Software designed for food

The Open Food Network software platform allows farmers to sell produce online, at a price that works for them. It has been built specifically for selling food so it can handle tricky measures or stock levels that only food has – a dozen eggs, a bunch of parsley, and a whole chicken that varies in weight, anyone?

Easy and affordable to get started

There are no upfront costs and affordable membership fees only apply to monthly revenue of $500 or more which means you can start where you are and get setup quickly.

Great customer support

Our dedicated customer support team is embedded in your food system and understands your needs. We are here to help.

Collaboration made easy

It’s a great shopfront to sell food through as an individual enterprise, but where it really gets exciting is when there’s a community of farmers working together.

Food producers can create an online shop, collect payments, and sell through other shops on the platform. Wholesalers can integrate with existing systems, manage buying groups and supply your produce through national or regional networks of food hubs and shops. Communities can bring together producers in your area to create a virtual farmers’ market, building a resilient local food economy.

People have used the power of this platform to create food collectives, manage food hub stock, or to take their farmers’ market online with pre-purchases to give stallholders more secure sales.

Maintain transparency and demonstrate good practice

Our platform makes it easy to connect with your network and sell your products on another shopfront and vice versa while maintaining transparency and control over produce and income.

Shoppers can get to know their producers and food hubs, learn about farming and enterprise practices, social objectives and see their money supporting local livelihoods.

Open source for a better food system

And what’s just as important as the software itself, are the values that underpin it. If you’re trying to build a new food system – as a farmer, farmers’ market, or food hub – then why would you choose software that isn’t also contributing to a fairer food system? By working collectively rather than competitively, we share the costs of developing new software, and we ensure that our project is more resilient than the many other proprietary models that have fallen over since we started!

Community supported software

Open Food Network is community supported software. We exist to support community food enterprises, and we are a not-for-profit organisation working to build a better food system. Our community members are our partners in this work. Check out how our pricing works and choose your membership level.

Open Food Ecosystem offers tech solutions designed to transform the efficiency of your local food enterprises. Seamless integrations can now connect to the Open Food Network platform (and beyond), streamlining operations and fostering increased collaboration through dashboards and individual integrations.

Dashboards offer a comprehensive, automated, all-in-one experience to simplify your specific business operations. With easy access to all your order, customer, and product information, you can streamline processes, increase real-time data analysis, and simplify supplier payments and GST calculations. This automation and analysis tool integrates seamlessly with the Open Food Network platform, providing up-to-date information at a glance. Plus, you can save time with hassle-free customer communications, easily manage product listings, and streamline order and producer communications.

Our platform also offers individual integrations to improve your day-to-day operations and streamline workflows. These tools integrate with existing systems, making it easy to manage and track orders, customers, and products in real time.

Open Food Ecosystem is a breakthrough suite of tech solutions that can empower your enterprise with the tools you need to thrive. We want to work with you to streamline your business operations, so you can focus on what matters most.