Agri-produce exchange · Zimbabwe
Turn a delivery into a receipt you can sell
Take your produce to a collection hub. It is weighed on the scale, graded on the spot, and becomes a warehouse receipt in your name — one you can sell, or borrow against.
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- Collection hubs
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- Tonnes of storage
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- With cold chain
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- Commodities accepted
What you can bring to a hub
The commodities the platform grades and issues receipts against today.
Soybeans
Oilseed legume, crushed for oil and stockfeed meal.
White maize
The staple. Milled for mealie-meal.
Yellow maize
Mostly stockfeed and industrial milling.
Wheat
Winter crop, milled for flour.
Beans
Sugar bean and cowpea, traded dry.
Sunflower
Oilseed, pressed for cooking oil.
Beef
Cattle and carcass beef.
Horticulture
Tomatoes, onions, greens, chillies, herbs.
From a booking to money in your wallet
Five steps, in the order they happen. Nothing here is a plan.
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Register
A phone number and a code by WhatsApp or SMS.
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Book a delivery
What, how much, which hub. You get a reference.
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Weighed at the gate
The scale reading is recorded against your reference.
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Graded and receipted
A grade, then a warehouse receipt, issued on its own.
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Sell it, get paid
A buyer accepts; the money reaches your wallet.
Where to deliver
Collection hubs accepting produce right now. No account needed to check.
Which one are you?
Three kinds of account, because three kinds of account exist.
Farmer or cooperative
Register a plot, book a delivery, and let the hub weigh and grade it. The warehouse receipt is issued from that grading on its own.
Register as a producerBuyer
Buy lots that a warehouse receipt stands behind, each carrying the grade an inspector recorded and the weight a scale recorded.
Register as a buyerHub or warehouse
Work the gate from a phone: find a delivery by its reference, record the scale, grade what arrived. Corrections are kept on the record.
Register as an operatorWhat it costs
Charged on the gross value of a settled trade and taken out of the seller's proceeds. Registering, booking a delivery and being graded cost nothing.
2.0–2.5%
Platform fee
What FreeTrader charges for running it
0.5–1.0%
Exchange fee
Clearing the trade
2.5%
Grain, all in
On a settled sale. Nothing before it
| Trade | Platform | Exchange | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grains, spot | 2.0% | 0.5% | 2.5% |
| Horticulture, spot | 2.5% | 1.0% | 3.5% |
| Livestock | 2.5% | 1.0% | 3.5% |
| Forward contract | 0.5% | 0.5% | 1.0% |
Not open yet, and priced for when they are: hard commodities at 0.15% all in, and cross-border via COMESA STR at 2.0%. Nothing on the platform can trade either today.
Built for a phone, on a bad connection
Most of the people this platform is for are standing in a field or at a hub gate, not sitting at a desk. That shapes what got built.
- A phone is the whole toolProducers and hub agents get a bottom tab bar, not a desktop menu — a thumb reaches the bottom of a screen more easily than a corner.
- Both weights are kept, alwaysWhat you declared and what the scale said are stored side by side. Payment is on the scale reading, and a correction to it is recorded with a reason, permanently.
- Escrow, not trustA buyer funds a wallet before a contract is agreed. Settlement debits them and credits you in the same movement, and the clearing account nets to zero.
Buying in volume? Tell us what you need
Millers, processors, wholesalers and institutional buyers. What you answer decides which corridors open next and which hubs get cold storage — so these are the questions, in the order they matter.
- Commodity and tonnes a month
- Where you take delivery
- The grade you need, and what happens when a load misses it
- Spot, or forward before harvest
- Payment terms today, and what you would prefer
- What would have to be true before you bought this way
Bring your first load to a hub
Register with a phone number. You will need an ID and a selfie before you can book a delivery — that is the verification the receipt rests on.
Free to register · Verification codes by WhatsApp or SMS · Fees only on a settled trade