Someone is already going that way.
Send a parcel with a neighbour on your route, or fill the empty seats in a journey you were making anyway. No fleet, no dispatch, no driver circling for work — a declared journey, a fair fee, and a handover both sides stamp.
Carriers keep at least 70% of every fee. That is a rule, not a promotion.
The cars left the app. The journeys did not leave the road.
Nobody stopped going to work, to market, to school, to the next street. At any moment, millions of Nigerians are in motion — and almost all of that motion carries spare capacity.
That capacity is not scarce. It is simply unaddressed.
Lagos · photo: UnsplashA network that converts journeys people are already making into witnessed, contracted, settled value for someone else — whether what travels is a parcel or a person.
Built on rules we will not break — even when it would grow faster.
Most platforms publish values. Carrying publishes constraints — and builds the product so they cannot be quietly walked back.
The Motion Rule
A carrier may only accept an errand that lies on a journey they were already making. There is no browse-and-bid, no job board — a carrier who has not declared a journey sees nothing.
Detour honesty
Every match states what it costs the carrier — in kilometres and minutes — before it states the fee. Nobody is priced into a journey they did not intend.
The Ceiling
What a carrier may be trusted with — the value of a parcel, and whether they may carry people at all — rises only through witnessed completions. No paid verification, no shortcut a growth team can sell. When something sits outside your ceiling or your detour envelope, Carrying says so and says why.
Both sides stamp
No handover exists until both sides stamp it — a six-digit code read aloud, not a silent scan. A parcel collected, a passenger aboard: the same stamp, read by both. It completes with no network and reaches the other side on a feature phone by SMS or USSD.
Carriers keep at least 70%
The carrier take floor is a hard constraint of the model, not an introductory rate. The person doing the carrying keeps the substance of the fee.
Both sides rate
The people you carry rate you as you rate them, and it shows in your Plugg reputation. Rating runs both ways on every journey — a passenger's conduct is as much a part of the record as a carrier's.
A journey is not a claim. It is a chain of stamped events.
The same six states carry a parcel and carry a person. Only the fourth reads differently: a parcel is in your hands, a passenger is in your vehicle.
An empty seat is spare capacity too. Someone is going your way.
Driving a journey you were already making? Declare the seats. People travelling the same road join you, under the same rules that govern a parcel.
Say where you're going and how many seats are free. The Motion Rule holds: you are offering a journey you were making anyway, not going to work as a driver.
People on your route see the seat. They see the pickup point and the fare before they accept; you see what the stop costs you in minutes before you do.
A passenger boards on a six-digit code read aloud, and arrives on a second one. Neither side can stamp alone, so neither side can claim a journey that never happened.
At arrival you rate each other. That rating is not decoration — it travels with both of you, into the Plugg reputation your ceiling is built on.
The people you carry rate you as you rate them — and it shows in your Plugg reputation.
One reputation across the whole ecosystem. How you treat a passenger on a Tuesday is part of the same record a lender, a market, or another carrier reads later.
No car, no bike? A journey is still all you need.
Crossing the city anyway? An envelope rides in your bag, and the fee rides home with you.
Same seat, same route, every weekday. A regular journey makes you the most matchable carrier on it.
Short hops suit small errands. A charger to Maryland fits a trip you already flagged down.
To the junction and back counts. Some of the best errands end two streets away.
No shift, no quota, no app to babysit. Declare the journey you were making, take what fits along it — or take nothing, and lose nothing.
Every match states the detour in kilometres and minutes before the fee. Declining costs you nothing; your journey stays yours.
At least 70% of every fee, settled in Naira when both stamps land. Every witnessed completion — and every rating it earns you — raises what you may carry next.
Trust is earned in increments, never granted in bulk. A new carrier cannot carry your laptop — or your daughter.
One ladder governs both. The tier that decides what a parcel may be worth also decides whether a carrier may take passengers at all, and it moves on witnessed completions and the ratings they earn.
Carrying is the second commercial application built on Plugg.
Plugg is the social commerce framework incubated by Cocoon Letters Limited. Carrying consumes its primitives rather than reinventing them. Aboki, in Aba, came first.
Fair questions, straight answers
Carrying is being built in the open, rules first. If your question isn’t here, ask — we answer plainly or say “we don’t know yet.”
info@carrying.ng →What can travel?
Two things: small, lawful items a person can carry without changing their journey — documents, chargers, forgotten keys, a parcel from the market — and people, in the empty seats of a journey someone was already making. Items are declared, photographed, and checked against the carrier's ceiling; seats are gated by that same ceiling.
So is this ride-hailing?
No. An e-hailing driver goes to work: they log on, wait to be dispatched, and drive where the fare takes them. A Carrying carrier is already going somewhere and fills what is spare along the way — a seat or a boot. The Motion Rule makes that structural, not a promise: declare no journey and you see nothing to accept.
Do I need a vehicle to carry?
Only for seats. Parcels need a journey, not a vehicle — most journeys in Lagos happen in danfos, BRTs, kekes, and on foot, and Carrying matches to the journey rather than the machine. If you're travelling as a passenger yourself, you can carry what fits your hands and your tier.
How do I know who I'm riding with?
Every carrier is a verified identity with a rating history, and seats only unlock at a tier that takes witnessed completions to reach. Boarding and arrival are both stamped by the two of you, so the journey is on the record. Afterwards you rate each other — and that rating follows you both into your Plugg reputation.
What happens if the network dies at a handover?
The stamp completes with no network and reconciles when you reconnect. And a requester doesn't need a smartphone — the code reaches a feature phone by SMS or USSD.
When and where does Carrying launch?
Carrying does not launch in a city. It launches in a corridor — bounded, dense, and socially legible. Lagos first; corridors multiply, and cities are what corridors become. Join the waitlist and we'll tell you when yours opens.
Your errand is someone’s route home. So is your empty seat.
Be first in line when your corridor opens — as a requester, a passenger, a carrier, or all three.