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
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