're listed.
4. If it isn't, tap Not listed? Add it. Give its name, the days it is on with the hours for each, and put its pin on the map. Tap Add it, and list me as going. Other sellers going can now find it and say they're going too. This screen lists your stall as going, because that is what it is for; if you run a market you are not selling at, put it on from the map instead.
5. A market's days have to run one after the other, because two separate weekends are two markets. Add the other weekend on its own.
6. Give the real times for each day. A market set up before October could say its hours in words, and those are still shown as they were, but nothing can tell when a market written in words has finished.

You can go to more than one. Changed your mind? Tap Not going.

A market that's on every week, fortnight or month

When you add a market, How often is it on? lets you choose Just this once, Every week, Every fortnight or Once a month. The day you pick sets the pattern, so the first Saturday of October means the first Saturday of every month. A market that repeats is one day each time: if it is a two day show, choose Just this once and add both days.

• Only one date shows at a time. When that day is over, the next one appears by itself.
• Going to one? Tap Every time and you're listed on each date as it appears, or Just this date for this one only.
• Going every time but not this week? Tap Not this time. You'll stay on the next one. Two days before each date you'll get a little reminder, in case your plans have changed.
• Running the market and it's not on one week? Tap Take this date down (gap week). The stalls going are told, and the next date shows straight away.

Putting a market or a community event on the map, with no stall

You do not need a stall to put something on the map. A farmers market is run by a committee, an A&P show by a society, a car boot sale by a playcentre. None of them is a seller, and none of them should have to pretend to be one. Any confirmed member can put on either kind.

There are two kinds and you are asked which first, because they mean different things to a buyer:

• A market, a fair or a show. Stalls selling things. GateShare sellers can say they are going and are listed under one pin. It can repeat: every week, every fortnight, or once a month.
• A community event. A garage sale, a car boot sale, a working bee. Something the district is welcome at rather than something to buy from. One date at a time: add the next one when it comes round.

1. Open the Map. Under the key that says what the pins mean, tap Put a market or a community event on the map, then say which it is.
2. Give it its name, the days and hours, and put its pin on the map.
3. Running a market but not selling at it? Leave I will have a stall there myself unticked. Your pin still shows, with nobody going, until sellers say they are coming. Tick it and your own stall is listed as going too.
4. Add a few words and the poster if you have one. For a garage sale the flyer is usually the whole advert, so a photo of it is plenty.
5. Tick I run this market, or I am putting this event on, if it is yours. Tick it only if that is true. If you are telling people about something somebody else runs, leave it, and the pin says it was added by a member of the public rather than by whoever runs it. Both are welcome here; the pin just says which, so nobody is misled about where the times came from.
6. Tap Put it on the map. Give it half a minute to show up.

Anything you put on yourself shows on the map even with nobody going, because it is happening whether or not a GateShare seller is there. That is the one way it differs from a market a seller added because they are going to it: that one hides when nobody is going, because it would be sending buyers to an empty field.

It comes off the map by itself when its last day finishes, and the poster is deleted with it. You can take it down at any time, however many stalls have said they are going, because if it is off, it is off. Anyone can report one, and GateShare can take one down.

If sellers do say they are going, they are listed under the pin exactly as at any market, and the pin starts carrying the count. A car boot sale that attracts three stalls turns into an ordinary market with nothing to switch. Three a day is the most anybody can add.

A drop off, just you

1. In the same place, under Just me, meeting buyers somewhere, tap Set up a drop off.
2. Fill in where, then say how often: 📅 Just these days for a one off, or 🔁 Every week if you are there the same days every week. The rest of this list is the one off; the regular one is just below.
3. Pick the days you will be there and the times you are there from and until.
4. Same hours every day is ticked to start with, so one pair of times covers every day. Untick it to give one day its own hours.
5. Tap ➕ Another day for each extra day, up to seven. Staying at a relative's for the week? Add the days you will actually be selling and leave out the day you are having off. Tap ✕ beside a day to take it out again.
6. If it is somebody else's place, ask them first, and tick I am allowed to be here. A drop off is public: anybody can read where it is, signed in or not, and its pin sits exactly where you put it for as long as the drop off is up. The road is usually enough without the street number. A public car park or verge can have its own rules too, so it is worth a quick word with the council or the owner. GateShare keeps your answer with the date and does not check it: that part stays with you.
7. Give both times for every day. That is how GateShare knows when to take you off the map, and a day with no times cannot be read by the clock at all.
8. If you only want orders placed beforehand, tick Pre orders only. Buyers are asked to order before they come. It is a sign, not a lock: GateShare cannot stop somebody turning up, so take what you can carry.
9. Tap 📍 Find the place on the map and put the pin where you'll be.
10. Press Save settings.

A temporary stall, at a gate that is not your usual one

House sitting at your mum's for a fortnight, a week at the bach, a season at a relative's orchard. Your stall moves there and comes back by itself.

