When it comes to running a business, it’s not just about getting the sale. It’s about knowing how to get the sale again and again. Good data is the key to knowing which crops you should plant, which are your most popular delivery locations, how much each producer is selling...
How Fiddlehead Farm Uses LFM’s Software to Sell Customizable Farm Shares. For CSA farmers, finding technology to support their unique needs can be a challenge. We recently sat down with Heather Coffey of Fiddlehead Farm to talk about how LFM helps her offer CSA (community supported agriculture) shares all year...
Solving Your CSA’s Biggest Challenge: 3 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 Local Food Marketplace (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 an online sales system that is as flexible as...
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 e-commerce platforms can’t accommodate the flexibility and...
Local Food & 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). This trend has only grown during the pandemic. Customers are seeking out convenient ways to get their favorite...
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 these purchases,...
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...
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...