Digital Products
On GrownBy, there are three types of Products: Standard, Subscription, and Digital. There is also a specific Digital Product for Farm Credit. This article covers Digital Products and their uses.
You might want to use a Digital Product if:
- You want your Customers to be able to make a donation directly from your Shop
- You want to sell Farm Credit that Customers can later use to purchase from you (Farm Credit is a specific type of Digital Product)
- You want to charge a Membership Fee or Site Fee to your Customers
- You want to sell tickets to events (you can alternatively use a Standard Product to do this)
Creating a Digital Product
In the Products menu of your Dashboard, click Add new product:
Then, click Standard or Digital Product:
On the next screen, choose between a Digital-Only Product and Farm Credit. The Farm Credit option should only be used if you intend to allow your Customers to purchase from you using Farm Credit/Declining Balance, etc. Note: Once you have added a Farm Credit Product, you will no longer see this option in this view of “add new product” since you can only have one per farm. You can edit the Farm Credit product from your Products Page.
The “Add New Product” page looks like:
The following screenshots focus on Digital-Only Products. If you’re interested in Farm Credit, scroll down to that section below.
After clicking Digital-Only Product, input the basic information for your Product, including an image. The Short Description will appear as a subtitle to the Product Name in your shop. The Long Description is to add more detail about the Product. In the case of our example, we used the long text to explain that the farm is raising money to subsidize shares. The Category selector will affect the section of your Shop in which the Product appears. In this example, we made a separate category called Donation. You can also choose to make the Product only appear on CSA pages. This is useful if you are creating a Product, like a Membership or Site Fee (example below) that is only relevant to CSA Customers. (In this case, it’s also helpful to add the Membership or Site Fee as a Suggested Product to your CSA Group, which will trigger GrownBy to suggest it to customers when they buy a share.)
The editing page for a Digital Product looks like this:
You will next enter a Unit (in this example we added Dollars). Cost Per Unit represents a cost to you or a cost of production. It is likely not relevant to a Digital Product and you can leave it blank. For In Stock you can enter any large number to make sure the Product will be available. You can always edit this In Stock amount later.
Under Buying Options and Prices, enter the names you’d like to appear in the Shop for the buying option. Examples: 1 pound bag, 1 quart, 4 ounces, 1 bunch, etc. You can add as many Buying Options and Prices as you need. To add more, click the Add buying option button.
When you’re done, click Submit at the top right of the screen.
These pages look like this:
On the Customer’s side, the Product Buying Options appear as a pop-up when they add the Product to their cart. It looks like this:
They can also click into the Product which will give them a different display of the same information, including the full Long Description. It looks like this: 
Membership and Site Fees as Digital Products
Another use for Digital Products is to charge fees to your Customers. You can also add fees via Taxes & Fees. In this example, Hearty Roots Community Farm is using this feature for a specific location:
If Customers forget to place this Product in their carts, you can charge their card on file for it later on. If you are using a Digital Product in this way, you may want to toggle the selector which says “Only show on CSA pages” so it does not confuse other Customers.
Farm Credit
Farm Credit can be purchased by the Customer in your Shop or added by the Farm Admin in the Dashboard. The process of adding Farm Credit is very similar to adding other Products but with fewer options in the Editing screen. The Local Currency is the default Unit. The Editing page looks like this:
In the Shop, Farm Credit looks like this:
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact [email protected] or schedule a time to talk with us here!
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