Small farms, shops, trades and makers shouldn't have to fight each other for scraps while the biggest buyers set the terms. 5PM Cooperative is a member-owned network where independent businesses share the back office, sell together, and back each other up, while each one keeps its own name, customers and prices.
Prepaid orders, appointments and quotes, without building and maintaining your own website.
Customers pay into protected escrow and you're paid when the job is done. No card processor fees, and nobody in the middle holding your money.
Booked solid? The job goes to another member instead of being lost, and you get credit for sending it.
Group buying, shared equipment, and shared labor when someone is swamped. Better insurance rates through group purchasing.
When someone is sick or struggling, members can step in with shared labor and voluntary support, decided case by case.
Only real customers who finished a real job can leave a review. No fake ones, in either direction.
If your business serves customers, ask. Independent pros and workers who want steady, fairly paid work are welcome too.
Roles that take real time are paid through the members' budget, not done for free.
The legal structure is being set up and the platform is being designed. Nothing is final until the founding members vote on it.
Until qualified people fill a role, the function that depends on it stays switched off. Founder control is temporary and hands over to elected members.
Join now and you help shape it.
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The platform is designed in the open. The specification, covering the non-custodial escrow, the transaction engine and governance, is public on GitHub. Read it, challenge it, build against it. Test networks only.
Open specification on GitHub