African and Caribbean groceries, restaurant meals, beauty and hair care, from the shops your community already trusts. Order in a few taps, follow your courier on the map, or pick it up yourself.
Now available on iOS and Android. Card payments are handled by Stripe. AJIL never stores your card.
The app
How it works
No phone calls, no guessing whether the shop is open, no wondering where your order is.
Browse the grocers, restaurants and beauty shops near you. Opening hours, minimum order and delivery fee are shown before you add anything to the cart.
Your address fills itself in from your location, with suggestions as you type. Pay by card, add a tip if you want to, or schedule the order for later.
Watch the courier on the map, message them if the gate code changed, and get a receipt with every fee broken out line by line.
What you'll find
Not a generic catalogue. The brands, cuts and packages people from home look for by name.
Home cooking from the kitchens in your neighbourhood, served hot, taxed correctly, delivered fast.
Rice, flours, spices, frozen fish, palm oil, fresh produce. Bought in the shops your family already uses.
Braiding hair, creams, oils and the products that are hard to find outside a specialty store.
Wax prints, bazin, tailoring supplies and ready-to-wear from local sellers.
Built for real orders
The details that decide whether an order arrives right: who opens the door, what to do if an item is out, and what you were actually charged.
Sales tax, done properly
In Maryland, prepared meals carry sales tax and most grocery staples do not. AJIL applies the right rate to each item on the receipt rather than one blended rate to the whole basket, so what you are charged matches what the law says.
| Restaurant meal | 6.00% |
| Grocery staples | 0.00% |
For merchants
You keep your shop, your prices and your hours. AJIL brings the orders, the couriers and the payments.
Questions
We are starting in the Baltimore and Washington area. If your neighbourhood is not covered yet, write to [email protected] and tell us where you are, that is how we decide where to open next.
The delivery fee and any service fee are shown in the cart before you pay, and again on the receipt. Choosing pickup removes the delivery fee entirely. Some shops set a minimum order, which is displayed on the shop page.
Payments run through Stripe. Your card number never reaches AJIL's servers and is never stored by us. If you save a card, it is held by Stripe and we keep only a customer reference.
Yes. Couriers work through a separate AJIL app and are onboarded individually. Email [email protected] with your city and we will send you the steps.
From the app: Profile → Delete my account. Your personal details are removed. Past orders are kept but anonymised. Sales records have to survive for tax reporting, so they cannot simply be erased.
Now available on iOS and Android. Order African & Caribbean groceries and meals, delivered or pickup, with live tracking.
Want a specific shop on AJIL? Suggest a shop.
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