Buying Group – OFN Setup Process
The hub set-up guide walks through the basic elements of setting up a buying group on the OFN. ‘Hub’ is a broad term used at the OFN to refer to different models that aggregate and sell source identified food. The hub setup guide applies to many different ‘hub’ models, including buying groups, so be aware that some features covered will be less relevant. As well as working through the hub setup guide, check out some of the Advanced Features which are relevant to buying groups:
- The group buy tool makes it easier for buying groups to make decisions about purchasing stock which comes in bulk sizes like 10kg boxes of bananas, or 12 bottle crates of milk. Each customer can indicate their preferred order quantity at checkout, but also the maximum amount they would be happy to buy if the group needs more orders to reach the minimum bulk order size.
- A Buying Group will often have many different people who are responsible for different parts of administering the shop. You can have multiple managers of your OFN profile and shopfront.
- Make your shopfront private so new members must be approved before they can shop with you.
- Boost the transparency of your shopfront with product properties .
Features in the pipeline:
- Granting discounts to certain customers such as members or volunteers (COMING SOON).
- Creating standing, recurring orders (COMING SOON)
- Bulk upload of products (COMING SOON)
- Stored payment options/wallets (COMING SOON)