Chambers of Commerce
Your annual member coupon book, without the print run. Members get exposure, residents get savings, and you finally see which offers actually pulled traffic.
Live today in Watertown, SD, Madison, SD, and New Ulm, MN.• It all stays here •
Your community coupon book.
In everyone's pocket.
If your chamber raises money by selling a coupon book, LocalFork makes it digital. Your community still buys it. Local businesses still fill it. They still honor it in-store. But now it lives on every buyer's phone, redeems in seconds, and gives you the data you've never had.
One fundraiser. Whoever's running it.
Chambers call it the member book. Booster clubs call it the discount card. Churches call it the savings book. It's the same fundraiser, and LocalFork runs all of them.
Booster clubs & school teams
Bands, teams, PTOs. No cookie dough, no order forms, no delivery day, no cash for parents to count. Each student gets a share link and a QR code, and the leaderboard shows exactly who sold what.
Zero upfront cost. Your club keeps 85% of every sale.Churches, youth groups & nonprofits
A fundraiser your supporters genuinely want, because it pays them back all year at the businesses they already visit. Sell from a link you text, share, or put in the bulletin.
No inventory to buy, store, or eat the loss on.Main Street & downtown districts
Turn a shop-local campaign into something measurable. Run a district-wide book, or a themed one for a dining week or holiday stroll, and see the redemptions roll in live.
Run several themed books at once.Not on the list? If your group sells a coupon book, a discount card, or a savings book to raise money, LocalFork runs it. Tell us about your group.
Live on LocalFork
Real organizations. Real local businesses.
These are working storefronts, not mockups. Click any of them and browse the book their local businesses built.
Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce
Watertown, South Dakota
Browse their book →
Greater Madison Area Chamber of Commerce
Madison, South Dakota · “MadSavings”
Browse their book →
New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce
New Ulm, Minnesota
Browse their book →Want your group here? Request a demo.
The coupon book still works.
The paper doesn't have to.
Groups everywhere still sell a printed coupon book to raise money, and your community is happy to pay $30 for $5,000 in local savings. The model is proven. But the paper is starting to show its age. Printing costs eat the margin before you sell a copy, books sell out, mid-year fixes are impossible, and you never really know if anyone used the deals inside.
LocalFork keeps everything that works and removes everything that doesn't.
Four moving parts. Three minutes to grasp.
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Set up your storefront
Pick your web address (e.g.
yourgroup.localfork.vip), upload your logo, set your price. Live in ten minutes. -
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Line up your local businesses
Each business gets its own login and builds its own offers, or you bulk-import the whole list from a spreadsheet and do it for them. You approve with one click. Free for them, great local exposure.
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Your community buys the book
Standard $30, or whatever you set. Sell from a link your members text and share. Stripe handles checkout and the money lands in your bank account. LocalFork takes 15%, you keep the rest.
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Businesses redeem in seconds
Scan the shopper's rotating QR, type a six-digit code, or let them self-redeem off your printed store QR with nothing at the register. You see exactly which deals get used, when, and where.
Built for everyone who touches the book.
For your group
- Branded storefront on your own web address
- Approve business offers in one click
- Sell several themed books at the same time
- Credit the seller behind every sale
- Real-time redemption analytics
- Stripe payouts straight to your bank
- No printing, no reprints, no “sold out”
For your local businesses
- Free to take part, great exposure
- Build and edit their own offers year-round
- See which of their offers actually drive traffic
- Redeem with a scan, a code, or nothing at all
- Re-use last year's offers in one click
For your community
- The book lives on their phone, never forgotten
- Search by business or browse by category
- Save favorite deals and follow local businesses
- Buy extra copies and gift them
- Single-use, fraud-proof redemption
- Installs on iPhone and Android, no app store
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
- Seller credit — a personal share link and printable QR sign for every student, volunteer, or member business, plus a sales-by-seller leaderboard. Nobody handles cash.
- Concurrent themed books — sell a main book, a restaurant book, and a holiday book side by side, each with its own price and offers.
- Three ways to redeem — merchant scan, six-digit code, or self-redeem off your printed store QR with zero tech at the register.
- Single-use redemption — server-validated, screenshot-proof, can't be double-scanned.
- Gift a book — buy several copies, email them to recipients or hand out claim links yourself.
- Multiple copies per login — one household account can hold several copies of the same book.
- Bulk import — upload your business list and create businesses, logins, and starting offers in one pass.
- Branded home-screen app — your name and your icon on your community's phone, not ours.
- One-click rollover — clone this year's book into next year's with dates shifted and offers re-confirmed.
- Pause any offer — switch a live offer off and back on without deleting it or forcing re-approval.
- Stripe Checkout + Connect — you get paid automatically, minus a transparent 15%.
- Buyer-paid service fee — card processing comes off the buyer's total, not your share.
- Real-time analytics — redemptions, most-loved offers, and saved-to-redeemed conversion.
- Multi-tenant by design — one platform, every group gets its own branded web address.
- Installable PWA — works on any phone, no app store friction.
- All standard disclaimers built in — no legal copywriting required.
One number. That's the whole price.