1. In the same place, tap Set up a temporary stall. This is not a drop off, and the difference is the pin: a drop off is shown exactly, because people have to find your car in a car park, and this one is blurred to a rough area, because it is a gate at somebody's house.
2. Fill in which area. That part is public, so give a town or a district and no street or number.
3. Fill in the address, and how buyers will find the gate once they are in the road. Both are private. They go to a buyer whose order is confirmed, and they go again when that order finishes, exactly as your own gate's address does. A photo of the gate saves a lot of messages and is just as private.
4. Pick the days you will be selling and the hours, up to seven days at a time. Leave out any day you are not selling, so a Monday to Friday stay with the Wednesday off is four days, not five.
5. I will not be at my usual gate while this is on is ticked to start with. That takes your own pin off the map for the stay and brings buyers here instead, and it comes back by itself at the end. Untick it only if somebody really is at your own gate as well, and buyers will then be asked at checkout which of the two they are coming to.
6. If it is somebody else's place, ask them first, and tick I am allowed to be here. This matters more here than anywhere else on GateShare, because it is usually a home and usually not yours. GateShare keeps your answer with the date and does not check it: that part stays with you.
7. Tap 📍 Find the address on the map and put the marker on the gate. The marker you see is the real spot so you can get it right; the pin buyers see is moved up to about 500 metres on purpose, the same as your own gate's.
8. Press Save settings.

A regular drop off, the same days every week

If you are at the same spot every week, say so once instead of adding dates over and over. Tap 🔁 Every week, tap the days of the week you are there, and give the times you are there from and until. One pair of times covers the whole pattern, because a regular slot is the same every time.

1. Buyers see the pattern in words, for example Every Monday and Thursday, 8am to 9am, and underneath it whether you are there right now. They are never shown dates.
2. Your pin stays on the map the whole time, so locals learn that you come. It never says you are there when you are not.
3. It runs for a month at a time. A week before it ends, and again the day before, GateShare emails you and rings your bell. One tap on 🔁 Extend for another month keeps it going, and saving the form gives it another month too.
4. If you do nothing it comes off the map the morning after it ends. Nothing else changes: your stall and your listings stay exactly as they are, and you can set it up again whenever you like.
5. Pre orders only works the same way on a regular drop off as on a one off.

You'll hear about it three ways:

• an email (check it isn't landing in your junk folder)
• a notification on the 🔔 bell at the top of GateShare
• a pop up on your phone, if you use the phone app and notifications are on

Want to see one first? In Selling, the Getting started list has a 🔔 Send me a test button. It sends you exactly what an order sends.

In 📦 Orders you can choose whether you check each order before it goes ahead, and how soon buyers should collect. Once an order is confirmed, the buyer gets your address and your "how to find us" notes. Nobody else does.

Your exact address is never shown on the map. The pin buyers see is moved up to about 500 metres from your house, in a random direction, on purpose. So it will look a bit off. That's the point.

Your real address and directions go only to a buyer whose order is confirmed.

GateShare doesn't do couriers or shipping. But plenty of sellers drop things off, or meet buyers in town.

To tell buyers, open 📍 Where buyers collect and add a drop offs note, for example "in town Tuesdays and Fridays". Then sort the details with each buyer in the app's messages.

Season over, or going away? Open ⏸️ Pause my stall. It takes your stall off the map. Nothing is lost, and one tap brings it back.

Tap Sign in or join in the menu, then put in your email address and password.

• Forgot your password? Tap Forgot your password? under the sign in box. We email you a link to set a new one. It works for 30 minutes, so use it straight away, and check your junk folder.
• Your email must be confirmed first. When you join we send a six digit code. If it's gone missing, sign in and tap Send it again. Only the code in the newest email works.
• New phone? Just sign in again. Everything lives on your account, not on the phone.

Buying on GateShare is always free. The plans are for selling, and GateShare takes no commission on anything you sell, on any plan.

• Free: one priced item at a time, one photo on it, cash at the gate. Free, koha and swap items are unlimited and never count.
• Stallholder: up to 10 priced items, up to 5 photos on each, card payments in the app, and your sales figures.
• In Trade: everything in Stallholder, with no limit on items. For anyone selling regularly for profit.
• Fundraiser: schools, kura, preschools, clubs and community groups get everything, free, with no end date. Ask us and we'll set it up.

Your plan is shown at the top of Account & billing. If you ever move to a smaller plan, nothing is deleted.

Flyers: the menu has 📣 Spread the word, with posters and flyers to print for a notice board, a school newsletter or the dairy window.

Haul of the Week: been round the roadside stalls? Menu, 🏆 Send us your haul. One each week wins a prize.

Tap 🛟 Help in the app menu, or email hello@gateshare.co.nz. A real person reads every message. A screenshot of what you can see helps us help you fastest.

There's more in the questions and answers.