01 · Delivery
It mostly benefits the big stores.
They have the volume to organise it. Independent shops rarely do.
Town-centre shops · delivery between neighbours
The town centre, delivered by its neighbours.
Tipper lets neighbourhood shops offer home delivery. A neighbour who already passes through the centre brings your purchases home on the way back, and shares the cost of their trip.
Together with local authorities and their shopkeepers, to keep the heart of town alive.
Already passing through the centre? Become a Tipper →
Town-centre shops → your door
A trip already planned+ a neighbour’s shopping, dropped off on the way back.
- Supermarket
- Bakery
- Greengrocer
- Cheesemonger
- Butcher
- Wine merchant
- Delicatessen
- Pharmacy
- Dry cleaner
- Bookshop
- Florist
- and yours
The observation
A town-centre shop doesn’t have the scale of a hypermarket.
Big retailers organise their own home delivery. For a bakery, a greengrocer or a bookshop, a professional delivery service weighs too heavily on a neighbourhood basket. Customers who cannot get out end up ordering elsewhere.
02 · The obstacle
A dedicated fleet is a fixed cost.
Too heavy for a few orders a day and neighbourhood-sized baskets.
03 · The obvious
Every day, neighbours walk past the shop.
On the way to work, school or the market. Their trip can help someone out.
Our model
A virtuous circle, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
Residents want to keep their local shops. Shops lack the size to afford a delivery service of their own. Tipper links the two: neighbours who already pass through the centre bring back other people’s purchases, and share the cost of their trip.
Every new shop, every new neighbour makes the service closer and more accessible for everyone.
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The town
The local authority commits
Together with the shopkeepers’ association, it launches Tipper in its town centre.
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The shops
They offer delivery
Baker, greengrocer, bookseller: home delivery, with no fleet to manage.
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The residents
They buy local
They order from their own shopkeepers rather than online, far from here.
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The neighbours
They lend a hand
On a trip they are already making, they bring the purchases back and share their costs.
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The neighbourhood
It grows stronger
More local purchases, more neighbours on the road: a shared cost that stays low.
And the circle starts again
Who it’s for
Three neighbours, one neighbourhood.
Merchants
Offer home delivery.
In store, by phone or online: you prepare the order, a neighbour passing by collects it and drops it off at your customer’s door. No vehicle or fleet to manage.
Offer Tipper →Residents
Buy local, without going out.
Order from your usual shopkeepers and have your purchases brought over by a neighbour. Handy when you finish late, don’t drive or can’t carry heavy bags.
Ask my shopkeeper for Tipper →Tippers
Already passing through the centre?
Bring a neighbour’s purchases back on a trip you are making anyway, and share your travel costs. You choose freely when to lend a hand.
Become a Tipper →The app is coming
Be told when it launches
Join the waitlist and be among the first Tippers in your neighbourhood.
Why it’s affordable
The fair price of a trip already made.
Tipper doesn’t put another vehicle on the road: it builds on trips that happen anyway. That is what brings home delivery within reach of the smallest shop in the centre.
A trip that already exists
The neighbour is travelling for themselves; a neighbour’s purchases are added to it, with no needless detour.
Shared costs
The Tipper shares the cost of their trip and keeps part of it to their own charge: a cost in proportion to a neighbourhood basket.
A lean platform
Matching, tracking and support are run by our AI: low fixed costs that don’t weigh on the shop.
Pooled by neighbourhood
The more shops and neighbours there are, the more trips cross, and the lower the shared cost stays.
Local authorities
Alongside towns, for the heart of town.
We team up with local authorities and their shopkeepers’ associations to launch Tipper neighbourhood by neighbourhood. The town carries the ambition, shopkeepers offer delivery, residents make the service live.
Every shop
Home delivery open to every shop in the centre, whatever its size.
A joint launch
With elected officials, the town-centre manager and the shopkeepers’ association.
Mobilised residents
The service relies on residents’ own trips, not on extra vehicles.
A shared review
A regular check-in on how the service is doing, to steer the revitalisation.
Your neighbourhood already has its shops.
It has its neighbours too.
Tipper is a platform connecting private individuals, within the framework of cotransportage (art. L.3232-1 of the French Transport Code). Tippers act privately and occasionally, on trips they are already making; the sums exchanged are a sharing of costs, within a limit of €3,000 a year that Tipper has set itself. Depending on your situation, these sums may need to be declared: more information on our Legal framework page.