FOOD HUBS
All the features your Hub needs
Food Hubs are complex - you need a platform custom built for you. We've carefully designed our platform so that Food Hubs of all sizes can stay organized, efficient, and profitable!
Key Features
A One-Stop-Shop Platform
Your Hub's Local Line storefront is streamlined, easy-to-navigate, and optimized across all devices for a great customer experience.
Create a one-stop-shop for your community to access well-grown, local food.
Create a one-stop-shop for your community to access well-grown, local food.
Tailor-Made Price Lists
With dedicated catalogs and customer lists, you can tailor your storefront to the right audience and maximize your sales.
Simplified, Single Checkout
Your customers can shop from any of your local producers in one place and enjoy a simple checkout process. It's up to you to decide how the profits are divided between you and your producers.
Intuitive & Easy to Navigate
The storefront has been designed for an optimized shopping experience. Your customers have the ability to shop by producer, by category, by stock availability, and can quickly search for their favorite products week after week.
Streamlined Order Management
Automated Purchase Orders
When your customers place orders with your food hub, supplier purchase orders will automatically be created and sent.
Producer Payout Reports
Generate payment reports so you always know how much to pay your producers.
Point of Sale
Sometimes customers don't order online, or it takes a while for them to pick up a new habit. You can still log orders for your customers and keep everything in one place.
Easy Order Updates
Track all of your order details in one view. Adjust totals, payments, and create custom order tags to stay organized!
Painless Product Management
Easily track and update all of your products, prices and inventory in one platform. With everything you'd expect in a product management feature, you're able to track packaging, categories, seasonality, and more!
Expertly Managed Inventory
Manage and update your inventory, pricing, product photos and more in one place. With our Advanced Inventory, you’re able to create multiple package sizes and track from one overall inventory pool.
Customized Price Lists
Do you want to offer better prices to your most loyal customers, sell to your community, as a wholesaler? With Local Line, you can create dedicated price lists for your different customer and set specific price adjustments for the products in each catalog.
Seasonal Availability
Keep your offerings in season by setting dates that your products will be available. Choose a start and end date and never worry about selling a product that you don't have in stock.
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.
Enhanced Producer Relationships
Hand-Selected Catalogs
Choose local producers to add to your storefront. Whether you already have a relationship with them, or you discovered them through Local Line, managing catalogs, for you and your producers, is easier than ever.
Complete Inventory Control
Manage your food hub's inventory across all producers and stay stocked for incoming customer orders. Decide which products and which producers are shown in your store at any one time.
Versatile Price Markups
Set your own price adjustments for all the different products in your store. Easily manage your margins and remain profitable. You can markup specific products or bulk adjust an entire catalog. Adjustments can be done by dollar, by percent, or you can set a fixed product price.
Robust Insights Dashboard
Get at-a-glance business insights and generate reports through our Insights 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. Create dashboards that help you understand how and what to sell.
Export Reports
The Insights 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 Builder
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 for your site.
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.
Website Builder
Create a beautiful website for your farm! Easy-to-use drag and drop features allow you to quickly customize your farm's website. Choose from 5 templates, build a logo, and secure a custom domain.
Account Management
Be in control of your account. Get alerted for everything that’s important to you. De-clutter your inbox and customize what you’ll get notified for, and allow access to unlimited users for the different roles in your organization.
Delivery & Routing
Create delivery plans and routes. Set locations, availability, lead times, minimum order amounts, and delivery fees for every order placed.
Ongoing Support
Local Line's best-in-class support will help you get set up quickly and easily and will continually be there to support your business. All of our customers are assigned a dedicated and knowledgeable account manager and we are always ready to help!
Curbside Pickup
Add multiple curbside pickup locations for your customers. Set availability, lead times, minimum order amounts, and pickup fees for every order placed.
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.