A farmer in a headscarf holds a wooden crate of freshly picked beetroot in a field
For food hubs on Vancouver Island

Online orders for your food hub,
with every farm’s products in one shop.

Sell what your farms grow to households and restaurants. Take wholesale orders, run weekly box subscriptions and plan your deliveries.

No monthly fee. You pay only when you sell.
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Why Local Pass

Why it suits a food hub

  • Built for more than one seller

    Most ordering tools assume a single farm. Here one business can sell products from many farms.

  • Shoppers are already here

    People use Local Pass to order local food, so your products are where they already look.

  • Your farms carry on as they are

    They can keep their stalls and their own restaurant accounts. There’s no exclusivity and no minimum.

Features

Selling, delivery and pickup

  • Sell by weight

    Sell lamb, pork or cheese by the pound or kilo. The customer’s card is held at checkout, and they pay for what the cut actually weighs.

  • A page for every product

    Each product has its own page on Local Pass that people can find on Google.

    See the shops on Local Pass

  • Delivery, shipping and pickup

    Local Pass drivers or your own delivery, plus shipping and pickup points with their own hours.

  • Your units

    Each product carries its own unit and price — by the dozen, the loaf, the bunch or the pound.

  • Soon to Go

    Clear surplus at a discount, with a clearance badge and boosted placement.

  • Chat and reviews

    Answer customers’ questions in chat and reply to their reviews.

  • Wholesale

    Order sheets for restaurants and shops

    You make an order sheet with your prices and give it to your buyers. They send a request. You change anything you can’t supply, then confirm it. The invoice goes out after that.

    • Each line has its own price and unit, like a case, a dozen or a kilo.
    • Make a different sheet for each kind of buyer.
    • Add a password. Until the buyer enters it, they can’t see the sheet.
    • Turn a line off for the week and keep its price.
    • Choose when invoices are due: 7, 15 or 30 days.
    • Set pickup and delivery days, how far ahead buyers must order, and a minimum order.
    An example. A buyer opens a sheet, sends a request, you confirm it, and the invoice goes out. The prices are made up.

  • Producers

    Sell for many farms

    You add each farm to your Producers page and put its name on its products. On localpass.ca, shoppers see “From” and the farm’s name. For each farm, you see what customers bought and what you owe.

    • Pay a farm a share of its sales, or buy from it at a cost price with purchase orders.
    • Each farm gets a statement.
    • When you pay a farm, record it and the balance updates.
    • Farms don’t need a Local Pass account.
    An example. Three farms’ sales this month, what you owe each one, and a payment recorded. The farms and amounts are made up.

  • Subscriptions

    Weekly box subscriptions

    Members pay by card and look after their own weeks: they can skip, swap items or pause. Each week’s boxes show up in your orders, ready to pack.

    • Weekly or every two weeks, paid each week or for the whole season.
    • See what to harvest and pack for each pickup site and for delivery.
    • Home deliveries go on your delivery routes.
    • Move the members you already have over with a spreadsheet.
    How subscriptions work
    business.localpass.ca/csa
    Recorded on a demo farm. This week’s boxes, who skipped, and what you’ll be paid.

  • Delivery routes

    Plan a day’s deliveries

    Add your vans, then press one button. Each van gets its stops in order, for shop orders, wholesale drops and subscription deliveries. Your drivers follow the route in the Local Pass app. Customers get a message when the driver sets off, and another when they’re next.

    • Each van’s load limit, driver hours and lunch break are respected.
    • Frozen food goes on your refrigerated vans.
    • The driver app works on iPhone now. Android is coming soon.
    An example of one day. Each van gets its stops in order, and customers get a message when the driver sets off and when they’re next. The stops are made up.

Beyond the app

Sell on your own website too

You can sell on your own website and on Local Pass at the same time.

  • An order button, or your whole shop

    Paste an order button, your whole shop or a few products into your website. Customers check out on Local Pass.

  • One place for the orders

    Orders from your website and from the app arrive together, from one set of products and stock.

  • A button for your subscription box

    Add a button to your website that opens your weekly box on Local Pass, where people sign up.

