Shares
How Customized Shares Work in GrownBy
Custom Shares New for 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 use ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...