Marketplace + business suite

Homemade & homegrown,
made in Alaska.

Hearth replaces the "order through Messenger and hope" workflow that cottage bakers, meal-prep cooks, caterers and small farms live with. Buyers get a trustworthy local marketplace. Sellers get a storefront and the entire back office, in one place, on any phone.

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BlazorStripe ConnectSignalR.NET 10Mobile-first

1,000+Automated tests, green

2Surfaces: marketplace and back office

12Seller dashboard widgets

0Facebook threads to dig through

The marketplace

Public storefronts for bakers, cooks, caterers, farms, crafters and producers. Discover by category or on the map, order for pickup or delivery, pay securely, leave a review.

Storefronts and menus with photos, options and add-ons, availability windows and public event listings.
Per-seller cart, pickup or delivery with seller-defined delivery zones and fees, and a date and time for when you need it.
Stripe Connect payments with destination charges, refunds, and webhook-driven order state.
Custom order inquiries, no account needed. Photos, reference links, event theme, a quote back from the seller.
Messaging, reviews and real-time notifications between buyer and seller.
Gift cards and promo codes redeemable at checkout or at the register.

The business suite

Everything a cottage-food business runs on a spreadsheet and a shoebox today, in one seller dashboard.

Custom orders with a line-item builder (multi-tier cakes included), QR-code intake forms, quotes that can be revised and re-sent, and conversion to a real order.
Recipes and pricing calculator that turns ingredient cost into a suggested price, plus inventory with purchases, usage, waste and low-stock alerts.
Point of sale for markets: option picker, split payments, made-to-order prep queue, customer capture.
Calendar and events: order due dates and prep days sync automatically; market events track inventory used, hours, revenue and vendor fees.
Financials with income and expense categories, mileage trips, reports, and off-platform payments logged beside Stripe.
Customers, punch cards, gift cards, storefront announcements, document storage for permits and insurance, and finished-order photo albums.

VenmoZellePayPalCash AppSquareApple PayCash

Built for Alaska

The rules, in plain language

Cottage-food and farm-direct sales have real rules about what you can sell, where, and how it has to be labeled. Hearth ships with a guide section written for people, not lawyers, and asks sellers to acknowledge it before they publish.

Cottage food lawWhat you can and cannot sell, sales limits, where you can sell, labeling requirements, permits and registration, food-safety basics.

Farm directProduce safety, eggs and poultry, honey, labeling, permits, and how farm-direct differs from cottage food.

Help centerGetting started, creating an account, buying on Hearth, selling on Hearth, the seller tools, and the questions everyone asks.

Trust

Verified end to end

A marketplace that moves money has to be boring in all the right places.

1,000+ automated tests across domain, application and integration layers, the integration suite running against a real database with migrations.
Browser-verified with Playwright: browsing, checkout, anonymous intake, the whole seller back office, onboarding, admin, and live notifications.
Resource authorization on every seller-owned record, row versions on orders and payments, soft delete never applied to money.
Graceful without keys. Stripe, Facebook and Microsoft sign-in switch on when credentials are present; nothing breaks when they are not.

Platform: .NET 10, Blazor Interactive Server, mobile-first responsive UI. No native apps needed.
Data: Entity Framework Core on SQL Server, time-ordered GUID keys, audit interceptors, central package management.
Payments: Stripe Connect Express with application fees and webhooks. Simulated mode for exercising the app with no money.
Media: ImageSharp processing, public and private storage, contextual placeholders and a hand-drawn icon set.
Maps: Leaflet with an offline ZIP and city lookup for delivery pins.

Bring Hearth to your market.

Whether you run a farmers market, a cottage-food association, or a bakery with a waiting list, we would like to hear about it. Hearth can also be adapted to other regions and rule sets.

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