Solving Your CSA’s Biggest Challenge: Three Tips to Retain Customers Year After Year If your CSA is like most, customer retention is your biggest challenge. Are you keeping and growing customers from season to season? It takes an investment of time, effort, and money to get customers to sign up,...
You’re selling local food online. You have loyal customers, good products, and high web traffic to your online store. But you’re still looking for ways to grow. LFM is here to help. Our newest guide, Increasing Average Order Value, is free to download and full of expert tips to help you sell more...
At LFM, our mission is to help you get local food to your community — from family dinner tables to restaurant meals, school lunches, community food pantries, and more. With all the different ways you sell your products, you need food distribution software that is as flexible as your business. LFM...
The most streamlined local food subscription experience yet — for you and your customer! We’re so excited to let you know about new software features to help you manage your customized CSAs, farm shares, and subscriptions! There are many ways to sell online, but typical ecommerce platforms can’t accommodate the...
Local Food and the Subscription Economy Plus, some new subscription features on the LFM platform. In 2019, businesses offering subscriptions grew five times faster than other companies (source: the Subscription Economy Index). Customers are seeking out convenient ways to get their favorite items without spending more time in the store....
New: Save Time on Accounting Accounting is complex. It’s even more tricky when your business distributes fresh food — something impossible to perfectly predict. And for a food hub purchasing from five, ten, fifteen or more different farmers? That’s a lot to account for. To help you keep up with...
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...
Easy Payments Online and In-Person: Integrate your Local Food Marketplace with Square! Are you making in-person sales at farmers markets, your farm store, or pickup locations? Managing these orders can get overwhelming quickly, leading to extra work manually recording payments, not to mention balancing your inventory records with your order...
An Interview with Blue Sky Organic Farms From farm stores and markets to wholesale and restaurants customers, there are so many ways to sell local food. Read on to learn about an organic farm that is using Local Food Marketplace as a single software solution for selling to four different...
We recently spoke to Brittany Overshiner of Upswing Farm, a small vegetable farm in Pepperell, Massachusetts that offers a variety of CSA (community supported agriculture) farm shares. Brittany’s goal is to increase accessibility to fresh, local food. Read on to see how Local Food Marketplace (LFM) helps Upswing Farm offer...