Castiron was acquired in November 2024 and wound down; its planned successor, Nourysh, has no live site as of October 2026. If Castiron left you taking orders over Instagram DMs again, Order Local does the same job — a branded ordering page, pickup windows, and payment at checkout — with 0% commission, no customer surcharge, and a $0 fee in months under $250 in sales.
Castiron details reflect our research as of October 2026
| Feature | Order Local | Castiron |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Live, independent, and built by a single founder who answers the support inbox. | Closed. Acquired by T.D. Jakes Enterprises (announced November 21, 2024) to launch Nourysh; castiron.me no longer serves the product and nourysh.com redirects to a domain-for-sale page as of October 2026. |
| Commission per sale | 0%. We take no per-order cut, and customers pay no surcharge. | We are not quoting Castiron's old fee structure — no sourced figure still applies to anyone. |
| Monthly cost | One flat fee based on monthly sales: $0 under $250, then $9, $19, $39, capped at $79 for $5,000+. Every feature included. | No longer available at any price. |
| Who pays processing | You do — Stripe's standard 2.9% + $0.30 comes out of each payment, and the payment goes into your own Stripe account. Order Local never holds your funds. | Payments ran through Castiron. When it closed, so did the payment flow. |
| Local pickup scheduling | The center of the product: pickup locations with their own hours, pickup windows, cutoff times, per-item lead times, and per-day capacity limits. Vendor-run local drop-off windows with your own delivery fee are built in too. | Pickup and delivery options for custom orders, with per-order fulfillment dates. A good fit for cake and cookie bakers — the same job Order Local is built around. |
| In-person sales | Market Mode: pick the items on your phone, show a checkout QR code, and your customer pays on theirs by card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay (or Venmo, Cash App, or Zelle). No reader, no hardware. Booth sales share your catalog, customer list, and sales report with your preorders. | Not a feature. Castiron was preorders only; booth sales were collected by hand. |
| Payment options | Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Amazon Pay through your own Stripe account — or Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, and cash at pickup, paid to you directly and confirmed by you. | Card at checkout through the platform. |
| Custom orders and quotes | Special-order requests: a customer describes what they want, you send a quote, they pay a deposit at checkout and the balance later. Built in, no add-on. | Custom-order request forms were a core Castiron feature and a big reason bakers chose it. |
| Catalog limits | Unlimited items for every shop — no catalog limits at any level. | Not applicable — the catalogs are gone. |
| Setup time | One sitting: add your items, add a pickup spot with its hours, connect Stripe, share the link. | Your old shop cannot be exported. Expect to re-enter items from your own photos and notes. |
| Best-fit customer | A home baker, cake or cookie maker, or cottage food seller who wants their ordering page back — with the booth covered too. | The same baker, in 2023. |
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Castiron and Nourysh status reflects our own checks as of October 2026 (castiron.me no longer serves the product; nourysh.com redirects to a domain-for-sale page). We do not quote Castiron's historical pricing because no sourced figure is still relevant.
Beyond still existing, Order Local makes a few trades differently — mostly around whose money it is and where your sales happen.
Card payments go into your own Stripe account at Stripe's standard 2.9% + 30¢; Order Local never holds funds. If a platform disappears, that matters: your Stripe account, your customers, and your payouts are yours.
Your customer pays exactly the listed price. Order Local charges one flat monthly fee based on what you sold — $0 under $250, then $9, $19, $39, capped at $79 — never a percentage.
Market Mode turns your phone into the register: pick the items, show a checkout QR code, and the customer pays on their own phone by card, Venmo, Cash App, or Zelle. No reader, no hardware, and market-day sales land in the same shop as your preorders.
Pickup locations with their own hours, bookable pickup windows, cutoff times, per-item lead times in days, and per-day capacity caps so one oven never gets oversold. Vendor-run drop-off windows with your own delivery fee too.
Customers get SMS updates as you confirm, start, and finish their order — included in every monthly level, with an allowance that grows as you sell more.
If you fell back to Venmo requests after Castiron closed, you can keep taking them here — turn the methods on and the order, items, and pickup time are still recorded, with you confirming each payment.
Bakers did not pick Castiron by accident. Three things it got right are worth naming, because they are what you should hold any replacement to.
Request forms, quotes, and fulfillment dates for one-off cakes and cookie sets were the heart of it. Order Local has the same flow — special-order requests, quotes, deposits — but also serves growers, makers, florists, and food trucks, so its language is a little more general.
Castiron listed every shop on a public marketplace, which some bakers found a few customers through. Order Local gives you your own storefront at your own web address and does not run a marketplace; your customers find you through your own channels.
Castiron was free for the baker to start. So is Order Local: months under $250 in sales are $0, with unlimited items and no credit card.
There is no export to import — the site is gone. But a working shop is one sitting, not a weekend.
Pull photos and prices from your Instagram or your old order notes. Add modifiers for size, flavor, filling, or inscription — there are no catalog limits.
Name the spot and set its hours; the street address is optional, so you can list a meet-up point without publishing your home address. Add lead times and daily caps.
Enable special-order requests so custom cakes come in as quotes with a deposit, connect your own Stripe account (or Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, cash), then put your new link in your Instagram bio — the same place your Castiron link used to be.
Keep 100% of your sales — no commission, and your customers never pay a surcharge.
One simple fee based on what your shop sells each month. Flat fees starting at $9/mo once you're selling, and never a percentage of your sales.
| Monthly sales | Fee |
|---|---|
| Under $250 | Free |
| $250 – $750 | $9/mo |
| $750 – $2,000 | $19/mo |
| $2,000 – $5,000 | $39/mo |
| $5,000+ | $79/mo |
The counter resets every month — your first $250 is always free, and the fee never goes above $79 no matter how much you sell. Billed after the month ends, never before. Your customers never pay a surcharge. No contracts, cancel anytime. Order texts are included at every level — allowances are in the terms.
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