Red Shirt FarmRed Shirt FarmLanesborough, Massachusetts
Prepared by Farmhand for Jim and the Red Shirt crew

No box. No pickup day.No looking up balances.

About 150 members spend their CSA in the store, by name, any day you’re open. Here’s how Farmhand would run the account behind that counter: sign-up, payment, a balance every member can see, and your preorders, with your site and your voice left as they are.

Vegetables at Red Shirt Farm Market

Your name at the register, with the balance right there

Today a member gives their name and someone looks up what’s left. On Farmhand, the counter rings their vegetables up against their account, and they can check their own balance any time. Old Souls Farm in Oregon runs its walk-up counter this way now. These are real Farmhand screens.

  • At the counterFind the member, add what they picked, and the credit comes off. Their usual is one click.
  • Their balanceMembers see what’s left in their own account, any day.
  • Their householdAnyone they send can use it, and a partner can get the same emails and texts.
  • What it coversCSA credit covers what you grow. Bread, milk and bought-in produce are paid the usual way.
Order cost breakdown with plan credit applied and credit remaining
Credit applied at the counter, with what’s left. Old Souls Farm.
Add items dialog with the Quick add list of top sellers
A member’s usual in one click
Credit balance table on the member payment page
What members see: their balance
Notifications tab on a contact for adding household members
A partner on the same account’s emails and texts

A tablet checkout for the counter itself is in design. Your Square register keeps running for everything else in the store.

Sign-up and payment in one step

Right now it’s a form, then a separate payment page where Square adds 3% to a card, then a confirmation you send by hand. On Farmhand a member picks a share, pays 10% less, and gets their confirmation and start date on their own.

  • Your four levels$360 buys $400, on up to $900 for $1,000, the way you price it now.
  • Two start datesEarly members start February 1, late members when the main harvest comes in. Your late window is open through February 28.
  • Card or bankEach payment method can carry its own fee, so paying by bank can cost members 1% instead of 3%.
  • Share the BountyReduced-cost members join with a code, or you start them with credit yourself.
CSA signup with Bank Account selected and a 1% fee in the invoice summary
Bank payment with its own 1% fee. Stagl Organics.
Checkout with two plans on one invoice
One sign-up, one invoice
Coupon row on a subscription with an Edit action
A code for Share the Bounty members
Initial account credits field on the Create Subscription form
Start a member with credit yourself

Fish, hogs, turkeys and the plant sale, ordered ahead

Your banner says fish preorders close Monday at midnight. On Farmhand each pre-order sale gets its own deadline and pickup, and you see how many of each you’ve sold. Workshop tickets and holiday gift cards sell from the same shop.

  • Order aheadFish, whole and half hogs, heritage turkeys and plants, each with its own close date.
  • WorkshopsTickets, check-in and reminders, the way Millsap Farms runs its Pizza Nights.
  • Gift cardsLive on Farmhand now, with an optional bonus much like your 10%.
Farm shop with a pre-order sale banner and pre-order badges
A pre-order sale in the shop. Shakefork Community Farm.
Event detail page with ticket tiers
Event tickets. Millsap Farms.
Shop banner offering a farm gift card with a bonus
Holiday gift cards with a bonus offer

Your site and your voice stay yours

In 2024 you told Ari you like your Squarespace site and want everything to sound like Red Shirt. So the site stays, and its Join the CSA button points to your Farmhand sign-up. The member emails and texts go out in your words.

Members get one email from you with how to log in.

Moves to Farmhand

CSA sign-up
FormFarmhand
CSA payment
Square, 3% card feeCard or bank
Confirmations
By handAutomatic
Member balances
On each member’s account
Order ahead and workshops
Farmhand shop and Events

Stays as it is

Website
Squarespace
The rest of the store
Your Square register
Crop plan and books
Heirloom and QuickBooks

A farm store CSA like yours, already on Farmhand

Stillman’s Farm in New Braintree runs an à la carte CSA on Farmhand, and Old Souls Farm runs the walk-up counter. Ari can put you in touch with either to hear how it’s gone.

Stillman's Farm CSA vegetables
Stillman’s Farm, New Braintree

What it costs

Business is the plan for a farm that keeps its own website: CSA sign-up and accounts, preorders, events, and email and text to your members.

Farmhand Business
$80 a month
Farmhand service fee
3% of online sales
Card processingBoth fees can be passed to members at checkout
4% card, 1% ACH
Your website
Stays on Squarespace
Switching
No contract or setup fee

A back officefor the farm store.

You and the crew run the fields, the kitchen and the counter. Farmhand takes the sign-ups, the balances, the preorders and the member inbox.

  1. CSA accounts

    Every member’s balance on their account, rung up at the counter and visible to them.

  2. Sign-up and payment

    Four levels, two start dates, card or bank, and confirmations sent for you.

  3. Order ahead

    Fish, hogs, turkeys and plants, each with its own deadline and count.

  4. Workshops

    Tickets, check-in and reminders from the same shop.

  5. Gift cards

    Holiday gift cards with a bonus, live now.

  6. Members answered

    Our team answers your members seven days a week, in your voice.

Same counter.Nothing to look up.

Ari would love to walk you through it on a 20-minute call: how the counter works, what moves to Farmhand and what stays exactly as it is.

Talk it through with AriText Ari
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