OFN User Guide
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  • Welcome to the OFN User Guide
  • Local OFN organisations and contacts
  • Where does my business fit in OFN?
  • Quick Start Guides
    • Hub
    • Shop
    • Profile
    • Digital Farmer's Markets
  • Features
    • Register and Create an Enterprise Account
    • Dashboard
    • Enterprise profile
      • Package / profile types
      • Enterprise Settings
      • Create or connect with your supplying producers
      • Making a producer profile searchable by product category
      • Enterprise Permissions
      • Change Profile Managers/Owners
    • Products
      • Add products
      • Product variants
      • Product properties
      • Pricing meat & other 'complete' products of unknown weight
      • Inventory tool
      • Group Buy - for bulk ordering
      • Product and Inventory import
    • Shopfront
      • Shipping Methods
      • Payment Methods
      • Enterprise Fees
      • Order cycles
        • Order Cycles (for Hubs)
        • Order Cycles (for Shops)
        • Opening more than one order cycle
        • Permissions in multi-enterprise order cycles
      • Customer management and conditional displays/prices
        • Customer Management
        • Tags and Tag Rules
      • Vouchers
      • Private shopfront
      • White Label shopfront
      • Display only shopfront
    • Orders
      • Manage Orders
      • Create orders manually
      • Refunds and Adjusting Payments
    • Subscriptions
      • Configuration
      • Subscriptions - Creating & Managing orders
      • Subscriptions - the customer's perspective
      • Subscriptions - FAQs
    • Reports
      • General tips
      • Order Reports
      • Reports for Bulk Order Management
      • Reports for Hub Management
      • Packing Reports
      • Payment Reports
      • Tax Reports
      • OFN Invoices
      • Xero Invoices
    • Groups
      • Create and manage a Group page
    • API
  • Hub management tips
    • How To's
      • Delete an Enterprise
      • Soft Close an Order Cycle
      • Open your Shop on 'Preview'
      • Customise your shop appearance
      • Take orders on Credit
      • Vouchers v. tags
      • Early Shopping 'Hour' for Priority Groups
      • Discounted/Free Delivery for Vulnerable Customers
      • Cash/EFTs for trusted customers only
      • Reward your volunteers
      • Running a Social Media Promotion
      • How to Create Gift Vouchers
    • Marketing Tips
    • Social Media
  • Complementary software and tools
    • Newsletters & Promotional Emails
    • Accounting and Invoicing Packages
      • Paying suppliers with ABA files (Australia)
    • API
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Glossary of OFN Terms
  • Shopping with Open Food Network
    • About Open Food Network
    • How to find an online food shop near you
    • Shopping and Placing an Order
    • The people & businesses who make your food
    • Your OFN account
    • Subscription Orders
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Feedback
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Open your Shop on 'Preview'

PrécédentSoft Close an Order CycleSuivantCustomise your shop appearance

This functionality is best achieved using the feature of the platform.

Introduction

As a hub manager you may often be asked by your suppliers to see what their products look like on your shop front before the order cycle goes 'live' to customers. Suppliers may wish to tweak their listings- change a photo or add to their product descriptions for example. This is especially common in the early days (weeks and months) of a new hub.

The process below outlines how to implement a 'Preview' Order Cycle. It draws on the highly flexible feature of Tag and Tag Rules on the OFN platform.

Your enterprise will need to be listed as a Hub on the OFN platform to add a tag to order cycles.

Process

This is a TWO step process:

  1. Opening an Order Cycle which only you and suppliers can view.

  2. Removing the tag which facilitates (1) when the order cycle goes 'live' to customers.

Step one

  • Login to your business OFN account and visit page.

  • Click + New Customer and add the email addresses of your suppliers. (If they have placed an order with your shop/hub in the past then they will already be a customer of your enterprise and so this step is not necessary.)

  • In the ‘tags’ column type in ‘producer’ for that customer.

  • On page 3 (‘Outgoing Products’) add ‘preview’ into the tag section:

Bingo! Your order cycle is now open for your producers to view their products on your shop front but general customers will not be able to view (or shop).

Producers/suppliers can make purchases during this time

Step Two

  • Set a reminder on your phone/calendar to edit your order cycles at the time and day you wish shopping to commence.

  • Visit ‘Outgoing Products’ section on page 3 and remove the tag:

All your customers will be able to view your shop and make purchases now!

Visit your page.

Set up your next . Set the opening time as ‘now’ and the closing time your usual closing time.

Visit your Enterprise -> Settings page and select ‘’ from the left hand menu. Set up the following Tag rules: Default: Order Cycles tagged ‘preview’ are not visible. For Customers tagged ‘producer’, Order Cycles tagged ‘preview’ are visible.

At this time visit your and select ‘Edit’ next to the one you wish to make ‘live’ to customers:

Order Cycles
order cycle
order cycles
Tags and Tag Rules
Customers
Tag Rules