We offer our typical products to those who have chosen to emigrate abroad, as well as to residents. Our primary objective is the formation of Buying Groups Abroad, in order to optimize transport.
E-circles.org is the Circular Marketplace
where you can buy and sell quality products, respectful of the environment and workers' rights. Promote and Sell your products efficiently, optimizing transport, reducing advertising costs
and eliminating waste.
Whether you are a private individual, an entrepreneur or are part of an association, E-circles can offer you some useful services. Let's see in detail what these services are and how to obtain them:
Get to know personally the producers of the food and other products you buy and new people who share with you the sensitivity regarding health, environmental and ethical issues
Use the solidarity spending method to help families in financial difficulty
Non-profit Associations can collect donations in exchange for products
If you run a business you can
Sell your products to Buying Groups or to individual users through E-commerce
Offer your services to companies and private users
Make your company visible online and promote it in Italy or abroad
Receive requests for information or quotes from users, buying groups or other companies
Describe your company in the best possible way, highlighting its ethics in the treatment of employees, your path of ecological transition and social equality
Describe your products in the best possible way, specifying their production methods, organic or territorial certificates and the origin of the ingredients
Selling products by weight, receiving electronic payment after weighing
Share production waste with other companies
IT support for the creation and management of business and cooperative networks
Receive consultancy for participation in regional and European calls
We start with individuals and/or companies strongly motivated to implement a new development model in their territory.
The ecological transition takes place in small, self-sustaining steps from a financial point of view, thanks to new models of Cooperative.
Here is a summary of how our project on the Territories develops, in seven steps:
Business digitization: we provide producers and shops with a web page and a free E-commerce to allow them to better tell themselves and
promote and sell products online
Formation of Social Purchasing Groups: we provide the tools to form a Social Purchasing Group that allows to buy together from local
companies, shortening the supply chain and reducing CO2 and pollution
Formation of Business Networks: companies are stronger if they collaborate with each other. The most digital entrepreneurs can help
the less able to promote and sell their products together. This makes the offer more varied and interesting and allows to optimize transport
Formation of Buying Groups: once a certain number of users is reached, the Purchasing Group withdrawal point can evolve into
a shop, and a cooperative is formed between companies and buyers
Evolution to Circular Coops: the store adds new eco-friendly services such as the sale of bulk products, the
reuse of packaging, the use of renewable energy, the super-differentiated collection of some types of waste, the training of people and the creation
in the field of forgotten professions (cobblers, tailors, repairs of technological tools, etc.)
Transition towards Circular Communities: thanks to the presence of the Circular Coops and our promotional activity, we will make
aware an increasing number of people and companies of the principles of the Circular Economy. We will propose new solutions to local institutions in the field of
waste, energy, transport, etc. and we will participate in their realization
Circular Europe: a network of Circular Territories is formed which can collaborate with each other in planning and
construction of new eco-compatible infrastructures
E-circles also includes the most complete management software for Buying Groups, developed starting from the experience
of foodcoopers who love to make things simply. You can choose between payment on delivery, or by electronic payments.
Advantages for Buying Groups
Direct relationship with producers, no commission on purchases
It simplifies collection of orders and management of withdrawal points
You can communicate with all food coops members and producers
It automates hospitality, logistics, cash and volunteer management
Tools for Buying Groups
Order of products by manufacturer or by category, with images and rich descriptions
Price lists always updated directly from manufacturers and customizable
Shipments Tracking
Management of internal lists, for exclusive use of own Buying Group
Welcome Group to contact and inform the new members
Organization of home delivery
Quality Group for Internal Certification of Producers
Management of shareholders and payment of membership fees
Collecting orders from individual referrals or pickup points
Automatic opening and closing of orders, at intervals or programmed
Management of volunteer shifts with specific job assignments
Packages completion mode
Simple internal communication management through notifications
Sending automatic notifications an hour before product withdrawal
Restore capability of the already archived orders
Ability to delegate orders or to order for someone else
Possibility to order products to be donated to the Solidarity Spending project
An internal notice-board for quick communications
Real-time chat with the staff for quick troubleshooting
History of orders, volunteer turns and statistics
Advantages for the Producer
Sell your products to Foodcoops and Purchasing Groups
Simple management of pricelists, orders and inventory
Sell your products online with the utmost simplicity
Promote your company in Italy and abroad
Tools for the Producer
Business page with a free E-Commerce
Quick pricelist management from one page only
Warehouse management, packages, minimum order quantities
Customization of sales, delivery, payment methods
Automatic compilation of custom excel order forms
Possibility to contact Food Coops
Change in amounts for products sold by weight
Possibility of receiving contacts from customers and quotation requests
Possibility to tell the good practices of Circular Economy and Biological Transition