15%of each book your community buys
- No setup fee
- No annual fee
- No cost to your local businesses
- No contract to get started
Your group keeps 85% of every sale, paid straight to your own bank account through Stripe. Card processing is covered by a small service fee the buyer pays at checkout, so your 85% arrives whole. We only earn when you do.
Founding rate. 15% is locked in for life for any organization that signs on or before October 1, 2026. It never expires and never steps up at renewal. Agreements signed after that date are written at our standard rate.
Frequently asked questions
What is LocalFork?
LocalFork is a software platform that lets any community group sell a digital coupon book as a fundraiser. Chambers of commerce, booster clubs, school teams, churches, PTOs, youth groups, downtown districts, and nonprofits all run the same fundraiser. Local businesses upload their own offers free of charge, supporters buy and redeem on their phones, and you get real redemption data for the first time.
What kinds of groups use it?
Any group that raises money by selling a coupon book, a discount card, or a savings book. Chambers run it as their annual member book. Booster clubs, teams, bands, and PTOs run it instead of cookie dough and wrapping paper, with per-seller tracking so every student gets credit. Churches, youth groups, and nonprofits run it as a community fundraiser. Downtown districts run it as a shop-local campaign. Same platform every time, just named for your group.
Who is already using it?
The Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce (Watertown, SD), the Greater Madison Area Chamber of Commerce (Madison, SD), whose book is called MadSavings, and the New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce (New Ulm, MN). All three storefronts are public, so go look around and browse what their local businesses built. We're also selecting five booster clubs for our launch group.
How is this better than cookie dough or wrapping paper?
No inventory, no order forms, no delivery day, and no envelopes of cash for a parent to reconcile. Sellers share a link or a QR code, supporters buy online, and the money lands in your account automatically. Your supporters get real savings at businesses they already visit instead of a product they didn't need, and you keep 85% instead of the 40% a product fundraiser typically nets.
How much does it cost?
LocalFork takes 15% of each book your community buys. No setup fee, no annual fee, no charge to your local businesses, no contract to get started. You keep 85% of every sale, paid straight to your own bank account. The 15% founding rate is locked in for life for anyone who signs on or before October 1, 2026.
Who pays the credit card fees?
The buyer does, through a small service fee shown as its own line at checkout. It's sized to cover card processing exactly, so your 85% arrives whole instead of being shaved down by processing costs.
Can we track who sold what?
Yes, and this is the piece booster clubs and fundraising teams ask about first. Every seller, whether that's a student, a volunteer, or a member business, gets a personal share link and a printable QR sign. Sales are attributed automatically and land on a sales-by-seller leaderboard, so you can disperse funds or reward top sellers without guessing. No seller ever touches money.
How is this different from a printed coupon book?
Same fundraiser model, no paper. You still sell the book to your community for around $30. Local businesses still contribute offers for free as great exposure. The difference: there's no print run to pay for before you've sold a copy, deals live on buyers' phones, they redeem at the register in seconds, and you can see exactly which ones get used. Offers can also be added, paused, or fixed mid-year, which is impossible on paper.
How do redemptions work?
Each business picks the mode that fits how they run their counter. Self-redeem (the default) needs nothing at the register, because the shopper scans your printed store QR, or types your short store code, right in their own phone. Merchant scan means staff scan the shopper's rotating QR with any smartphone. Code entry means the shopper reads a six-digit code and the cashier types it. All three are validated on the server and recorded in real time.
Can we sell more than one book at a time?
Yes. Run a main annual book, a restaurant book, and a holiday or event book all at once from the same storefront, each with its own price and its own set of offers. Shoppers can own several and the wallet keeps them straight.
Can someone buy a book as a gift?
Yes. A buyer can pick up several copies in one checkout and gift any of them. We'll email the recipient a claim link, or hand the buyer a link to give out themselves so a gift can wait for a birthday or Christmas morning. Your group earns its full share on every gifted copy.
Do local businesses need to be technical?
No. Each business logs in to its own dashboard, writes its offer description, picks a category, and submits for approval. It looks like filling out a form. And if a business would rather not touch anything, you can bulk-import your whole list from a spreadsheet and build their offer for them.
What about fraud, can someone reuse a deal?
No. Each buyer's deal QR is a unique signed token, the QR rotates every 90 seconds (so a screenshot becomes worthless), and the database enforces single-use redemption at the constraint level. A double-scan can't slip through, even under concurrent attempts.
What happens at the end of the year?
One click rolls this year's book into next year's: a new draft edition with every offer cloned and its dates shifted forward, re-entered for your businesses to re-confirm. Old books go dark on schedule, so last year's copy can't be used against this year's offers.
Can we keep selling printed books too?
Yes. Many groups run both during the transition year. A printable PDF of the current digital book is on the roadmap.
Who owns the data?
Your organization. LocalFork stores and processes data on your behalf, but the supporter relationships and redemption analytics belong to you.
How long does setup take?
From signup to a live storefront with the first offer: under an hour. Technical setup is about ten minutes. The rest is collecting offers from your local businesses, and bulk import plus emailed invites are built in to speed that up.
Ready to digitize your next coupon book?
We're booking demos for any group planning a coupon book fundraiser: chambers, booster clubs, schools, churches, downtown districts, and nonprofits. The earlier you start, the more polished your launch, and the founding rate closes October 1.
Or email mike@localfork.vip directly.