Where your community
meets ours.
This isn’t another faceless company - we’re all-in from the beginning to help get your community certified and on our map to help increase economic activity through its independent businesses.
Communities
Certified Independents
Local xplorers!
Increased awareness for your community.
Get your community part of our one of a kind, best of the best marketplace made up of certified Independent businesses and the communities they call home.
xplore Pay: Powering local payments, empowering communities.
xplore Pay is a people-powered payment platform using secure, open-banking technology to lower transaction fees for independent businesses and keep data local. Plus, a percentage of every purchase goes into a community fund to support local needs—helping cities, towns and villages thrive with every transaction.
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A digital gift card for your community powered by
xplore Pay
Drive more money into your local economy with a branded and financially ring-fenced gift card for your town, city or region powered by a payment solution that works for everyone, businesses, customers, and the local community within which it’s used.
Digital gifting yearly growth
Prefer digital gifts
Increase in spending
Who we partner with.
xplore partners with community leaders and organisations who are passionate about helping their local community and local economy succeed.
Community leaders
Chambers of Commerce
High Street Programs
Economic Development Organisations
xplore pays back the community
community first.
independents only.
circular economy.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a community/neighbourhood?
A community is a group of independent businesses that give a city, town or village an identity that locals and visitors can connect to. A good example would be Bath.
A large City like Bristol is a community but will also have neighbourhoods that acts as another way for businesses to group under a geographical identity. As an examples Clifton and North Street are neighbourhoods within Bristol community.
How can I get my community certified on xplore?
To get certified on xplore you’ll need to fill out the enquiry form and provide your details along with an overview of your community so a member of the xplore certification team can get in touch to discuss further.
How do you choose a community to work with?
We only work with communities who meet our strict independent quality threshold. There is no other community like xplore in the world and we take huge pride in being the gatekeepers of it.
What is the high independent quality threshold?
First, we only work with communities who want to work with us. We don’t sell, we inform, and try to let our existing communities do the talking for us.
Second, there has to be an active and engaged community of independent business who are willing to work together on behalf of their community but also as part of xplore's community.
Third, communities must have a clear geographical identity that locals or visitors can connect to. This identity can be as a community or as a neighbourhood within a community.
xplore is the one-stop app for locals and visitors to live a more local and rewarding life
Let us introduce your community and its independent businesses to them.
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