This spring, Local Food Marketplace is introducing a new look and new functionality to our storefront. We are thrilled to show off these changes, which are designed to provide an improved shopping experience for your consumer and increased sales for you. Introducing: The New LFM Storefront! These changes are very...
Are you looking for improved results from your online store? You’ve tried word-of-mouth marketing, you’ve tried social media, you’ve tried ads, and nothing seems to be helping. LFM customers regularly report that sales spike when they send an email, and this tracks with industry data. For years, email marketing has...
We’re thrilled to be the first local food-focused provider of Online SNAP that features built-in automated SNAP Match support. This comprehensive solution not only drives sales opportunities for our customers, making Online SNAP more impactful, but also reduces admin time spent on managing and reporting. This project aligns with our...
LFM is Helping Farmers Manage the Unexpected — with Fewer Clicks When Fiddlehead Farms had a smaller yield of spinach than expected, farmer Heather Coffey needed a quick solution to update over 150 customer orders with smaller bags of spinach. Luckily, LFM’s latest software update includes bulk options to help...
Reach Your Customers in Their Language Our goal at Local Food Marketplace is to help support local food ecosystems. Our software solutions are helping farmers, food hubs, and markets sell and distribute local food. When shopping online, language barriers can get in the way of local food access. That’s why,...
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...
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...
As we celebrate another New Year and reflect on both challenges and growth opportunities for local food systems, Local Food Marketplace is as committed as ever to helping farmers share their products (without increasing their workload). We are excited to kick off the year with a new app especially for...