ℹ️ What is Pagachey for?
Whether you are an individual or a business, Pagachey helps you pass on food you won’t eat or won’t sell, to people nearby.
Pagachey is a sharing channel based on location, right in WhatsApp!
Each requester sees the food available around them, and can get it for free or buy it at a very low price.
💰 Is Pagachey free?
Posting listings is free for up to 1 week of publication, with up to 3 active listings at a time. You can raise these limits with Pagachey Max.
⏳ How long does a listing stay online?
A listing stays up between 1 and 7 days at most for products close to their expiry date. The poster must guarantee that the product is safe to eat for the whole period shown. For products with a long shelf life, a listing can stay up for up to 2 months. Some products keep even longer, but Pagachey aims to show “fresh” listings that don’t linger.
At the end of that period, a listing that hasn’t found a taker expires: it no longer shows up in searches and disappears on its own. If a request is in progress, the poster and the requester get 24 extra hours to complete the exchange.
The poster is free to post the product again if it is still fit to eat.
❤️ Is the food fresh? What about hygiene?
All food offered on Pagachey falls under a charter that all members agree to follow.
📝 Is a listing easy to manage?
A poster can edit a listing as long as it is published.
A listing can be “hidden”: it won’t be shown while it has that status. It can also be deleted.
📱 How do I get in touch, or get contacted?
Everything happens in WhatsApp, without sharing your phone number.
You have a username, and that is how other users identify you, nothing more!
🤔 How do we talk on WhatsApp?
Each product request between a poster and a requester has its own conversation, which stays strictly between you. Once you are in a request, you are always reminded who your messages are going to, so there’s no mix-up.
🛡️ How can I tell if a poster is reliable?
Check the listing carefully, and don’t commit if you have any doubt.
A new Pagachey user has the 🐣 badge next to their username. As they gain experience (using Pagachey, sharing food), their badge evolves.
Chat a little with any poster to make sure they are genuine, and feel free to ask questions about the product.
Are you a business (restaurant, shop, other service) or a charity or association? Fill in the field in your account with your organization’s administrative details (for example, company registration or VAT number).
🙌 Food for everyone
Each listing has a field showing whether the food is halal or kosher, or suits certain intolerances (gluten-free, lactose-free, egg-free, nut or peanut-free). Fill it in on your Pagachey listing to help users who need this information.
🎟️ Loyalty card
If your account has the “Business” status, you can open the Loyalty card section from My account and set up a card for your customers. To share it with them, generate a QR code in the same section.
🥝 What is a kiwi link?
These are sharing links in the format paga.kiwi/6-character-code. They are completely safe, feel free to open them!
❓ Another question?
The full help guide, with answers to the most detailed questions, is available in WhatsApp. Send “help” there and browse the sections.
The Pagachey team will be happy to answer any question you have. Just send “contact” in WhatsApp, or visit this page.