How it works
Buy, Sell, Exchange, Barter in your own alternative currency!
Swatopia allows you to create your own trading communities, whether its just your neighbors or entire towns and cities to create alternative means of trading.
Self-reliance
Trading in your own local currency promotes local economic strength and community self-reliance in ways which will support economic and social justice, ecology, community participation and building local economies.
Building communities
Trading in your local currencies helps keep money local, building the local economies. it can help revitalise and build local communities by allowing a wider cross-section of the community, individuals, small businesses, local services and voluntary groups to save money and resources in cooperation with others and extend their purchasing power.
Stimulate local economies
It can stimulate local economies of economically depressed towns that have goods and services, but little official currency: An alternative local currency does not require outside sources of income and stimulus.