Features that help you save time!
New: Save time on producer payments
You love helping connect shoppers to local food. But keeping track of payments owed to each of the farmers and vendors you work with can get tricky. If you manage a food hub, you know time consuming. it can be to track what you owe, create bills, and issue a payment. You also know how costly an accounting error can be when all of those clunky spreadsheets you use don’t add up.
All Local Food Marketplace, our mission is to help our customers save time, so you can focus on what you do best: growing your business. That’s why LFM’s latest new feature will allow food hubs and farmers markets to directly pay producers for what they owe on pick lists and purchase orders.
How do producer payments work?
LFM is ONE system for all things local food sales. Producers list what they’d like to sell on an LFM-powered market. Customers order the food, and LFM uses these orders to generate pick lists/order forms for the vendors. For many e-commerce sites, this is as far as the process goes. But LFM is more than just an online storefront. LFM keeps track of the cost owed by a market for these pick lists to vendors. Then, LFM provides a user-friendly page where markets can see, at a glance, everything they owe to producers. With just a few clicks, you can make adjustments to payments, mark orders as paid, and send an electronic payment directly to producers’ accounts. And you can even create bills in QBO! Pay for one week at a time, or bulk pay across multiple order periods.
Producer payments accounting page on LFM.
What does that mean for you?
Saved time for you AND your producers.
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- One food hub customer reported spending more than 40 hours a year calculating and issuing payments to just ten producers! Cut this time down to a few clicks of a button!
- No more switching between various spreadsheets or systems. LFM offers ONE place where you can see what you owe or have paid at a glance.
- No more costly accounting errors from entering data by hand.
- Producers can receive electronic payments faster than ever.
Order, pay, and track, all with one system. Ready to learn more? Schedule a demo. -
Check out part 2 of our payments feature updates: QBO Integration.
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Looking for more ways to grow your business and save time? Check out some free resources for farmers and food hubs:
