CoopCycle is a self-hosted platform to order meals in your neighborhood and get them delivered by bike couriers. The only difference with proprietary platforms as Deliveroo or UberEats is that this software is reserved to co-ops.

The main idea is to decentralize this kind of service and to allow couriers to own the platform they are working for. In each city, couriers are encouraged to organize into co-ops, and to run their very own version of the software.

The software is under active development. If you would like to contribute we will be happy to hear from you! All instructions are in the Contribute file.

Coopcycle-web is the main repo, containing the web API, the front-end for the website and the dispatch algorithm : Technical Overview. You can see it in action & test it here : https://demo.coopcycle.org

You can find a comprehensive list of our repos here : Our repos comprehensive list.

• Install Docker and Docker Compose.

  • On OSX : use Docker for Mac which will provide you both docker and docker-compose. It doesn't rely on Virtualbox as Docker used to.

  • On Windows : use Docker for Windows which will provide you both docker and docker-compose. Depending on your platform, Docker could be installed as Native or you have to install Docker toolbox which use VirtualBox instead of Hyper-V causing a lot a differences in implementations. If you have the luck to have a CPU that supports native Docker you can share your hard disk as a virtual volume for your appliances.

  You will need to download openssl to generate certificates. The make script suppose that both are found in your Path environment variable.

  • On Linux : follow the instructions for your distribution. docker-compose binary is to be installed independently. Make sure to install docker-compose following instructions to get the latest version. You can use CoopCycle without root privileges, to do so run sudo usermod -aG docker your-user (will add you to the docker group).

• Setup Google Maps API

CoopCycle uses the Google Maps API for Geocoding, as well as the Places API. You will need to create a project in the Google Cloud Platform Console, and enable the Google Maps API. GCP will give you an API token that you will need later. By default, the Geocoding and Places API will not be enabled, so you need to enable them as well (Maps API dashboard > APIs > Geocoding API > Enable, and Maps API dashboard > APIs > Places API for Web > Enable).

• (Linux) Setup permissions

If you are using Linux, you will need to allow the user www-data used by the php docker container to write files to your local disk. You can do this by running the following commands in the directory containing your local clone of the repository:

sudo chown -R $(id -u):82 coopcycle-web
sudo chmod -R g+w coopcycle-web

• Start the Docker containers

docker-compose up

At this step, the platform should be up & running, but the database is still empty. To create the schema & initialize the platform with demo data, run:

make install

• Or if needed with an additional UI to help you manage the containers environment

Use the below command to get the portainer UI:

docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose-portainer.yml up

open http://localhost:9000 to access portainer Setup and confirm the admin password the first time you use it.

• Open the platform in your browser

open http://localhost

• Create the test database

docker-compose run php bin/console doctrine:schema:create --env=test

• Launch the PHPUnit tests

make phpunit

• Launch the Behat tests

make behat

• Launch the Mocha tests

make mocha

When pulling change from the remote, the database models may have changed. To apply the changes, you will need to run a database migration.

make migrations-migrate

The code is licensed under the Coopyright License, meaning you can use this software provided:

• You are matching with the social and common company’s criteria as define by their national law, or by the European Commission in its October 25th, 2011 communication, or by default by the Article 1 of the French law n°2014-856 of July 31st, 2014 “relative à l’économie sociale et solidaire”
• You are using a cooperative model in which workers are employees