Below, we’d like to share a little analogy about how growing your CSA or produce delivery business with the help of our software is just like growing the plants themselves. Read on, and be sure to schedule your free demo to see if our software is right for your business model. 

How to Grow a Produce Delivery Business

Use Rich Soil

The soil is the environment that your plant grows in. It needs to be full of nutrients to feed your plant. In the same way, your business needs a strong foundation before it can begin to grow. This can include your business model and how you plan to make money; your staff and team members who handle customer concerns and pack up boxes; and even the local market competition. If your business is in a toxic environment, it is likely to die before it even begins to sprout. 

Plant Seeds

Next, you need to plant the seeds in the soil. This will be the vessel that delivers your business to the customers. In our analogy, this is your website. A website is more than just a URL, just as a plant is more than just a seed. This will be the base of all of your business, and two decades into the 21st century, you can’t expect your business to grow without a good, user-friendly website. 

Give it Water

Now you must water your plant! Water is the lifeblood of a plant. Too little and it will dry up. Too much, and it will drown. Water is like your customers. You need enough customers to fund your business, but get too many without a plan for scalability and you’ll find yourself unable to fulfill their needs! Our produce delivery software helps you scale up your business by ensuring the logistical tasks don’t get lost in the weeds. 

And Plenty of Sun

Sun provides energy for your plants. It helps them turn all of the above into resources that it can use to grow. In this case, our produce delivery software is like sunlight hitting your plant! It opens up your petals so you can fully bloom and ensures you are able to turn that soil, seed, and water into something deliverable to your customers. 

Time to Harvest!

Now, it’s time to sit back and rejoice in what you have grown! Your fully grown plants are the fruits of your labor — sometimes literally! Metaphorically, though, harvesting time is watching your business thrive with larger delivery areas and long-term customers. 

Grow Your Business With Our Produce Delivery Software

Whether you run a CSA or deliver meal kits, our produce software can help ensure nothing slips through the cracks. Request a demo of our produce and CSA software today. 

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If you run a small farm, you can get in on this trend, too. Many farms run on one of a few business models. They might sell their produce at a roadside stand or a farmers market, offer a pick-your-own service, or offer subscription farming through community-supported agriculture (CSA). As we touched on earlier, there is now another business model that many local farms are breaking into: home delivery.

Home delivery tends to take something that is very personal, produce shopping, and make it impersonal. Customers can order produce and have it delivered to their home without ever seeing your face. For that reason, we’re offering some tips below to help keep your produce business successful, including how a produce delivery software can help you provide your customers with the best service.

Provide Amazing Customer Service

One thing that never goes out of style is good customer service. Ensuring that your website is easy to use and that your customers know how to contact you or your representative can help them remember that there is an actual person who cares about them running this produce delivery business.

Keep In Touch

There’s a fine line between keeping in touch with your customers and spamming their inboxes with unnecessary emails. When blasting out emails to your customer base, remember the following:

• Write an amazing subject line. Customers will only open emails they know will benefit them. Subject lines should be short and leave your customers wanting more.
• Be brief. Your customers are busy and if you’re sending an email, it’s because you have something important to say. Keep things short, sweet, and to the point.
• Have a goal for the email. Each email should serve a purpose. Are you introducing new products? Are you offering a holiday discount? Are you making changes to your delivery schedule? In other words, your customers should get something out of reading your email.
• DON’T YELL!!! IT LOOKS SPAMMY!!!!! WE KNOW YOU’RE EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE, TOO!!!!!!! Emails in all-caps can look more like your grandmother’s political Facebook post than a professional marketing campaign. Get your customers excited by using a friendly and casual tone, including bright images of fresh produce and happy people, and offering a nice little promotional code for a discount off of their next delivery or a special incentive to refer a friend.
• Get personal. Using our home delivery software, you can send personalized emails to specific customers for their birthday, their one-year anniversary as your subscriber, if a customer has unpurchased items sitting in their cart, or for other reasons.

