COMING SOON!
GET NOTIFIED WHEN WE LAUNCH.
COMING SOON! GET NOTIFIED WHEN WE LAUNCH.
You want to barter. But you can’t find people to work with. It’s messy. It’s complicated…until now.
30 SECONDS OF
AWESOME
Get notified when we launch!
We’re launching really soon. We know you're excited about this! We are too!
To be notified when we launch, and to get an early invite, just fill out this simple form.
The Cool, New Web-App Features You Will Love
There are so many amazing features on the new web-app that we can’t possibly explain them all here, but here’s a quick run-down of what you can expect when you subscribe to the Barter It™ Web-App.
The Problem
Everyone wants to barter, but they can’t find people to connect with.
Barter is awesome, but for two people to complete a fair trade, each side has to want what the other person has, and here's the catch, at the same time and value!
It's called the 'Coincidence of Wants' and it makes it very hard to complete direct trades in your local community, let alone across the province, or the country.
What if there’s a solution?
A marketplace web-app that connects Canadians with a community of like-minded people so they can barter in an organized way.
Introducing Barter It™
A Few Simple Steps
Go to the Barter It™ web-app and follow the simple instructions to get started. You don’t need a business to barter, but if you do, that’s great too!
You’re joining an incredible community of barter-loving Canadians!
Step 1
Offer up your skills or stuff (like carpentry or eggs or dog-walking) and earn BITS™. BITS™ are simply points.
It's one for one.
1 BIT™ point equals 1 Canadian Dollar for valuation purposes.
Step 2
Step 2
Use your BITS™ (your points) to obtain goods and services with anyone else in the Barter It™ community. And the best part is, you'll meet lots of people just like you.
Now you can barter your carpentry, food, piano lessons or whatever you want. No money, just BITS™!
Step 3
Explained In 2 Minutes
Create Offers & Find Other Members
Upload your stuff or services onto the platform, and start connecting with people you want to barter with.
Immediately connect with people you want to barter with, get notifications, make deals.
Message other members one-on-one or talk to multiple people in a group chat!
Start Chatting & Making Deals
Use The Business Directory
We support freedom-loving businesses on and off the web-app. Our extensive search feature enables people to easily find your business and spend regular money with you, as well as BITS™.
Do Community Meet-Ups
This isn’t just an app. It’s about connecting with others right in your hometown, face-to-face. Organize meet-ups, BBQs, coffee dates, hikes, whatever you want.
It’s about finding your peeps and doing life together!
Even More Features You’ll Love
BE ANONYMOUS! Make your profile name anything you want...like 'freejenny' or 'likestofish'
Real-Time Ratings & Reviews - this is how the system will ‘stay honest’. Have good reviews? People will want to barter with you. Consistently attract bad reviews? It might be hard to barter with anyone.
BITS™ Gifts - instead of typical gift cards, you can send a BITS™ Gift to a friend for their birthday, holidays or for no reason at all…except that you can!
Invite-A-Friend - this is how your tribe is going to grow. Invite a friend to join the community and both of you will earn BITS™ Rewards! You will instantly gain a new person to barter with and you will both earn BITS™ that you can spend in the web-app with whoever you want!
Extensive Search Feature - to find people and businesses near you with all the products and services you could want with a simple search
Tag Your Favourites - like certain products, services or vacation rentals that you see? Tag them and they will pop up in your ‘Favourites’ folder
Groups - COMING SOON - create groups made up of people with similar interests. Like homesteading? Like to run? Love animals? Obsessed with politics? There will be groups for that. It’s a powerful way to connect with people you can do life with! NOTE: Did you know you can do group chats with multiple people right now in the Chat Feature? Awesome, eh?
A web-based app means instant changes in real time and more freedom of content
And much, much more!
BITS™ Gifts
Instead of giving typical gift cards, you can send a BITS™ Gift to a friend for their birthday, holidays or for no reason at all…except that you can!
Why Create Barter For People?
Founder & CEO, John Porter, chats with influencer Sarah Swain at ‘Kid Carson & Friends’ in Calgary, Alberta about Barter It™, BITS™, how it all started…and why Canadians want it.
Real-Life Solutions
(Warning! Grab a Kleenex!)
This isn't just a marketplace to offer up your skills or stuff and get what you want in return. It's so much more!
This is your tribe.
It's a community of people who are passionate about shopping local, freedom of choice, free speech, sharing with each other and working closely together to forge deep relationships, all while creating new pathways for the future we’ve always wanted.
The Leadership Team
Over 100 years combined experience in barter
-
John Porter
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
25 years experience in the Barter Payment Space growing BarterPay, a B2B barter system, into the largest exchange in Canada.
-
Debbi Porter
CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF STORYTELLER
Brand strategy, video production, graphic design, social media content creator. We gotta look good, right?!
-
Gavin Duncan
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
An operations machine with a passion for optimization and sleek systems that keep everything in order
-
Shawn Wise
FULL STACK DEVELOPER
Almost 20 years experience with close to 10 years building and managing our proprietary software
-
Andrej Litvinjenko
CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL LAW
Managing director and lead counsel at TAAG Law. Bringing over a decade of senior experience to our mission
-
Kayla Rulys
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Many years experience with graphic design, Kayla has an incredible eye for branding
JOIN THE MOVEMENT
JOIN THE MOVEMENT
Follow Us On Social!
@barter_it
