Mercado
Street food feels closer when the whole market moves live.
Mercado is a mobile marketplace where customers discover nearby street food vendors in real time, place orders in the app, and pick up directly from the vendor. Vendors use Mercado to publish menus, go live, accept orders, and receive payouts to their connected bank accounts.
Business facts
Business model
Mercado is a software marketplace for street food discovery, ordering, and vendor tools.
What Mercado sells
Marketplace access, ordering software, payment coordination, and vendor visibility tools.
How vendors get paid
Vendors connect a bank account and receive deposits through Stripe after customer payments are processed.
Support
Questions about Mercado, vendor onboarding, or payments can be sent to support@mercadohq.com.
For customers
Discover what is live nearby
Browse nearby street food vendors, view menus, follow favorites, and place orders inside the Mercado app.
For vendors
Go live and sell in real time
Vendors create profiles, upload menu items, go live when serving, and manage order status from the app.
For payments
Mercado handles checkout and payout routing
Customer payments are processed in Mercado and vendor payouts are routed to connected bank accounts through Stripe.
How customers use Mercado
Open Mercado to browse live street food vendors nearby.
View menus, stories, and vendor details before ordering.
Pay in the app and pick up directly from the vendor.
How vendors use Mercado
Create a vendor account, add a business profile, and upload menu items.
Connect a bank account for card payouts and complete Stripe verification if required.
Go live, accept orders, and receive deposits on the payout schedule.
How money moves
Mercado processes customer payments and coordinates vendor payouts.
Mercado uses Stripe to process transactions and route vendor funds to connected bank accounts. Vendors may be asked by Stripe for identity or tax verification information as part of onboarding.
Customer checkout
A customer pays for an order inside Mercado.
Mercado processing
Mercado processes the payment and records the order details.
Automatic split
Mercado keeps the service fee and routes the remaining amount to the vendor payout account.
Bank deposit
Stripe deposits the vendor funds to the connected bank account on the payout schedule.