If you’re sending out emails to your customer base, make sure you are able to track what works and what doesn’t so you can adjust your strategy for the most results. With the Delivery Biz Pro home delivery software, you can track your email communications and see who read it, which links inside the email were clicked on, and find out just how effective your email communication is.

Highlight Reviews

When someone shops at a grocery store, they can interact with the produce they’re buying and pick the best-looking items from the shelf. When someone orders produce online for delivery, they have no idea what they’ll be getting. Reach out to your current customer base and ask for reviews of your produce and services. Chances are if potential customers see that your existing customers rave about how fresh your produce is, then they’ll be more likely to commit to your service.

Quality of Produce

When delivering produce, you need to ensure your prices are fair for the quality of your produce and your delivery service. While some customers will be pickier than others, you can take steps to prove to your customers that your produce is fresh and of a high quality. One way you can convey the quality of your service is through certain certifications. Examples of certifications include organic, pesticide-free, non-GMO, and compliance with Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Good Handling Practices (GHP).

Reliable Delivery Every Single Time

The larger your business grows, the more difficult it will be to provide consistent, accurate home deliveries, especially without a good produce delivery management software that integrates all aspects of your business. At Delivery Biz Pro, we have created a customizable home delivery software that streamlines processes from the moment a customer enters your website to when they place an order to when their delivery is dropped off.

Meeting Your Produce Delivery Software Needs

Learn more about using Delivery Biz Pro as your produce delivery software provider by telling us a little bit more about your business. Fill out our short no-commitment home delivery software application form and we’ll be in touch to chat about your business model and find out if we’re a good fit for you. Breaking into the home delivery sector can be intimidating, but with the right software to help run your business, you can see how streamlined and straightforward the process can be.

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Below, you’ll find five ways to make your CSA stand out from the competition — and we don’t just mean other CSAs in the area. Grocery stores and meal delivery programs are all offering something similar: produce and convenience. You simply need to prove to your shareholders that your produce is fresher, better, and more convenient than what the “other guys” are offering. Keep reading to learn a few ways to get ahead of the competition!

Make Your CSA Stand Out

1. Offer Home Delivery Of Fresh Produce: As a CSA farmer, you have a lot of competition whether there are other CSAs in your region or not. Home delivery of fresh produce looks to be the way of the future, with everyone from local and national grocery chains to Walmart and Amazon offering grocery deliveries. On top of that, you also have companies like Blue Apron and Hello Fresh delivering full meal kits. It is worth adding the convenience of home delivery to your CSA, as potential customers might be on the fence if they will need to travel to your farm to get their produce. Advertising your home delivery capabilities might just be what it takes to convince them to use your service. After all, produce they get from a CSA is going to be fresher and closer to home than anything they can get from Amazon or Blue Apron! And if this sounds complicated, don’t worry. There is software for local farmers that make the ordering, routing, and delivery process seamless.
2. Create An Online Community: Consider starting a Facebook group or other online forum where members of your CSA can interact with each other, share recipes, and discuss other topics related to your farm. This is also a great place for you to share updates about the farm and get your shareholders more involved. Share pictures of upcoming yields to get customers excited about their next delivery or let them know the best way to store this week’s items to keep them fresh. You can even offer opportunities for shareholders to come help out on the farm in exchange for discounts on their membership, or encourage them to invite their friends to the group so you can expand your reach to more potential customers.
3. Get Certified: The more certifications you have as a local farmer, the more credibility you’ll have with your customers. If you grow organically or have free-range chickens, start the process of certification for it. You can also be certified in humanely raised meat products, grass-fed beef, non-GMO, and lots of other things that shareholders like to see! Sometimes the certification process can take a long time, but the sooner you start, the sooner you’ll be able to tell your shareholders you are an organic farmer, you’re just waiting on the paperwork.
4. Offer Unique Produce… But Don’t Get Too Crazy: You want to offer your subscribers something special that other CSAs do not. However, you don’t want to get too crazy with how much unique produce you offer because your customers don’t want to have to Google every new vegetable they unbox as they are trying to cook dinner for their families. If you do offer some unique produce, be sure to include a recipe card on how to prepare and cook it. While most people will know exactly what to do with a crown of broccoli or some fresh carrots, they might be less sure how to prepare eggplant, jicama, and okra. Finding the perfect balance between variety, usability, familiarity, and uniqueness is key.
5. Get Feedback From Your Shareholders: Perhaps one of the best things you can do for your CSA is continue to adapt and change it to meet the desires of your shareholders. For example, doing this can relate directly back to number four by allowing your customers a place to say, “Hey, there’s way too many radishes in here and we never eat them!” Or, you might find that they love how much variety you have and that you’re the best CSA farmer they’ve ever worked with. If you never seek feedback, you’ll never know how they feel. One way to do this is by emailing surveys to your customers. Doing this at least twice throughout the season is a great place to start. Send out a survey in the middle of the season and ask your customers about their overall satisfaction and what they would like to see change. If you find out that a majority of your customers are unhappy about a certain aspect of your CSA, you’ll have time to make changes before the end of the season and hopefully encourage them to renew their membership. Using a software for small farmers will make it easier to keep up communication.