The business app

Packing, stock and payouts

Every tool is included — no plans to upgrade and no add-ons to buy.

  • Live orders

    Accept, decline and manage incoming orders in real time on your phone or tablet.

  • Fulfilment calendar

    Orders laid out by pickup and delivery date and flagged when due soon or overdue; customers get an email at each step.

  • Scan to pick

    Scan each item as you pack an order — with your phone’s camera or a barcode scanner — so nothing gets missed.

  • Pack lists and labels

    Print a pack list for your orders and an address label for every box.

  • Live stock counts

    Stock drops with every sale and low stock is flagged; a product stops selling when you run out.

  • Spreadsheet import

    Bring your whole catalogue in from a CSV file, and edit many products at once.

  • Daily payouts

    Earnings go to your bank automatically every day, with statements and a sales-tax report ready to download.

  • Sales insights

    Sales, top products and top customers, compared with the previous period.

An example. Orders by day, the pack list for Friday, and an address label. The orders and the address are made up.

Compare

How Local Pass compares for a food hub

Local Line and Local Food Marketplace charge a monthly plan to run your own hub store. Local Pass has no monthly fee, and people on Vancouver Island already order local food on it.

Compare Local Pass with

Local Pass

  • Cost

    No monthly fee or add-ons. A fee on each sale, so nothing in a month with no sales

  • Sell for many farms, each one named

    Yes. Each product shows its farm on localpass.ca

  • Farms manage their own products

    Coming soon. For now you add each farm’s products, and farms need no account

  • Paying your farms

    A running account and a statement for each farm. You pay the farm and record it

  • Wholesale for restaurants and shops

    Order sheets for each kind of buyer. You confirm before anything is invoiced

  • Subscriptions

    Yes, included. Weekly or every two weeks, paid each week or by the season

  • Route planning for your own vans

    Included. One button plans every van’s day, and your drivers follow it in the Local Pass app

  • Sell together with other hubs, farms and businesses

    Coming soon

  • Shoppers already on the platform

    Households and restaurants on Vancouver Island

  • An accounting connection

    Coming soon

  • Based in

    Victoria, BC

How it works

Three steps to your first hub order

  1. 1

    Tell us about your hub

    Which farms you sell for, what you sell and how you deliver today. Use the form below.

  2. 2

    Add your farms and products

    There’s no setup fee. We help you add your products, put the farm’s name on each one and set up your vans.

  3. 3

    Start taking orders

    Send your link to households and restaurants. Orders come in, and you pack and deliver them.

Get started

Apply to join

Tell us about your business and we'll be in touch within one business day.

Based outside Vancouver Island? Apply anyway and tell us where you are. We’re starting here, and we want to hear from you.

What do you sell?

Ready to set up on your own? Create your business account

Dmitriy Kuleshov

Co-founder of Local Pass

Rather talk first?

Tell me which farms you sell for, how you take orders and how you deliver today — and I’ll show you how it would run on Local Pass.

FAQ

What food hubs ask first

What counts as a food hub on Local Pass?

A business that sells food from several farms or makers. That includes regional hubs, co-ops and box businesses that buy from neighbouring farms. You are the seller, and each product names its farm.

Do the farms I sell for need their own Local Pass accounts?

No. You add each farm to your Producers page and name it on its products. A farm that wants to sell on its own can open its own business on Local Pass too.

How do I pay the farms I sell for?

For each farm, you choose a share of its sales, or you buy its products at a cost price with purchase orders. Local Pass pays you. The Producers page keeps a running account and a statement for each farm, and you record what you pay.

Can I sell to restaurants and to households from the same stock?

Yes. Households order from your business page, and restaurants order from a wholesale order sheet. Both use the same products and stock.

Do my drivers need a separate app?

No. They use the Local Pass app, in a mode made for your business. They see the route one stop at a time, with each order’s items and notes. It works on iPhone now, and Android is coming soon.

How does Local Pass compare with software for running a food hub?

Local Line and Local Food Marketplace charge a monthly plan to run your own hub store, and bringing the shoppers is up to you. Local Pass has no monthly fee, and people on Vancouver Island already order local food on it.

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