Buying Groups

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