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OFN NZ is designed to make your local food project more viable, easier to run and more convenient for customers.

Food Hubs on the Open Food Network can choose to sell their own produce and the produce of other producers. This could be a farm, CSA or box scheme that would like to include other products within your distribution, and allow customers to easily choose their options and replacements. It could be a farmers market that wants to allow customers to pre-order online. It could be a local shop that wants to have an online presence. Or a wholesaler or procurement enterprise. Maybe you just want to start a local buyers group. The Open Food Network is flexible with a lot of configuration to suit the way you and your community want to source your food.

We're creating a service that is reliable and affordable, and this does have costs. But we also want OFN NZ to be as affordable and accessible as possible to as many groups and organisations that want to use it. OFN is a platform cooperative. This means that people who use the service pay to help cover the running costs of the platform in line with a) the value they receive from the service and b) their ability to pay. This way as OFN helps your enterprise to grow you are invited to pay to support OFN in encouraging new food enterprises.

If you'd like to discuss how OFN could work for your local food enterprise please get in touch: [email protected]

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We ask that people who use the service pay to help cover the running costs of the platform in line with the value you receive from the service and your ability to pay.

This way as OFN helps your enterprise to grow you are invited to pay to support OFN in encouraging new food enterprises. Other Services

These fees enable OFN to provide users with access to all online resources, forums and a weekly webinar that gives the opportunity to ask questions directly of the OFN support team. However we know that often some one to one support is really helpful. OFN UK offers the following additional services:

Community Facilitation:: Expert facilitators will help guide your group to understand the most appropriate local food project for your needs. Maybe this is a community shop, a farmers' market with pre-ordering, a food hub, a buyers group, community supported agriculture or something new. We can help communities understand their needs and assess their existing assets to work out how OFN might best fit you.
Bespoke Training and Support:: Our team can help set your local food project up on OFN and train producers, managers and consumers on how to use the software. Better yet, we can train the trainers, so that individuals have the skills they need to train all your users in the future.
Bespoke Development:: Need your data imported or a new piece of functionality implemented so that OFN works for your project? The global OFN team might already be on the case, and if not we can work to get the features you need available.

For more detail please contact [email protected]

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Enterprise Accounts

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