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Let’s Deliver The Groceries, Together!

We know that transitioning from a traditional pick-up-at-the-farm CSA to a CSA that offers delivery services is a huge step. There are a lot of factors that go into it, but we want to make it easy for you. Our comprehensive software has been specifically designed to meet the needs of local farmers who offer delivery services of their fresh produce. With features ranging from inventory management to mass customer communication to routing your entire customer base with the press of a button, we make it easy to handle orders and get them delivered to the right people at the right time.

Get in touch with Delivery Biz Pro today to learn more about using our produce delivery software for your CSA farm! We’ll set up a time to chat and see if we’re the right choice for your business.

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Can you hear that? It’s the sound of leaves crunching under your feet, quiet homes as children go return to school, and chili bubbling on the stove.

And can you smell that? It’s the scent of pumpkin spiced lattes wafting out of every coffee shop, freshly baked pies sitting in window sills, and fireplaces billowing smoke out of chimneys.

In other words, IT’S FALL Y’ALL!

Many people have a fascination with fall, especially after a long, hot summer. And as a CSA farmer or fresh produce deliverer, you have the ability to capitalize on this fascination by offering special goods during autumn. While it may sound complicated to add a bunch of seasonal inventory to your home produce delivery website, it can actually be quite easy if you are using the right meal delivery software.

At Delivery Biz Pro, we think we are that ‘right meal delivery software.’ We help local farmers deliver to hundreds of thousands of customers every week with easy-to-use routing and delivery software. But we don’t want to just see your business optimize its deliveries and routing. We want to see it thrive and try new things without the fear of it being ‘too complicated.’ At the end of the day, nothing is too complicated with just a little bit of planning and a good software.

We know fall is a busy time of year for your farm, and you are likely overflowing with seasonal produce. That’s why in today’s blog, we want to give you some ideas about what to do with all of those pumpkins and pears that are taking over your land. Keep reading to get some fall inspiration!

First, let people know what they can get and when.

If you use a CSA software or meal delivery software, it is likely that your customers expect a shipment of produce or meals every week or once a month. Perhaps they’ve been working with you for so long that they trust your judgement and don’t even hop into their accounts to choose what should be delivered. They might not even think to get their pumpkins from their CSA farmer! So be sure to let them know when you have new seasonal products in stock.

With Delivery Biz Pro, we make it easy to send out mass communication to your customers. For example, you can send out an email to all of your customers with an enticing subject line like, “Don’t Miss Out On Our Special Fall Offerings!” In the body of the email, let them know what products you’ll be offering for fall and how they can get them.

We also make it super easy to add seasonal products to your inventory and track sales and stock for these specific products. If you only want to keep the order window open for four weeks or until the inventory is sold out, you can do that all by checking a few boxes.

Get creative with what you’re offering.

