User Guide
How Parish Larder works — for communities, clubs & shoppers
Practical, step-by-step guides for every part of the platform. Run your parish, sports club, PTA, church, school or farmers’ market with branded community spaces, club shop, memberships and notifications — and shop the marketplace from British producers. Pick a module to see the features, then choose the guide for your role.
Communities
Run your group on Parish Larder.
White-labelled spaces for parishes, clubs, PTAs, churches, schools, charities and farmers' markets. Each community has its own URL, branding and choice of modules — Town Crier, What's on, Stories, Stalls, Members, Petitions and more. Run your club shop, sell memberships and notify members via email, push, SMS or WhatsApp.
- Customers
- Platform admins
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Shop
Browse, buy, deliver.
The marketplace itself — merchant directory, product pages, basket, checkout, order pipeline, deliveries and the merchant POS terminal.
- Customers
- Merchants
- Drivers
- Platform admins
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Classifieds
Buy, sell, swap locally.
Free-text listings for second-hand items, equipment, services and small ads. Posted by registered users, browsable by everyone.
- Customers
- Merchants
- Platform admins
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What's On
Events and tickets.
Local events, markets, courses and one-off happenings — with optional ticket sales, QR-coded tickets and at-the-door scanning.
- Customers
- Merchants
- Platform admins
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Town Crier
The community noticeboard.
Announcements, job vacancies, tradespeople, work requests and general posts. Anyone with an account can post.
- Customers
- Merchants
- Platform admins
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Foodprint
Local impact, measured.
The aggregate impact of every order on the platform — money kept local, food miles avoided, kg CO₂ saved, producers supported. Surfaces in four places: a public page, your personal account, the merchant stall dashboard, and the master admin view.
- Customers
- Merchants
- Platform admins
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Stories from the field
Short videos that drive sales.
TikTok-style vertical clips merchants post from the field — lambing, harvest, kitchen prep, market days. Tagged with products, sharable to TikTok / Instagram / Facebook / Nextdoor, and browsable in a vertical feed in the customer app.
- Customers
- Merchants
- Platform admins
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Find a Handyman
Hire a local tradesperson — escrowed + GPS-stamped.
A jobs board inside each community. Members post local jobs (a leaking tap, a fortnightly dog walk, a hedge to tame) and registered tradespeople in the same community quote, schedule visits, do the work and get paid through escrow. One-off or recurring (weekly / fortnightly). Either side can reschedule a visit; both must agree.
- Customers
- Merchants
- Platform admins
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Can’t find what you need?
Try the frequently asked questions, or get in touch via the contact page. If you spot anything in this guide that’s out of date, drop us a line and we’ll fix it.