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Open your store on AkongNe.

AkongNe is the Diaspora Commerce OS: a ready-made, branded storefront plus a full back office for almost any business, all on one shared marketplace where stores discover and lift each other. From create-store to your first sale to automated customer messages, in ten clear steps. Each one takes minutes, and you can have your branded storefront live the same day.

This guide walks a store owner from first sign-up to a live, automated storefront on the marketplace. Everything is editable later and nothing is hardcoded, so start rough and refine as you go.

1

Create your store and pick a template

Sign up and create your branded storefront. Add your store name, logo, and colours, this white-labels your whole storefront so it feels like yours, not a template. Then choose the vertical template that matches your trade. A store can run more than one, and switch any time.

  • Retail goods and wholesale or reseller catalogs.
  • Food for order-ahead pickup.
  • Full-service restaurants and bars: menu, dine-in tables, kitchen display, PIN-verified reservations, and open bar tabs.
  • Beauty and salon bookings.
  • Fashion and tailoring with custom commissions.
  • Auto care with work orders and inspections.
  • Freight and cargo with three-party shipments, container and sailing tracking, and door-to-door status.
  • Real estate: a full property manager (units, leases, rent invoices, maintenance, owner reports) plus public stays.
  • Training with courses, enrollments, and attendance.
  • Photography with proofing galleries and packages.
2

Name your AI assistant

AkongNe runs a two-tier advanced AI. The marketplace assistant helps shoppers across the whole market and points new shoppers to your store. On top of that, give your store its own per-store assistant, named after you, and train it on your products and your voice so it answers shoppers like the shop itself.

Tip: you can edit and extend your assistant's knowledge any time as you add products and answer common questions.
3

Add your products, services, and prices

List your items, dishes, services, or listings with photos, descriptions, and prices. Set your stock, your pickup options, and your delivery windows, with distance-based delivery or pickup. For wholesale, set your bulk pricing. Your catalog is what shoppers browse on your storefront and across the marketplace.

  • Add as many or as few items as you like.
  • Update prices, menus, and stock any time, nothing is hardcoded.
4

Set up payments

Turn on the ways your customers actually pay: CashApp, Zelle, or cash. Choose pay-before for online orders or pay-on-arrival with a PIN for pickup and dine-in, whichever fits your store.

5

Print your QR poster

Download your store's printable QR poster and put it on the counter, the window, and your flyers. A walk-in scans it and lands straight on your storefront, so foot traffic becomes online orders.

Tip: every receipt is branded with your store name too, so walk-ins and online buyers meet the same brand.
6

Run your day: orders, tables, jobs, shipments

Customers order online and watch the status. When an order is ready, they collect it with a pickup PIN, so the right order goes to the right person. Each template runs its own day from the same back office: restaurants and bars get a kitchen display, dine-in tables, open bar tabs, and PIN-verified reservations; auto care runs work orders and inspections; tailoring tracks custom commissions; cargo moves three-party shipments with container, sailing, and door-to-door status. Chat with customers in the app about an order, a price, a booking, or a pickup, without a separate inbox.

7

List on Wuna Market

Beyond your storefront, list items on the Wuna Market community marketplace. Sell at a fixed price, take best offers, or run a live auction with proxy max-bids and anti-snipe. Payment is held in escrow and released when the item is delivered, so both sides trade with confidence. As you sell and deliver, you climb the trust ladder: listed, then verified, then trusted.

8

Manage property end to end

If you run real estate, the property template is a full manager: units, leases, rent invoices, maintenance, and owner reports, plus public stays for short-term rentals. Open any listing and let the advanced AI underwrite it in one tap: estimated mortgage, cap rate, and cash-on-cash return. Buyers and investors see the numbers up front, then request a tour, make an offer, or apply, all from the same listing.

9

Automate with the workflow engine

Set up automation rules so the marketplace does the talking. Any event, a new order, an order ready for pickup, a bid, an outbid, or a new inquiry, can each fire an owner-configurable message or workflow you set up once. Reach customers automatically, in the app, instead of typing the same update all day. Every rule is yours to edit, nothing is hardcoded.

10

Scale: branches, fair pay, and shared growth

Run more than one location? Manage each branch separately, then see them consolidated in one view. The built-in business intelligence names your cash cow, explains why one branch outperforms another, and tells you what to fix. Pay your team fairly too: geofenced clock-in counts real hours, and verified hours roll straight into payroll. As more stores join, shoppers who come for one business discover yours, and yours sends them on to others. Watch it all from one place, in English, French, Pidgin, or Spanish, on any phone. The market grows because the stores grow together.