Pieleaf

Pieleaf is not a marketplace. There is one seller, and it is Pieleaf itself. The difference sounds small and changes everything: a platform with many sellers spends most of its effort administering them, verifying their listings, paying them out, adjudicating between them. Here there is one organisation behind the shop, so the work that remains is selling and delivering.

Alongside the shop there is a second face that runs farm operations: expenses, income and workers’ wages at the level of the farm. The two live on one server and are never seen together. A buyer cannot see the farm side, even holding a valid token, because the separation is enforced inside the database rather than by a check in the code.

You do not need an account to buy

A guest and a signed-in buyer share the same code path, and the only difference is whether a buyer’s name is stamped on the order. This is not a convenience bolted on afterwards. The reference data the shop reads, the towns, the produce and the payment processors, is readable without a session, and the order-placing path is built on the same footing, so your identity is data on the order rather than a precondition for buying.

Delivery is to an agency, not to your door

An order does not come to your door. It goes to a collection agency you choose in your own town, and you pick it up there. This is not a limitation so much as how it works: in a great many places an agency known by name is a more reliable destination than any street address. Each town carries its own fee, held in the reference data separately from the price of the goods, so knowing where you will collect tells you what you will pay, before you pay it.

Where an order went is written on the order

A saved destination is a town, an agency and contact details, made as a convenience for composing an order. It is not the record of where the order went. When the order is placed, a copy of the destination is taken and kept on the order itself. So editing that saved destination months later, or deleting it, does not change where past orders went. It looks like a fine distinction, but it is what separates a record that says where somebody had goods sent from one that says where they live now.

Paying in a currency with no cents

Pieleaf builds no payment integrations of its own. The shared payment seam owns the mobile-money and card rails, and every provider notification arrives at that one place. What Pieleaf does is hand the amount across accurately. Prices live in the database as exact decimal numbers, and when they cross to the seam they are converted by a function that knows how many places each currency carries. That care is needed because the currency Pieleaf sells in has no minor unit: multiplying by a hundred, which is right for many currencies, makes every price here a hundred times too large.

Who it is for

Buyers who want produce with a known source, and bulk buyers who need reliable supply.

Visit Pieleaf: www.pieleaf.com