Grow Your Local Food Business

Whether you're a farm, farmshop, farmers market, food hub, specialty store, or food cooperative - expand your reach, grow your customer base, and strengthen your local food network.

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Common Challenges for Small Food Businesses

Supplier coordination chaos

Tired of supplier coordination chaos?

How nearhive helps

  • Unified supplier network management
  • Automated scheduling and coordination
  • Centralised payment processing
  • Real-time delivery tracking
Local sourcing access

Struggling to find local suppliers?

How nearhive helps

  • Local producer discovery network
  • Verified supplier profiles
  • Seasonal availability calendars
  • Quality and certification tracking
Profit margins optimization

Want to maximise your profits?

How nearhive helps

  • Intelligent pricing analytics
  • Product mix optimisation
  • Customer segment analysis
  • Profit margin tracking
Shop space optimization

Is your shop space underperforming?

How nearhive helps

  • Collection point setup
  • Virtual product expansion
  • Space optimisation analytics
  • Revenue per square foot tracking
Ecommerce platform limitations

Tired of ecommerce platforms that can't handle real food retail?

How nearhive helps

  • Sell by actual weight pricing
  • Product variants management
  • Bulk product management
  • Fresh food inventory handling

Complete Platform Features

Order Management

Streamline order processing with automated workflows, real-time tracking, and intelligent order routing for maximum efficiency.

Supplier Management

Centralise all supplier relationships, manage contracts, track performance, and coordinate deliveries from one unified platform.

Subscription Boxes

Create and manage recurring subscription boxes with customisable contents, automated billing, and member preference tracking.

Picking

Optimise warehouse operations with intelligent picking routes, barcode scanning, and real-time inventory updates.

Collection Hub

Transform your location into a collection point, expand product range without inventory, and increase customer footfall.

Delivery

Coordinate efficient delivery routes, track shipments in real-time, and provide customers with accurate delivery updates.

Sell by Weight

Handle variable-weight products, loose produce, variants, and bulk dispensing with accurate pricing based on actual weights.

Product Variants

Manage complex product variations like different cuts, sizes, ripeness levels, and organic vs conventional options effortlessly.

Customer Management

Build stronger relationships with detailed customer profiles, purchase history, preferences, and personalised communication tools.

Mobile App

Manage your business on-the-go with our mobile app featuring real-time notifications, inventory updates, and order management.

Communication Tools

Keep customers informed with automated notifications, newsletters, product availability alerts, and community announcements.

Sustainability Tracking

Monitor and report on environmental impact with carbon footprint tracking, local sourcing metrics, and sustainability reporting.

Specialised Tools for Food Hubs & CSAs

Community-supported agriculture and food hubs need specialised features to manage member relationships, coordinate weekly distributions, and build group purchasing power.

Weekly Order Cycles

Automate weekly ordering with member preferences and seasonal availability

Group Buying Power

Coordinate bulk purchases from producers to reduce costs for everyone

Smart Box Picking

Optimise produce box contents based on harvest, preferences, and nutrition

Excess Food Collection

Collection of excess food from partners made easy. This helps them plan better their inventory and maximises their effectiveness

"With our pilot with nearhive, we acquired new customers near our village and reduced an average of 6.57 Kg of CO2 emissions in our daily route"

nearhive has transformed the way we manage our farm operations, making it efficient and effective.

Liz Genever
Small-Scale Farmer

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