Products & Inventory
Making Products More Accessible Using Sliding Scale on GrownBy
Making Products More Accessible Using Sliding Scale on GrownBy GrownBy supports sliding scale/tiers. Read on to learn more about how to set up your standard/a la carte products and shares for sliding scale purchasing. We have a video about making CSA ...
Importing Products Into GrownBy From Other Software
Importing products into GrownBy from another sales platform We have received many requests to import products into GrownBy, and we are happy to assist you with this task. As a note, we generally do not recommend importing customer lists to GrownBy as ...
How Customized Shares Work in GrownBy
Custom Shares New for 2024-2025, GrownBy offers customizable shares for shoppers. For a quick overview of customizable shares, take a look at our FAQ. The following article dives deeper into customizable shares and how to set them up. If you plan to ...
Biweekly Shares
Note: Biweeklies can be complicated to set up in GrownBy! Please reach out to us so that we can talk this through with you! Many farms distribute biweekly, or every other month, either as a means of providing a “smaller” share size to customers, to ...
Bulk Editing - Products
It is possible to edit multiple products at once in the GrownBy dashboard. You may want to take advantage of this feature to speed up your workflows when editing, hiding, or deleting products. You can edit the following fields through bulk editing: ...
Rolling/Unending Subscriptions
GrownBy can support an unending subscription. This article will help you learn how to set up and manage such a subscription. We will walk through some of the foundational decisions that you have to make to determine how best to set it up in GrownBy. ...
Transitioning Your CSA from One Season to the Next
You may ask yourself: What do I do at the end of a year? How do I transition my GrownBy set-up from one season to another? How does the way I set up my GrownBy influence the data I can get from GrownBy in the future? How do I track retention rates ...
How to use GrownBy for different CSA types, including Custom
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share types have evolved significantly over the years and we see many innovations. Farmers use the phrase “CSA” and its framework to describe all kinds of selling strategies. With this chart, we aim to help you ...
Product Inventory Management
Inventory is a required field for standard products and shares. The inventory is automatically adjusted down when a product is sold or up when an order is canceled. You set the original inventory when you're creating the product/share, but you can ...
Offer SNAP Online as a Payment Method for CSA Shares
We know that farmers want to easily accept SNAP benefits for CSA shares and to sell food directly to consumers. Customers also welcome this option. However, due to USDA regulations and the practical difficulty of using SNAP benefits to pay for a ...
Ordering for Future Dates
On GrownBy, the Farm Admin can turn on an option to allow customers to buy from your farm in advance, beyond the date of your next distribution and even for multiple future dates simultaneously. This feature can be used for any order that you’d like ...
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 ...
Selling Meat or Cheese on GrownBy
GrownBy works for selling Meat, Cheese, or other products that are pre-packaged and sold by weight. In this article, we cover a few different ways a Farmer might sell Meat or Cheese on GrownBy, and our suggestions for how to handle different ...
Share Templates
How to use share templates Share templates are a way to group together similar types of shares for CSA farmers. They allow you to offer a variety of shares but streamline how shares appear in reports. Templates must be created BEFORE creating the ...
Create an EBT/SNAP-Eligible Product
If you are not yet certified to accept SNAP Online, please read this article to learn about the certification process and to get started! Your SNAP/EBT customers will only be able to purchase products with their SNAP card that that are listed as ...
Balancing shares in GrownBy 3.0
How to balance bi-weekly or other shares that need to be balanced by location If you offer bi-weekly shares, you may find yourself wanting to balance them to keep distribution numbers equal. Here are some steps in that process Check to see sales per ...
Subscription Payment Configuration and Proration
This article covers the different types of billing options available for subscriptions in GrownBy 3.0. Additionally, it provides details about proration. Billing Options: All shares have the pay-in-full option. If you toggle Pay Monthly or Pay ...
How to Add a Free Share for a CSA Customer
A farm may have donated or free shares, perhaps for site coordinators or community member volunteers, or you want to run a promotion for first time members who receive a free week of produce. You can either create a coupon with a promo code, or if ...
All about Standard Products
Types of products in GrownBy In GrownBy, there are three types of Products: Standard: A product in your shop that is available as a stand-alone item. While Standard products can be ordered for multiple dates simultaneously, they are not a ...
Adding a Share or Subscription
This article will provide detailed info on how to set up a Share in GrownBy. You can view this video with the section on adding shares starting at minute 3:42. What is a share? Shares are products that are sold on a subscription basis. A popular ...