As you can see by the title of this blog, one option is to offer pumpkins for delivery. While people can cook with these, they can also carve them into Jack O’Lanterns with their kiddos. And if you’re thinking, “Families want to go to the pumpkin patch together, they’ll never opt for delivery pumpkins,” have you ever hauled a bunch of kids to a pumpkin patch? The first time it’s a great opportunity for photos. The second time it’s full of crying because they don’t like the you-can-only-get-a-pumpkin-you-can-carry-yourself rule. The third time you wonder if you accidentally wandered into a haunted corn maze because this is truly what nightmares are made of.

We’re kidding, of course. Or, are we? We’ll never tell. The point is that there are likely multiple families on your subscription list who would gladly forego the pumpkin patch this year.

But why stop at pumpkin deliveries? If you run a meal delivery service, for example, you can offer a special ‘dessert kit delivery’, where you prepare a package with everything your customer needs to make a pumpkin pie from scratch! Include a fall-themed recipe card, a pumpkin they can actually cook and puree themselves, a couple of eggs, evaporated milk, and all the spices they need to create fresh pumpkin pie. You can even include flour and butter so they can create their own crust from scratch as well. Pro tip: be sure to also include directions on roasting all those pumpkin seeds!

If you have plenty of apples to spare, you can create the same type of kit but for an apple pie. Your customers will love that they can use farm-fresh food to create a meal from scratch without having to run to the store for all of the ingredients.

You can also begin to offer fall-themed dinners and meal kits. Pork chops and cinnamon-spiced apple sauce is always a hit. But you can go even more autumnal by offering pumpkin soups and stews, pumpkin chili, pumpkin pasta dishes and so much more! Butternut squash also makes a great pumpkin alternative for fall-worthy dinners.

If you don’t have the resources to offer full fall-based meals or it isn’t part of your business model to create meal kits (many CSA’s simply offer a boxed share of that week’s produce, for example), you can still offer some tasty fall treats that your customers can add to their delivery!

Some seasonal options you can easily offer using your produce delivery software include homemade pumpkin butter, apple butter, pear butter, applesauce, pumpkin bread, fig spread, and cranberry sauce. The list could go on and on, but isn’t your mouth watering already just thinking about these? Well, your customers’ mouths will water too when they visit your website and see a big display advertising these seasonal treats and how easy it is to have them delivered to their home!

Choose DBP As Your Produce Delivery Software

As your preferred produce delivery and routing software, we make it easy for you and your customers. On your end, you can customize your offerings, add seasonal produce and treats, send out mass emails to your customers to advertise your new products, and control your inventory management to prevent selling more than you can provide. For your customers, they can receive beautifully designed email reminders about upcoming seasonal offerings, add special products to their carts for the next delivery, and see when a product is out of stock.

There are a lot of neat things you can do this fall with your produce delivery service, and we want to make it as easy as possible. Let us handle the software and routing side of things while you focus on bringing your clients fresh, local products they’ll love!

To learn more about all that Delivery Biz Pro can offer, just drop us a line! We’ll set up a time to discuss our delivery routing software and see if we’d be a right fit for your CSA, local farm, or meal kit delivery business. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Obviously, a lot has to happen between the two of those events, and it doesn’t happen overnight — especially if you have never grown more than a few herbs before. To turn a dream into a business like this, you’ll need land, time, money, and perhaps even special certification or licensing depending on what you are selling and where, as some local areas have their own laws and regulations regarding the sale of produce, dairy, eggs, and other farm items.

Delivery Biz Pro is your small farm management software that helps local farmers all over the world manage their inventory, customers, and delivery routes all within one easy-to-use system. Of course, if you are just planting your first tomato plant, you might not need us yet. But for those who are serious about efficiently running their own small farm business, keep reading!

Step One: Friends And Family

This is perhaps one of the most fun things that occur when you begin a hobby farm. Eventually, you find yourself with more eggs or kale than you know what to do with, so you begin to offer your excess produce to close friends and family in the area. Maybe you even sell your eggs by the carton to coworkers who want farm-fresh eggs. You can feel justified charging them for these products because, after all, chicken feed, an irrigation system, and your hard labor doesn’t come free! Plus, even though you have close relationships with these people, they won’t mind spending a few bucks for fresh products.  

