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Role Separation in a Multi-Sided Marketplace: The Buyer, Seller and Driver Worlds
Payment Security on Cyca: Architecture, Encryption, and the Choice of Stripe
Paste the ticket, send a driver
Everything a shop needs, in one tab
You choose what you carry
The data screen that tells you the truth
Show them, instead of describing it
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Open the Research page →Cyca serves buyers, sellers and drivers, whose needs differ and often compete. Each role now runs in its own world within one app and one account. This post explains the design and what it prevents.
How card payments on Cyca are built: card details go into Stripe's own form and never reach our servers. What we store instead, how it is protected, and why we chose an established processor over building our own.
A restaurant that takes its orders on the phone does not need to move to Cyca to use a Cyca driver. Paste the order or photograph the kitchen ticket, and the address is read off it.
Products, stock, orders, returns, coupons, flash sales, delivery and going live — the whole shop runs from a phone, in the same app your customers are already in.
Four kinds of work reach a Cyca driver — marketplace orders, partner pickups, PickMe rides and a house fleet — and none of them is compulsory.
How much data Cyca has used on your phone, measured rather than estimated — plus the cache you can clear and the two requests that get your data out or erased.
Screen sharing landed in Cyca calls — and the call surface got nine new tones, a real ringback, and a hang-up that ends instantly instead of hanging there.
PickMe is rides on Cyca: you name your price, nearby drivers accept or counter, and the platform fee is 99 cents a trip — flat, off the driver's balance, never a percentage.
The moment a courier takes your order, a live map opens: their vehicle moving down real streets, the route drawn to your address, and a Talk to driver button one tap away.
Communities grew up: schools with a room per class, staff seats a teacher claims with a code, an organisation face for businesses and NGOs, and a verified tick that a person actually checks.
Every call button in Cyca now wears live presence — green when they're online right now. Glance your calls list and you know who will pick up before you dial.
A whole second world inside Cyca opened this week: a driver home with one big duty switch, offers that take over the screen, and sellers who can deliver their own orders.
A week of surgical fixes to the moments around a call: cancels that retract instantly, rings that never outlive the caller, and a ringback that behaves.
Going live is the show — but the shop shouldn't close when the camera does. Storefronts keep every product on the shelf around the clock, beautiful enough to send as a link.
Your order notifications used to land in the same thread as your conversation with a shop. Now they get their own one-way channel — so a delivery update never buries a message from a person.
Sellers can now feature a lineup instead of a single item, buyers get a carousel that reads like a running order, and every price finally shows in the shop's own currency.
Live streams were going soft at full signal. The cause was not bandwidth — nothing in the chain was ever asking for the good layer.
A locked, force-quit phone rings as a native call and answers from the lock screen. Here is what it took to get there, and why we ship call changes one at a time.