Vendorah
A marketplace where the money is safe before the work starts
Vendorah is a South African marketplace for merchants, makers and service providers. Every order is paid into escrow first — so buyers never send money into the dark, and sellers never get skipped on the bill.
Meet Vallery, your business ally
Vallery is Vendorah's AI-powered business operator — built to run the business through conversation instead of a dozen dashboards. Ask it to look something up, make a change, or explain how the business is doing, and it works through the same systems and permissions you would use yourself.
It is not a chatbot bolted onto the side of the platform — it is wired directly into the business, and it can only act through approved, permissioned actions.
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How Vallery stays in control
Read
Looks things up. Changes nothing, and runs instantly.
Write
Stages a change and shows you the exact diff before it happens — with one-tap undo afterwards.
Confirm
Irreversible or customer-facing actions. Staged the same way, but with no undo — you always press the button.
Try asking Vallery about…
Catalog
Products and services — list, search, price, restock and publish.
“What are my best selling products?”
“Add a new listing for handmade candles, R80, and use this photo”
“Take the winter scarf off the shop”
Watch the money move
Hover to pause. Tap any step to jump to it.
Buyer pays into escrow
The full amount leaves the buyer at checkout and lands in a secured escrow account. It is not in the seller's pocket, and it is no longer exposed to the buyer changing their mind.
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Why we built this
A carpenter finishes a custom build and the client goes quiet. A caterer feeds two hundred people and gets paid in pieces over three months. A consultant hands over the report and hears nothing back. On the other side of the same trade, a buyer is asked to EFT thousands to a stranger on the strength of a few photos.
Vendorah exists to take that risk off both sides of the table. We hold the funds from the moment an order is placed until the buyer confirms they got what they paid for. The seller knows the money is there before they start. The buyer knows it will not move until they say so. Neither has to trust a stranger — they only have to trust the process.
Our Community
Every store is vetted before it can trade. We check identity and address first.
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Home & Décor
One of the most-shopped categories. See what is trending right now.
Protection that cuts both ways
Escrow is not a buyer perk bolted onto a seller platform. It is one mechanism protecting both parties at once. Pick your side.
Never get skipped on the bill again
If you sell expensive products or high-value services, the real risk is not finding the customer — it is finishing the job and then chasing the payment for six weeks. On Vendorah the money is secured before you start.
- Payment is locked in escrow before you lift a finger
- Custom builds and long lead-times are funded upfront
- Service bookings are paid before the appointment, not after
- The confirmation code is your proof of delivery
- Released funds land in your wallet, withdrawable to your bank
- Buyers are account-verified — you know who you are dealing with
What Vendorah provides
Everything needed to run a real business online — not just a listing page.
Ways to sell
Not everything sells the same way. Each listing type unlocks its own tools — and all of them sit behind the same escrow protection.
Regular Products
Stocked items with live inventory, variants and instant checkout.
Custom Products
Made-to-spec work you quote and approve before it becomes an order.
Lead-Time Products
Made to order with a set production time, paid for upfront.
E-Books
Digital downloads with free sample pages and instant delivery.
Services & Bookings
Appointments you approve, with daily limits and a booking window.
Venues & Spaces
Rent out event spaces with an availability calendar.
Across every category
Every seller is vetted
Escrow protects the transaction, but trust starts before that. Before a store can trade on Vendorah, the person behind it submits identity documents and a verified physical address for review by our team.
Approved stores carry a verification status customers can see. Stores that break platform policy lose it.
- Identity document verification
- Verified physical business address
- Manual review by the Vendorah team
- Visible verification status on your storefront
- Reviews tied to real, completed orders
- Policy enforcement with real consequences