Step Two: The Farmers’ Market

Moving beyond giving or selling your excess produce to friends and family members is the world of the farmers’ market. Farmers’ markets are a relatively low-risk endeavor because if something happens to your harvest, like if your tomatoes are eaten up by a bunch of hungry rabbits, there’s not really much of a consequence other than you won’t sell your products that week and you might lose your vendor fee. Perhaps a few regular customers will be disappointed, but at the end of the day you didn’t promise anyone anything.

Farmers’ markets are also a good place to reach out to other local farmers for tips and advice. At the same time, you can put out feelers to those who stop by your tent. Ask them if they would be interested in joining a CSA or subscribing for a produce box delivery in the future. You might find that these services are in higher demand than you thought and you can start compiling a business plan to grow from a stand at the farmers’ market to a fresh produce delivery service.

If you are an organic grower or have free-range chickens or grass-fed beef or other production habits that you are particularly proud of, now would be a good time to work towards becoming certified organic or attaining other certifications. This will give you more credibility moving forward and show your customers that there’s a reason to buy local.

Step Three: Farm-To-Home Delivery

Finally, once you are sure your green thumb is here to stay, it’s time to start offering a farm-to-home delivery service. This type of service is in demand as more people want to know exactly where their food is coming from and how it was grown. Moving into this business model will require some hard work, marketing efforts, attaining the proper business licenses, and maybe even hiring on a few extra hands to ensure your supply can keep up with your demand.

Now, there are different kinds of farm-to-home delivery. Some farmers start up CSA farms, or community-supported agriculture farms. A CSA is a share-based farm where customers buy a share before the growing season to help you fund your farm and produce a hefty yield with your promise that you’ll provide them with a supply of weekly, biweekly, or monthly produce when it’s time to harvest. Typically with CSAs, subscribers get a box of equally distributed produce from that week’s yield rather than choosing which products they want.

Other local farmers choose to create more of an online fresh produce marketplace where customers can add products to their cart and have them delivered later on that week. For this type of system, you need to ensure you’re using a good fresh produce software to manage your inventory based on your expected yields so you don’t oversell your items.

If you run a dairy farm, or you sell fresh eggs, meat, or poultry, you can also allow your customers to decide what gets delivered each week or place recurring orders for certain items that are always in-stock. For example, maybe one customer needs a dozen eggs and a gallon of milk every week, but another needs two dozen eggs and a half gallon of milk per week. Allowing this system essentially allows your customers to frequently go shopping on your website while still providing you with a steady stream of orders.

Also very popular with local farmers are meal kits. Thanks to popular services like HelloFresh and Blue Apron, customers love the idea of having a conveniently boxed meal kit with a recipe that they can cook fresh at home. Even more than that, they love knowing that their meal kits are local and as fresh as can be. If you choose to sell these ready-to-assemble meal kits, you will need a way to track who needs how many servings in their kit, how often they want their deliveries made, and what kinds of meals they want that week or that month. All of this can get very confusing, but using a meal delivery software for local farmers can help immensely.

Need A Good Farm-Home Management Software?

If you are at a stage in your business model where you are making recurring deliveries to local customers, it is time to invest in a farm-home delivery management software. At Delivery Biz Pro, we provide just that. Our software truly does it all, from customer communication and automated emails and order updates to inventory management and delivery routing. Our goal is to take the hassle out of the logistical side of running a business by offering you complete transparency and customization of your software.

We’d love to talk with you more about our farm delivery and routing software! Drop us a line and we’ll set up a time to chat and see if Delivery Biz Pro is the right software for your local farm!

