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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  1. Quick Start Guides

Shop

Simple steps to start your OFN journey as a SHOP

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It's easy to get started on OFN, just follow the steps below:

  1. . Choose the 'Producer' and then 'Shop' and complete your with your business details.

  2. List your .

  3. Set up a choice of available to your customers (cash on delivery, credit card online payment, etc.)

  4. Set up a choice of available to your customers ('click and collect' service with a pick up time and location, home delivery, ...)

  5. Set up an : this will open your shop at the start date you defined!

Congratulations! Your shop is now live!

More advanced features you might need

  • Your enterprise profile:

  • Your products:

  • Your shopfront:

When you start receiving orders, you can manage them in the section.

All the data you need to prepare and deliver the groceries to your customers can be found in the section.

On top of selling your products, you may want to allow another seller using the OFN (a local OFN hub) to display your products in their shopfront. .

Specify special they may have (e.g. organic, plastic free...)

If you have a product that can be sold in different forms (eg. potatoes sold in 500g, 1kg and 2 kg quantities) then you can simplify your listings by adding .

If you sell irregular items like meat or vegetables (e.g. a whole chicken, a large pumpkin) which are priced by weight then you can learn

You can all your product listings at once if they are in an Excel spread sheet.

You can to your shop if you want your shop to only be accessible to "members" or invited customers. For example, you may offer discounted produce to members of the community who have all contributed to your business, or if you wished to only sell to specific commercial customers.

You can offer different prices, or display different goods, to specific groups of customers using and .

If you would like to be visible on OFN only but not actually sell goods through the platform then you can setup a .

orders
reports
Give them permission to sell your products
credentials
variants
how to do this here.
restrict access
customer grouping (through "tags")
custom display and pricing
display only shopfront
Register your enterprise
package types
enterprise settings
products
payment methods
shipping options
order cycle
Five steps to opening your OFN shop.
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