Eggs is a tool to help small meat farms manage their community supported agriculture programs (CSAs).
- Have centralized pickups (rather than direct deliveries to customers)
- Accept orders for products which only have an estimated price until they are weighed (such as chickens and cuts of beef)
- Let members “top up” and carry a balance from month to month, from which their final order total is deducted after weighing.
- Don’t require a monthly commitment
- Have a single flat-rate product, such as a fruit or veggie box
- Need automatically recurring billing or orders
- Require a monthly commitment
- Join a CSA for a specific farm
- Submit an order for any open delivery
- Edit or cancel their order up until the delivery closes for orders
- View their balance and any previous transactions
- Receive a customized email once their order is finalized (weighed and priced) with the final total and any amount due.
- Manage members
- Enter transactions for a member’s balance (debits/credits)
- Manage products which the farm offers
- Create a delivery with available inventory (total available and per-person maximums)
- Define available pickup locations
- Accept orders and view inventory status
- Print bag/box labels and packing lists for farm use
- Export delivery data
- Email members
Eggs has been rolled out to two farms, but a lot of things are still missing UI pieces and all features are built specifically for those two farms – a more general use case will require some tweaking, at the very least.
We have a bunch more features in the works, including PayPal integration. I’d love some help, so please contact me if you’re interested: kathryn@kathrynaaker.com
It’s released under the MIT license, so use freely!
- Bonnie Powell, the intrepid manager of Soul Food Farm and Clark Summit Farm CSA programs, who inspired and guided the project.
- Alon Salant, for much mentoring and help with importing
- Arena Reed, for some early UI sketching and brainstorming
- Sarah Allen, for teaching me this stuff in the first place!