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If the above situation sounds a little familiar, that’s because for many of you, it is. It doesn’t take acres and acres of land to start a small farm business. But it does take a little bit of planning and the right tools. At Delivery Biz Pro, we love helping small businesses like yours expand your audience by giving you the home delivery software you need to make recurring deliveries of fresh produce, eggs, dairy, and any other goodies you grow on your farm. Keep reading to learn more about starting a small farm business and how the right farm delivery software can keep you running smooth!

Starting A CSA

It might be time to start your own business. Many people who begin with hobby farms and homesteading eventually move into the world of CSAs, or community-supported agriculture. A CSA is a share-based farm-to-home service that provides the local community with fresh produce, milk, eggs, meat, and other farm items. Some CSAs operate on a pick-up process, where customers come to your farm to pick up their items. However, it is becoming more popular for CSAs to offer home delivery for their customer’s convenience.

CSAs require a customer base to buy into your service and pay up-front with the promise of quality deliveries of fresh food throughout the growing season. This means that organization is key to ensure that everyone gets what they paid for. It also means you will need an online presence to convince people to sign up for your CSA. Delivery Biz Pro helps with all of that, from keeping track of customers to routing your deliveries in a logical manner. With our system, you can see who has paid and who hasn’t, who has crates and ice boxes that need to be returned, who wants to cancel this week’s delivery because they’ll be out of town, and so much more. All of this is nearly impossible to keep track of on your own, and if you try to do all of this without an industry-specific software, you’ll end up with a mess of spreadsheets and a lot of confusion.

To start a successful CSA, you will need to make sure to comply with all state and local laws regarding food handling, storage, and distribution. Some states require you to register your CSA with the government or obtain a business license. You can contact your state and local departments of agriculture to inquire about specific legislation around CSAs in your area.

CSA Tips

We’ve compiled five tips for running a successful CSA in the infographic below! Be sure to keep reading to learn more details about these important factors.

Variety Is Key

When someone subscribes to a CSA, they are making an investment in something without truly knowing what the outcome will be. For this reason, it is important to make the CSA worth your customers’ time and money by offering a wide variety of products. Cucumbers and lettuce are great, but if you can include other farm-fresh produce like strawberries, carrots, onions, tomatoes, zucchini, squash, cauliflower, broccoli, peppers, apples, peaches, and green beans, your customers are going to have a wider variety. You can also take your products and make things like organic ketchup, fruit preserves, honey, and cheese so they are getting more than just produce. The goal is to give them enough variety in their produce that they don’t have to make a trip to the store.

Keep Prices Fair

Pricing for a CSA can get a little complicated. You want to ensure it’s “worth it” for both you and your subscribers. If the share prices are too high, your subscribers will feel like they’ve been taken advantage of. If it is too low, you will not be able to profit from your business when you take into account the price not only of soil for the vegetables and the feed for the chickens and goats, but also of price of the refrigerated delivery boxes and CSA software. However, people pay for quality food and service. The more reliable your delivery service is and the higher-quality your products, the more people will be willing to pay. Everyone knows that you can get a dozen eggs at the store for $1.89 and a gallon of milk for less than $3.00. However, customers looking for fresh local produce aren’t looking for the cheapest way to feed their family. They are interested in fresh food without GMOs or hormones and free-range eggs with bright orange yolks. They buy local because they want the best, so they will be willing to pay more than you might think.

Let Them Choose

Let’s look at kale. Kale is a superfood that is delicious in just about any form, whether it’s blended into a smoothie, cooked with a pat of butter, tossed in a salad, or dried into crunchy kale chips. Or, at least that’s one person’s opinion. Another person might think kale was literally grown by Satan himself and should only be fed to people as a form of torture. Kale is one of those produce items that you either love or hate. So, if you have the two types of people above in your subscriber list, one is going to be very pleased to receive a nice delivery of kale, and the other will be wondering why they subscribed at all. Letting your customers choose what is delivered every week is the key to keeping everyone happy. (We’ll describe how to use your CSA management software to organize this below.)

