Simple steps to start your OFN journey
Simple steps to start your OFN journey as a SHOP
It's easy to get started on OFN, just follow the steps below:
Register your enterprise. Choose the 'Producer' and then 'Shop' package types and complete your enterprise settings with your business details.
List your products.
Set up a choice of payment methods available to your customers (cash on delivery, credit card online payment, etc.)
Set up a choice of shipping options available to your customers ('click and collect' service with a pick up time and location, home delivery, ...)
Set up an order cycle: this will open your shop at the start date you defined!
Congratulations! Your shop is now live!
When you start receiving orders, you can manage them in the orders section.
All the data you need to prepare and deliver the groceries to your customers can be found in the reports section.
Your enterprise profile:
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. Give them permission to sell your products.
Your products:
Specify special credentials 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 variants.
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 how to do this here.
You can import all your product listings at once if they are in an Excel spread sheet.
Your shopfront:
You can restrict access 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 customer grouping (through "tags") and custom display and pricing.
If you would like to be visible on OFN only but not actually sell goods through the platform then you can setup a display only shopfront.
Simple steps to start your OFN journey as a HUB
It's easy to get started on OFN, just follow the steps below:
Register your enterprise. If you wish to sell goods that you make as well as those of others then choose the 'Producer' and then 'Hub' package types; whereas, if you only want to sell goods made by others then choose the 'Non-Producer' and 'Hub' package options. Complete your enterprise settings with your business details.
List your products. If you are a 'Producer Hub' then make (or import) product listings for the goods you make yourself. For both 'Producer' and 'Non-Producer' hubs, contact local OFN enterprises who want their goods to be displayed on your shop front. Ask them to set up Enterprise permissions to connect their business to yours through OFN.
Set up a choice of payment methods available to your customers (cash on delivery, credit card online payment, etc.)
Set up a choice of shipping options available to your customers ('click and collect' service with a pick up time and location, home delivery, etc...)
Set up an order cycle: this will open your shop at the start date you defined. An order cycle is a period during which shoppers can place orders for collection or delivery at a particular time. Some enterprises have a weekly order cycle. Some have a permanently open order cycle.
Congratulations! Your shop is now live!
To earn a little revenue to cover the cost of organising sales you may like to add an 'Enterprise Fee'- this mark-up is added to the selling price of products on your shopfront.
When you start receiving orders, you can manage them in the orders section.
All the data you need to prepare and deliver the groceries to your customers can be found in the reports section.
Your enterprise profile:
As a Producer Hub you can give other local hubs permission to sell your products on their shopfront as well as your own.
You may wish to add hub managers so that no one person has to do all the admin!
Your products (Producer Hub only):
Specify special credentials they may have (eg. organic, plastic free, etc...)
If you have a product which can be sold in different forms (eg. potatoes sold in 500g, 1kg and 2kg quantities) then you can simplify your listings by adding variants.
If you sell irregular items like meat or vegetables (eg. a whole chicken, a large pumpkin) which are priced by weight then you can learn how to do this here.
You can import all of your product listings at once if they are in an Excel spreadsheet.
Your shopfront:
You can restrict access to your shop if 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 customer grouping (through "tags") and custom display and pricing.
If you would like to be visible on OFN only but not actually sell goods through the platform then you can setup a display only shopfront.
Simple steps to get started as a OFN profile.
It's easy to get started on OFN, just follow the steps below:
Register your enterprise. Choose the 'Producer' and then 'Profile' package types and complete your enterprise settings with your business details.
List your products.
Get in contact with OFN hubs through which you would like to sell your products - this might be as simple as talking to the hub manager when collecting your shopping or sending them an email.
Connect through OFN to the hub where you would like your goods to be sold by setting up the appropriate enterprise permissions.
Congratulations! Your job is done!
The hub managing your sales should periodically send you orders based on the time scales you agreed. Order notifications can be automated by the Hub to get to you by email.
If you want to use OFN to be visible on the internet only then there is no need to complete steps 2-4 above.
You can make your producer profile searchable by product category, even if you don't wish to actually sell goods, by following these steps.
Your products:
Specify special credentials they may have (e.g. organic, plastic free...)
If you have a product which can be sold in different forms (e.g. potatoes sold in 500g, 1kg and 2kg quantities) then you can simplify your listings by adding variants.
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 how to do this here.
You can import all your product listings at once if they are in an Excel spreadsheet.
How to set up a Farmer's Market online
Farmers’ Markets have the option to setup as a group of individually managed shops (Option 1) or as a centrally managed hub (Option 2).
Contact each vendor at your Farmer's Market and ask them to set up a shop for their produce. You may wish to give them a link to this quick start guide.
Contact your local OFN support team and ask for them to set up a group for your farmer's market.
Once your Farmer's Market Group has been created you will be able to manage its content
As overall manager of your Farmer's market, follow this quick start guide to setting up a Hub on the OFN platform.
Individual suppliers to your market should follow this guide to setting up as Profiles on the OFN platform.
