Eight things that change, and nothing that does not
No projections and no promises about traffic. Each line is something the storefront does the day it goes live.
You are the manager, the person behind the counter and the bookkeeper. There is no hour spare for another profile to keep updated.
We build the storefront for you. You tell us about the business once — we write it, photograph it, put the hours in and keep it live. There is nothing you have to log into weekly.
One form, a few minutes. Live the same day.You post on Facebook, it is gone down the feed by the next morning, and you start again.
A storefront does not move. It is found whenever somebody searches your trade in your town — not when an algorithm decides to show it.
No posting schedule. No feed to fight.The phone rings all day with people asking one thing: are you open right now?
Your own opening hours drive a live open or closed badge on your page. The customer sees the answer before they pick up the phone.
Answered before it is asked.A foreign chain sits above you in every search because it has a marketing budget you will never have.
Here you are placed by town and by trade, not by who spent the most. In your own town you sit alongside the chains, not underneath them.
Placement is not auctioned.Half your competition does not declare the work, does not pay the VAT, and undercuts you on every quote.
The blue tick is given by a person who has checked you are a real, registered, local business. It is the one mark a cash-in-hand operation cannot get.
Checked by a human, not a form.Nobody wants to cross the island in that traffic any more, and you are not on the road they take.
You appear on your own town's page and in searches for it. Somebody in St Paul's Bay looking for your trade finds the one in St Paul's Bay.
34 businesses, listed by town.Every tool wants a subscription or a slice of the sale, and none of them shows you what it brought back.
A flat €99 a year and nothing else. We do not process your sale, so we cannot take a percentage of it — the customer pays you, the way they always did.
€0.27 a day · 0% commission · no per-lead feeAugust pays the bills. It is January that decides whether you are still here next year.
The people searching here are the ones who live here — residents and expats looking for their own town, in the months when the tourists have gone.
Built for the off-season, not the cruise ships.
What we do not do: we do not process your sale, we do not take a percentage, and we do not sell your customers' details to anyone. The customer pays you, directly, the way they always did.
This is what your customers would see
Pick your trade and your town. Nothing is saved and nothing is sent — this is just the page that would carry your name.
A preview. Your real storefront carries your own photos, hours and offerings.
A post disappears. A storefront stays.
A Facebook post or a free directory
- Gone down the feed in a day
- No hours, so people ring to ask if you are open
- Nobody can tell if the listing is still real
- Impossible to search by town or trade
- Delivery apps take a slice of every order
Your MtLocalGoodies storefront
- Always on — found whenever somebody searches
- Live open / closed status from your own hours
- A blue tick that says we checked you
- Listed by town, trade and island
- Not one cent of your sale passes through us
How many customers pay for a year?
A Verified Storefront is €99 a year — €0.27 a day. Move the slider to what a typical customer spends with you, and this tells you how many of them the whole year has to bring in before you are ahead. No projections, no promises about traffic — just the arithmetic.
Roughly one every 3 months. Everything after that is yours — we take no commission.
See what is includedWhat it costs. No commission, ever.
The delivery apps take a slice of every order. We do not touch your sales at all — you pay a membership, and you keep every cent your customers pay you. Start free if you want to see how it feels first.
Free Listing
Your business in the directory, findable by town and by trade.
- Your business in the directory
- Name, trade, town and contact
- Found in search and on your town page
- One photo
Verified Storefront
A full storefront with the blue tick. We never take a cut of your sale.
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Blue verified tick — we check you are real
- Full storefront: hours, offerings, gallery, your story
- Live open / closed status from your own hours
- Direct WhatsApp and call buttons
- Priority placement in your town
- We never take a cut of your sale
Founding Member
Be first in your town. Your founding rate holds for as long as you list.
- Everything in Verified Storefront
- Founder badge on your storefront
- Founding rate held for as long as you list
- Featured when your town launches
- We build your storefront for you
Spotlight
For the business that wants the top spot in its trade.
- Everything in Verified Storefront
- Hand-placed at the top of your trade and your town page
- A slot on the MtLocalGoodies homepage
- A short video about your business, filmed by us and posted to our YouTube, TikTok and Facebook
- One social post about your business every month
- Always marked as promoted, so customers know
Optional extras
On top of a paid membership, only if you want them. No bundles, no lock-in — add or drop them whenever you like.
Pay once
One payment, and the work is yours to keep.
Pay monthly
Charged every month while it is switched on. Stop it whenever.
Prefer to see it before you read it? We put short videos of Maltese and Gozitan businesses, and walkthroughs of how the memberships actually work, on our YouTube channel.
All prices are in euro and exclude VAT where applicable; your invoice shows the final amount. No setup fees. Cancel any time to stop future renewals — your storefront stays live until the end of the period you have paid for. Every paid storefront is checked by a person before the blue tick appears, so the tick always means a real, local business.
Live in a day
Tell us about your business
A short form — what you do, where you are, how to reach you. A few minutes.
Your free listing publishes
Straight away, findable by town and trade. No queue, no waiting for us.
We check you and build the storefront
If you go verified, a person confirms you are a real local business and we build the full storefront for you — photos, hours, the lot.
What owners ask us first
What does it cost, and do you take a commission?
A Verified Storefront is €99 a year, or €12 a month, and we take nothing from your sales — no commission, no fee per lead, no fee per customer. We never process your money, so there is no transaction for us to take a slice of: the customer pays you directly, exactly as they do now. A basic listing is free. The first 100 businesses to join pay €59 a year and keep that rate for as long as they stay listed.
How much work is this for me? I have not got the time.
Close to none — we build the storefront for you. You fill in one short form about your business, and we write the page, set up your opening hours and put your contact details in. There is nothing to log into every week and no posts to keep making. A free listing publishes straight away; a verified storefront is usually live the same day once a person has checked you.
How is this different from just having a Facebook page?
A post is gone down the feed by tomorrow; a storefront stays put and is found by search. Somebody looking for your trade in your town finds you whether or not you posted this week, because you are listed by town and by trade rather than shown by an algorithm. Your page also carries a live open or closed badge driven by your own hours, so people stop ringing to ask.
Am I tied in? What happens if I want to stop?
You can cancel at any time and there is no minimum term. Cancelling stops future renewals; your storefront stays live until the end of the period you have already paid for. There is no setup fee and no exit fee, and we do not hold your content hostage — it was your business's information before it was on our page.
How do you check that a business is real?
A person checks it, not a form. Before the blue tick appears, somebody confirms that the business is real, is trading, and is genuinely based in Malta or Gozo. That is the point of the tick: it is a mark that an undeclared, cash-in-hand operation cannot get, which is what makes it worth something to the businesses that do things properly.
Do you sell my customers' details, or get between me and them?
No to both. Customers contact you directly by WhatsApp or phone from your page — the enquiry goes to you, not through us, and we do not sell or pass on customer details to anyone. We are a place where people find you. What happens after they find you is between you and them.
Is anybody actually on this site yet?
As of 2026-08-06, 34 businesses across 24 towns in Malta and Gozo. That is a real number and deliberately not a rounded-up one — we would rather tell you we are early than pretend to a scale we have not got. It is also why the founding rate exists: the businesses joining now are the ones carrying the risk of being first in their town.
Catalogue last updated 6 August 2026 · 34 businesses across 24 towns in Malta and Gozo
Be the first in your town
The first businesses in each town join as founding members — a lower rate held for as long as you list, a founder badge, and pride of place when we launch your town. There are 34 businesses on the map so far, and most towns on both islands are still open.