Trade Products For Work

You might be thinking, “How am I going to have the time to run a farm that feeds X number of people?” Going to providing produce for your close friends and family is one thing, but the more people you serve, the bigger your farm will be, and the more hands you will need to maintain it. However, before you hire someone, consider offering CSA discounts for members who pledge to help out. This not only helps to build a community, but saves you and your customers money.

Give Your Customers A Helping Hand

Include recipe cards and meal ideas with each week’s delivery. These don’t have to be super fancy, but helping your customers know there are multiple ways to use their produce can ensure that every last leaf is used and nothing goes to waste, again showing your customers that your CSA is worth the investment.

Choose An Industry-Specific Software

Our produce delivery software can be customized to fit your exact needs and desires for your small farm. You have control over what your customers can and can’t do to ensure there are no surprises on the delivery day. The DBP software also ensures routes are clear for your drivers and empowers them to provide the same service to your customers that you do.

Why Choose DBP For Your CSA Management Software

Delivery Biz Pro is your top choice for CSA management software. This small farm software helps local CSA owners provide their customers with the best and most reliable service year after year. When you choose DBP, you get more than just our produce delivery software. We will help you build a beautiful online marketplace where customers can sign up for your service. Our websites are completely customizable and designed for your industry. For example, you can decide if you require all dues upfront or if you will allow payment installments. Our websites are mobile-friendly, so regardless of which device your customer is using, they will be greeted with a functional and aesthetic website.

On your online marketplace, your customers can choose what gets delivered each week and manage their subscriptions. Because they have already paid their dues to your CSA, they can sign in and add certain items to their carts. If you have only a limited amount of a product, you can update your inventory on the site and customers will be met with an “out of stock” notice when that item is spoken for.

We also make it easy to send out emails and promotions to your customers so they know what produce is going to available next week or learn new ways to cook certain items. You can also post one-time items that might not be included in a produce box. For example, if you keep bees, maybe you want to give your customers the option to purchase honey, beeswax soap, and other bee products to have delivered with their recurring box that week.

When it is time to make deliveries, our delivery routing software will add your customers to a route based on certain specifications. Maybe you have a customer who only receives a delivery once a month rather than every week, or you deliver to one side of town on Tuesdays and the other side gets their orders on Thursday. However you decide to route your drivers, our software makes it truly simple. Your drivers can check off when a delivery has been made, send your customers a delivery confirmation text or email, and even account for crates or ice boxes that have been returned to you or are outstanding.

Our software can also generate multiple graphs and charts to show you exactly where your business stands on any given day, making it easy to know if you are profiting and by how much, which products are pulling your customers in, and so much more. Basically, we have created this software to be tailored to your business and easy to use. After all, we don’t expect you to be a software expert — that’s our job! We just want to make your job easier for you and your customers.

Our CSA Software Helps Small Farms Thrive

In order to run a successful CSA, you will need a way to keep track of orders, customers, payments, and delivery routes. Our intuitive and customizable farm delivery software takes the guesswork out and makes all of the logistics simple and easy to understand so you can focus on growing healthy food for your community.

When you work with DBP, you will have access to our software as well as our design and development team. That means if there is ever a problem with your CSA software, we’ll get to the bottom of it. We take care of software updates, keep your data secure, and backup your date twice daily so if a calamity happens, you won’t lose all of your important information and hard work.

We currently host nearly 7,000 fresh, local, and natural farms and suppliers in our system, who combined offer over 70,000 products to their customers, and our software alone ensures that over 600,000 deliveries get to where they need to be every single week. What this all means is that we’re not new to the game. We have developed a tried and true home delivery software (and continue to develop it based on your needs and feedback) in order to ensure your business is running as smoothly as possible.

If you are interested in using our farm delivery software for your business, then take twenty seconds to fill out our CSA software application and we’ll figure out a time to get in touch and chat. You’ll notice that we have an “application” rather than a big ol’ button that says “buy now.” This is because we want to make sure your business model and our software will be a good fit before you make an investment. After all, when you’re happy with your software, we’re happy — and, more importantly, your customers are happy! Get in touch with Delivery Biz Pro today to see if our CSA software solution is right for your business!

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