FARMERS
All the features farmers need to sell from farm-to-table
The food system is unique - you need a platform custom built for you. We've carefully designed our platform so that every type of farm can successfully sell direct to customer.
Key Features
Branded Online Store
Your Local Line store is professional, easy-to-navigate, and optimized across all devices for a great customer experience. You can launch your store in as little as 30 minutes!
Customized Price Lists
Customize what products and prices your customers see. With dedicated URLs and customer lists, you can tailor your storefront to maximize sales.
Payment Flexibility
Set up online payments and customize your payment terms. Issue discounts, store credits, offer multiple payment types at checkout, and so much more!
Multiple Package Options
Create multiple package options per product. Offer a variety of product variations on each product you sell.
Product Categories
Create product categories for your storefront. You can arrange the categories in the order you want them displayed.
Order
Management
Pick & Pack Lists
Download pick lists for each order cycle to make your picking and packing a breeze! Never miss an item from an order again.
Invoicing & Payments
Turn your orders into invoices in one click! Print them for an easy pickup experience and sync with your accounting system.
Point of Sale
Process orders in person with the Local Line POS integration with the Square Terminal device.
Fulfillment Status Tags
Track every order as it moves through your fulfillment process. Track order status, deliveries, payments, and more.
Inventory Management
Easily track and update all of your products, prices and inventory in one platform. With everything you'd expect in inventory management, you're able to track packaging, categories, seasonality, and more!
Automated Inventory Tracking
Manage and update your inventory, pricing, product photos and more. Create multiple product package's and track inventory from one aggregate inventory pool.
Variable Weight Packages
You can sell by the package, track by weight, and vice versa. You can mark products as needing approval so that orders are not finalized until you input the final weight.
Out of Stock Listings
Determine whether you'd like to display out of stock products on your storefront. You can also decide if you'd like to display remaining inventory.
Product Tags
Using product tags, you can make your customers' shopping experience even better. Product tags are a great way to highlight an organic item or draw attention to a limited time offer.
Price Lists
Create unique product offerings for different customer segments. You can customize your products, packages, and prices for retail & wholesale customers.
Public & Private Price Lists
With multiple price lists, you get to decide if you want them to be public or private. With private price lists, only customers that you approve will be able to see your product listings.
Unique Price List URL
Create a custom URL for each price list to make communicating with your customers even easier.
Custom Price List Rules
Customize how fulfillment, payment, order minimums, and lead times work with each price list.
Online & Offline Payments
Online Payments
Local Line allows you to accept online payments from customers by integrating with LocalPay (Local Line's payment service), Square, or Stripe.
Payment Methods
Accept payments from customers in multiple ways. You can offer online payments, check, cash, e-transfer, SNAP/EBT, and more.
Automated Charges
If you sell a product by weight, you can charge your customers card after the final weight is calculated.
Custom Payment Terms
You might need retail customers to pay at checkout, whereas wholesale customers might have 30 day payment terms.
Flexible Fulfillment Options
Delivery Zones
Create multiple delivery zones using locations, postal or zip codes, or a radius. Set up each plan to operate on a schedule that works for you.
Pickup Locations
Create multiple pickup locations for your customers. Add your retail store, local market, or any other locations you'd like!
Scheduled Time slots
Within the pickup locations, you can create time slots to better organize the flow of customers coming to pick up their orders.
Order Cutoff Time
Decide how much notice you need for your orders. If you need all orders places one day before by 12pm, no problem! Customers will only see fulfillment plans that match the parameters you choose.
Customer
Management
Order Reminders
Using automated order reminders, your customers receive an email at the same time every week (or day, or month) with a reminder to place their order.
Guest Checkout
Some customers don't want to create an account and manage yet another password. That's why we enable you to offer guest checkout.
Store Credit
Leverage store credit for your CSA, or as a perk for customer loyalty. Each customer received their own store credit balance to manage.
Customer Accounts
Customers can create their own accounts for easier login. They can also save their credit card info to their account for ease of repeat purchase.
Robust Reports & Analytics
Get at-a-glance business insights and generate reports through our Reports Dashboard, allowing you to make key decisions based on reliable data.
Sales Insights
Know what to grow by seeing your top-selling products, track your sales by catalog, delivery zone and more.
Optimize Your Marketing
Monitor your least active customers for opportunities to re-engage them, or understand where your customers are using storefront views by city.
Export Reports
The Reports Dashboard gives you the option of exporting your data to multiple formats quickly and easily.
Community
Discover Local Sellers
Connect with other farms, hubs, and markets using Local Line. You can share price lists with neighbours and create online one-stop-shops.
Dedicated Community
Gain access to our exclusive online community where farmers meet and discuss all things business, agriculture, and technology.
Free Website
Create a free, beautiful website for your farm. Easy-to-use drag and drop features allow you to customize your farms website in hours. You can even pick a custom domain.
Easy-to-Use Templates
You can choose from 5 pre-made templates made specifically for farmers. Each one has a different style so pick the one that best fits your brand!
Custom Branding
Create the website that you want. Every element is customizable to your business and your branding.
Always Included
With our impressive standard features, Local Line makes sure that you'll be selling online in no time.
Onboarding
Receive a dedicated onboarding manager when you become a Local Line customer. We'll help you set up, launch, and market your store. We also offer free account set up!
Technical Support
Local Line's best-in-class support will be there to continually support you after you launch. Our support centre is open from 9am - 9pm EST, seven days a week! Call us anytime!
Free Resources
The Local Line content team produces e-books, real books, webinars, videos, case studies, and other resources. You'll have access to hundreds of pages and hours of video content.
Spend more time in the field and less time in the office.
All it takes is a few clicks to get you connected to your customers, selling online, and easily fulfilling your orders.