Illustrative Local Dollars demo
Demo Town Dollar
See how a sponsor-funded shop-local program can establish reusable economic infrastructure: one merchant network, one participant cohort, configurable rules, and evidence that can support the next program without rebuilding from scratch.
$75,000
Illustrative sponsor pool
30
Network merchants
1,000
Eligible participants
Interactive walkthrough
Launch one program. Keep the network for the next one.
This illustrative Demo Town program shows the part Stabletown is designed to own: the program rules, participant and merchant network, operating record, and measurement. The payment or acceptance rail is selected to fit the community rather than defining the product.
Illustrative launch design
Program owner
Downtown Demo Town
Sponsor pool
$75,000
Merchant network
30
Eligible participants
1,000
1
Fund the program
A sponsor or program owner commits an incentive pool and approves the geography, participants, merchants, and rules.
2
Reach participants
Eligible residents receive or earn value through the distribution method chosen for the deployment.
3
Spend with local merchants
Participants use the program at eligible merchants. The acceptance rail can be a card, wallet, QR flow, merchant code, or another fit-for-purpose option.
4
Measure outcomes
Stabletown records program activity against the sponsor's rules so the operator can see participation, merchant reach, redemption, and local-spend outcomes.
Program status
Ready
Eligible local spend
—
Sponsor reporting
Pending
Illustrative planning data only. No live customer, token, offering, investment, custody, or movement-of-funds activity is represented here. Actual rails, economics, eligibility, and reporting depend on the deployment and qualified providers involved.
Rail-neutral by design
The program comes first. The acceptance rail fits the place.
Stabletown defines who participates, which merchants qualify, how value is earned or distributed, where it can be used, and what gets measured. A deployment can use an existing community card, a wallet or pass, QR or merchant-code flows, card rails, or other compatible infrastructure without changing the program thesis.
Optional community priority
Broadband can be a goal, not a requirement.
Demo Town may choose to connect sponsor messaging or measurement to broadband, downtown recovery, workforce, tourism, or another community priority. The first Local Dollars node can also be a straightforward local-commerce program with no civic project attached.
Illustrative planning data only. No live customer, token, offering, investment, custody, or movement-of-funds activity is represented on this page.